Streaming Video for Houses of Worship
Religious organizations can now ensure their ministry is more accessible to congregants through live and on-demand video streaming. With the ever-growing number of individuals connected online and able to access high-quality video content remotely, places of worship can help share their mission and message whenever, wherever, and however audiences view streaming content.
- Live or on-demand streaming of sermons
- Service capture to spread the message globally
- Live streaming of religious studies
- Broadcasts of a 24/7 linear TV channel
- Machine learning for auto-transcription and translation
Solutions guide: Media for religious organizations
With the required technology becoming more mainstream and accessible, houses of worship are now investing in video streaming to include the digital-first, those requiring accessibility features such as the hearing impaired, and those who can’t physically attend services.
AWS provides cost-effective, powerful, and easy-to-use media solutions for religious organizations to spread their ministry globally.
Learn about AWS and partner solutions you can deploy to stream live and on-demand video for religious organizations, and view best practices from several houses of worship case studies.
Providers
The following providers deliver solutions which enable your organization to stream live and on-demand video quickly, reliably, securely, and at scale.
StreamSpot and Subsplash provide complete solutions for churches including apps, websites, offering/donation capabilities, and media content management. StreamSpot’s streaming solution for churches enables unlimited live and on-demand streaming with no resolution or viewer caps, allowing for simulcasting to Internet-connected devices.
Rivet Logic’s live video portal with real-time tithing enables houses of worship to deliver live and on-demand streaming of services and bible studies in a fully-managed, end-to-end solution with minimal technical knowledge. Built on AWS and integrated with Stripe and Tithe.ly, the portal enables unlimited concurrent viewers both to attend and to tithe online in a simple interface.
StreamShark‘s live streaming platform enables streaming from WebRTC devices such as webcams and Internet-enabled cameras to mobile and social media channels. Additional capabilities include live-to-VOD, live DVR, embeddable chat, live clipping, a built-in teleprompter tool, digital rights management (DRM)/encryption, and single sign-on (SSO).
Insys white label OTT solutions are for organizations that want to stream branded live and on-demand content to web, mobile, and over the top (OTT) channels. Features include automated VOD archival of live content as well as cloud digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities in a turnkey OTT solution.
Crafter Software provides customizable, scalable, multiscreen live and on-demand OTT video experiences via a video content management system (CMS) in a headless environment, including versioning and auditing, content modeling, DRM, and single sign-on integration.
Nomad CMS uses AWS machine learning services in its cloud-based content and asset management solution. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is combined with Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Translate, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Textract services to provide automated content discovery, tagging, translation, and transcription.
Kaltura Video Cloud for Businesses enriches a variety of use cases with video, including corporate communication, knowledge sharing, learning and development and sales and marketing. Additionally, the Kaltura’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering leverages Kaltura’s open API and “Plug and Play” architecture to allow developers and product managers to build video workflows into their products.
LTN Global’s Live Video Cloud (previously Make.tv) is a cloud-native, browser-based platform that enables broadcasters and producers to acquire concurrent live feeds, curate them in a single continuous playback multi-view, and deliver them across broadcast networks and social media platforms. This enables essential news organizations to run ‘business, as usual’ while working remotely.
Grabyo’s browser based platform provides live cloud production for digital, social and OTT along with live clipping, video editing and distribution. Capabilities include live switching between feeds, remote guest commentary, enhanced production with graphic overlays, social interaction, ad breaks and more.
Arc Publishing’s Video Center is an online video platform with the ability to reach viewers on all channels (web, social, native & OTT apps) with both on-demand and live video, including live video clipping, live-to-VOD, live streaming directly from your phone via the Broadcast iOS app, FCC-compliant closed captioning and server-side digital ad insertion.
Use cases
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Interactive live streaming
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Live event streaming
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Video on-demand
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Interactive live streaming
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Interactive live streaming
Deploying low-latency interactive live video is simple with the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS). With just a few clicks, any religious organization can create and stream live video to a website or native iOS or Android application with the Amazon IVS player SDK. Enhance the video stream with interactive capabilities such as chat, Q&A, and polling using timed metadata APIs.
Related products
Related resources
Blog: Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites
The AWS news blog walks through a deployment of the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS).
Webcast: AWS What's Next Ep.8: featuring Amazon IVS
In this video, watch the team discuss and deploy a live video stream using the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) via the AWS console.
Workshop: Live Streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service
This self-paced workshop walks through a step-by-step deployment of a live video stream using the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) via the AWS console.
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Live event streaming
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Live event streaming
Whether an event is a sermon, study of religious scriptures, or an annual convention, streaming video content to any device is simple with AWS Elemental Media Services and Amazon CloudFront. Now you can deploy the Live Streaming on AWS solution with just one button and customize it to your needs.
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Webcast: Live video streaming (OTT) solution
This webcast shows specific ways OTT providers can use AWS Cloud services to take control of and get the most from video workflows.
Related blog posts
Read the latest blog postings related to video use and technologies for religious organizations.
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Video on-demand
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Video on-demand
Creating a video library of your religious service assets is now simplified with the Video On Demand on AWS Solution. Simply click one button to launch the template into your AWS account, upload your videos, and let AWS take care of the rest. You can even customize the workflow to fit your needs.
Related products
Related resources
Webcast: How to build a VOD solution
This webcast provides prescriptive guidance for building video-on-demand workflows on the AWS Cloud, which provisions the services needed for a scalable, distributed architecture that ingests, stores, processes, and delivers video content.
E-book: Video processing and delivery moves to the cloud
As video quality, accessibility, and utility skyrockets, how video providers create and deliver professional-grade video services changes dramatically. Learn about the benefits of moving video operations to the cloud, the pros and cons of conventional approaches, and tips for adapting to coming changes.
Related blog posts
Read the latest blog postings related to video use and technologies for religious organizations.
Case studies
Harvest Christian Fellowship
Harvest Christian Fellowship, an evangelistic ministry in the United States, wanted its messages to reach its congregation, satellite and affiliate churches, and a connected audience at high video quality. The organization was able to stream both live and on-demand sermons and events, garnering more than 200,000 online visitors to its annual outreach event. The effort required minimal technical knowledge and staff overhead.