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#2What is the use case here?
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#3Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year (https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinued as a service, but that's just off of my quick 30 second glance. Stream and Lynda look like they both do pretty much the same thing, so Microsoft might be capitalizing on its own brand recognition to sell the underlying service to Microsoft shops.
I'm purely speculating, though. Is there anyone on the Stream team who can comment?
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#4What is the use case here?
It's Enterprise Youtube :-/
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#5What is the use case here?
Exactly what it says, which is providing a platform for companies to share videos for a variety of purposes. This was a topic of conversation at one of the companies I worked for, which is a large payroll service provider. The company has a series of offices distributed in many locations around the nation, and whenever a new training or motivational video was release, there was always a question of where to host it. Hosting it in the company's datacenter wouldn't work, as that would consume a lot of bandwidth, and building out a local CDN can be expensive if you don't want to rely on someone else.
Stream is basically providing an internal Youtube, a place where you can upload videos, control who access to them, and let Stream take care of routing, etc.
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#6Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year ( https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563 ), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinue…
Lynda provides a place for authors to upload training videos that can be accessed through a subscription. They are then paid royalties every time someone accesses the video. (At least, that's how Pluralsight works).
Stream allows companies to produce their own videos, for HR, training, and motivational purposes, and host it. Think of it as an internal YouTube.
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#7Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year ( https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563 ), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinue…
Lynda provides a place for authors to upload training videos that can be accessed through a subscription. They are then paid royalties every time someone accesses the video. (At least, that's how Pluralsight works). Stream allows companies to produce their own videos, for HR, training, and motivational purposes, and host it. Think of it as an internal YouTube.
Understood, but that doesn't necessarily detract from the possibility that this is an adaptation of the underlying tech stack.
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#8What is the use case here?
The demand is there.
Video content is 'difficult' for smaller to medium companies to manage and deliver. Some things are best taught through video.
You may be thinking in just a sense of an office, but this could be useful for Factories or other slightly skilled labour.
Add in basic messageboard/etc from a trusted brand, who most people already subscribe to with their OS and Software.
However the 'anyone' can upload, seems like an HR disaster waiting. And I suspect will quickly be turned off to a limited few to the few that use this service.
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#9What is the use case here?
It's Enterprise Youtube :-/
It's not really enterprise unless it's hooked into a corporate authentication system with policy controls and management capabilities. I'm puzzled why this isn't attached to Office365 for those reasons. The marketing page for it says that it's for companies, but the whole thing makes my inner MS admin twitch: self-sign up with no mention of SSO, docs are pitched as if it's a consumer product with no administrative features. There's no fee or obvious cross-sell, which means that Microsoft are just burning money right now for no obvious gain, which is uncharacteristic of them - they usually provide free stuff that promotes actual paid-for products.
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#10It seems like using unlisted videos with YouTube solves 99% of the use cases.