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What is the difference between video on demand and streaming?

Live video streaming is a great way to draw public attention to your content. In order to increase the brand’s popularity streaming the most interesting parts of the working set at your company is live streaming. Here one can easily enable public scrutiny and easily create demand for a new product or work before its launching on the market.

Video-on-demand is a completely opposite service to live streaming. On-demand service helps users to watch videos from any internet-connected device at any convenient time of the user. It aims mainly for providing educational and entertaining content and tutorials. But with this service, making live chat, creating surveys or polls, and questioning and answering are possible.

What is the difference between OTT and VoD?

OTT- the over-the-top, refers to any service that used satellite or cable transmits previously but is presently using the internet. OTT can include a large number of services that we use on a regular basis such as live streaming, Whatsapp, Skype, and Netflix. OTT has become more popular especially in the world of videos because it perfectly interacts with VOD.

Video-on-demand is actually the Godfather of Online Video. The main aim of this service is to watch a video whenever you want. It is just the opposite of broadcast television programming. Whenever you are free and wish to watch a video, you can take the help of this service and you do not need to follow the broadcaster's schedule. BBC player and YouTube are great examples of VoD.

What is an OTT service provider?

Over-the-top service provider means any type of video or streaming media and it provides viewer access to watch TV shows or movies by sending the media through the internet. Popular OTT service providers include Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Netflix. But YouTube is a popular VoD provider. There are presently 40 OTT service providers in India.

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube and among so many other things, modern people have found their ways of entertainment. Watching movies has gotten a new direction with OTT. Learning something has become truly easy and time-saving with VoD these days.