improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this section contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message this article s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on wikipedia . see wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions . july 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message ustream type video streaming owner ibm website ustream.tv alexa rank 1 558 february 2015 update 1 registration optional available in english german hungarian japanese russian spanish and korean launched march 2007 current status active native client s on ios android ustream is a company founded in 2007 that provides video streaming services to more than 80 million viewers and broadcasters . it is based in san francisco and has more than 180 employees in their san francisco los angeles and budapest offices . company partners include panasonic samsung logitech cbs news pbs newshour viacom and img media . 2 it received 11.1 million in series a funding for new product development from dcm doll capital management and investors labrador ventures and band of angels . 3 it is owned by an american company of the same name ustream inc. based in san francisco california . ustream was one of the live game streaming services for sony s playstation 4 . 4 contents 1 history 2 paid service 3 automatic content blocking 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit ustream was born when the founders john ham brad hunstable and dr. gyula feher wanted a way for their friends in the army who were deployed overseas in iraq during the war to be able to communicate with their families . a product like ustream would provide them with a way to talk to all of their relatives at once when free time in the war zone was limited . 5 launching their public beta in march 2007 ustream is one of a series of live video sites including justin.tv livestream and bambuser . the company has seen significant growth in the political entertainment and technology fields . 6 ustream has witnessed many notable people streaming from politicians such as hillary clinton barack obama john edwards 7 to artists like tori amos and the plain white t s. 8 notable lifecasters such as ijustine and e tard the lifecaster 9 have made their mark on ustream as well . the technology community has also adopted ustream to include robert scoble leo laporte and chris pirillo . on january 21 2016 ibm acquired ustream . it will be combined with aspera clearleap and cleversafe to form ibm s cloud video unit . ibm envisioned the use of its technology as part of an enterprise video offering . 10 paid service edit ustream s basic service is free and supported by advertising revenue . a paid service called watershed was formerly available charging broadcasters on a per viewer basis and allowing either ad free service or broadcaster supplied advertisements . 11 in 2013 ustream phased out the watershed program for their pro broadcasting services based on monthly charges to broadcasters . 12 automatic content blocking edit ustream uses a copyright enforcement service provided by vobile which uses a proprietary fingerprinting system to automatically detect copyrighted content . 13 14 this system has been known to generate what are considered by some to be false positives blocking content that should fall under fair use or which has been specifically licensed by the stream originator . in one such incident the official livecast of the 2012 hugo award ceremony was terminated because it incorporated authorized clips of nominated television shows and movies causing a flood of livid twitter messages . the following day ustream apologized for the incident and temporarily disabled automatic blocking while they adjusted the system to better balance the needs of broadcasters viewers and copyright holders . 15 16 see also edit alphabetical order dacast justin.tv livestream stickam streamup tinychat younow youtube live yy references edit ustream.tv traffic details from alexa . alexa internet inc. retrieved 2013 04 22 . crunchbase ustream company profile crunchbase april 19 2013 cynopsis digital . april 14 2008 . ps4 gameplay can be broadcast via ustream profiles says ustream s david thompson . psu.com . june 18 2013 . webware merry christmas mom ustream links soldiers with home december 14 2007 ustream.tv experiences significant business growth ; company adds new ceo industry partners and thousands of users . businesswire.com . 2007 11 13 . retrieved 2010 08 23 . mark rizzn hopkins view comments 2007 11 26 . youtube and ustream go political . mashable.com . retrieved 2010 08 23 . brad hunstable founder november 16th 2007 2007 11 16 . the ustream.tv blog blog archive plain white t s event serves 130 000 . ustream.tv . retrieved 2010 08 23 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link e tard the 24 7 lifecaster . e tard.tv . september 5 2006 . retrieved november 4 2015 . ibm confirms acquisition of ustream forms new cloud video unit . techcrunch . retrieved 21 january 2016 . john ham founder february 17th 2009 2009 02 17 . the ustream.tv blog blog archive today ustream launches watershed . ustream.tv . retrieved 2010 06 02 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link ustream 2013 04 22 . looking for watershed you ve found something better . . ustream.tv . retrieved 2013 04 22 . hunstable brad 2010 07 16 . launch of improved measures to protect copyright holders and vobile integration . retrieved 2012 09 03 . vobile core technology . retrieved 2012 09 03 . ha anthony september 3 2012 ustream apologizes for shutting down the hugo awards livestream says it will recalibrate techcrunch gross doug september 4 2012 ustream apologizes for killing hugo awards webcast cnn external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ustream & oldid 727513034 categories internet television channelsvideo hostinginternet properties established in 2007ios softwareandroid operating system softwarehidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors listarticles with a promotional tone from august 2012all articles with a promotional tonewikipedia articles needing style editing from july 2011all articles needing style editingarticles containing potentially dated statements from february 2015all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal espa olfran ais italianomagyar portugu s simple englishsuomi edit links this page was last modified on 29 june 2016 at 13 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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