IBM Cloud Video

IBM Watson Media (formerly Ustream and IBM Cloud Video) is an American virtual events platform company which is a division of IBM. Prior to the IBM acquisition, it had more than 180 employees across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Budapest offices. Ustream had received $11.1 million in Series A funding for new product development from Doll Capital Management (DCM) and investors Labrador Ventures and Band of Angels.

IBM Watson Media
Type of site
Video streaming
Available inEnglish, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Korean
OwnerIBM
URLibm.com/watson/media
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedMarch 2007 (2007-03)
Current statusActive
Native client(s) oniOS, Android

Since 2016, it has been a division of IBM. On April 1, 2018, two years after its purchase, Ustream changed its name to IBM Cloud Video to reflect its new ownership, but rapidly changed that name to IBM Watson Media to reflect the embedded artificial intelligence capabilities of IBM's Watson.

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