Connecting Families With Their Graduates

Cleveland, Ohio,  April 16, 2009 — Webcast Group, Inc.(www.webcastgroup.com)  a leading provider in the webcasting industry has announced a Spring 2009 “Commencement Webcast Special”.  The webcasting service offers high quality, affordable streams of your commencement ceremony’s for those that can not attend this occasion in person, but want to watch it live.

“We understand that commencements are very joyous occasions to be a part of and want to make going to a commencement as easy as possible for those that may be unable to attend.  That is why we created this Spring 2009 special, keeping families connected with our high quality services.” Said Ray Harris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Webcast Group. “The high quality event webcasts that we produce are easy to use and literally only take a single click to access”.

The company has announced three packages starting at $695.

Details on the packages and a brochure are available at:  http://www.webcastgroup.com/commencement-webcasting.asp

The $695 package (A) requires the client send an encoded stream to the company.  Features include:
- Live 4 Hour Stream with 500 Viewers
- Custom branded player and landing page
- Viewer Technical Support
- 3 months of replay services

The $995 package (B) also requires the client to send an encoded stream and includes:
- Live 8 Hour Stream with 500 Viewers
- Guest book registration
- Viewer shout box (moderated)
- Detailed viewer reports

The $1995 package (C) includes an on-site producer to create the encoded stream and includes:
- Everything in $995 package (B) included
- On-site producer with encoding equipment
- Travel costs are extra

The company states that most live stream providers only deliver a stream URL and not a complete experience.  The Webcast Group Galaxy platform is an integrated platform that combines commercial CDN streaming with Enterprise class web services wrapped around the stream to provide branding, registration, exit forms, polling and numerous other interactive capabilities.

To learn more about the Webcast Group’s Spring 2009 Commencement specials, please visit our website

(http://www.webcastgroup.com/commencement-webcasting.asp). For more details or with questions please contact our sales team at: 440-673-7777.

About Webcast Group, Inc.

Webcast Group provides managed and semi-managed event webcasting and managed webinars built on their Galaxy webcasting platform.  The Galaxy platform is an advanced web based application for the creation, management, replay and reporting of live webcasts.  For more information on the Webcast Group, please visit us at: http://www.webcastgroup.com  and “Go Green” with webcasting.

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New Do It Yourself (DIY) Service Expanding Webcast Group’s Offerings

Cleveland, Ohio- February 3, 2009 – Webcast Group, Inc.(www.webcastgroup.com) a leading provider in the webcasting industry today announced the launch of their new Do It Yourself (DIY) service.

With the new service, Webcast Group has given their clients the ability to send an encoded feed directly to the Webcast Group system, with zero downloads and zero installations. Webcast Group’s clients are able to keep total control of their own webcast event in three easy steps:

Those steps include:
1. Send the Webcast Group your encoded stream.
2. Use the Webcast Group Platform to: Create. Control. Replay. Report. on your event.
3. Produce a high quality viewer experience.

While other companies offer self-serve products, their product pale in comparison to Webcast Group’s Do It Yourself (DIY) system. The Webcast Group’s Do It Yourself (DIY) service encompasses all of the elements of their Create. Control. Replay. Report. webcasting model.

Some of those features include:
- Fully customizable Registration and full Reporting system
- Player Branding
- Event Mangement
- Producer monitored
- Presenter Driven Control Room system for slides and audience Q&A
- Full Technical Support

“When using the new Do It Yourself (DIY) service, you keep the managed look and feel that our clients have become so familiar with” said Shirley Shepherd, President of the Webcast Group. “We still provide our clients on the Do It Yourself (DIY) service all the attention they have grown to expect and certainly deserve. We have carried over our entire product concept of our Create. Control. Replay. Report. platform with the bells and whistles.” Shepherd also said, “This new option advances the scope of Webcast Group’s overall services. We are confident that our clients will reap considerable cost benefits without loosing any quality or reliability. In today’s economy, our Do It Yourself (DIY) platform is a win-win and we see this as an exciting solution to numerous webcasting needs.”

The new Do It Yourself (DIY) service starts at: $695 per event (prices vary based on length and the number of viewers). Elevate your webcasts with a quality and professional webcast event, at an affordable price by using the Webcast Group for your next event.

To request more information on the new Do It Yourself (DIY) service, please contact the Webcast Group by emailing us at: sales@webcastgroup.com or call: 866-260-4639, we look forward to assisting you with your next event.

About Webcast Group, Inc.
Webcast Group is an innovative webcast and webinar service provider that fits the communication needs of companies and organizations large and small. Our managed services save clients time and money while delivering their events to a global audience. The Webcast Group offers an integrated system that incorporates: registration, reporting, branding and a 1 click launch technology. Webcast Group has produced thousands of successful webcasts and is unsurpassed in the industry. For more information on the Webcast Group, please visit us at: http://www.webcastgroup.com and “Go Green” with webcasting.
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With the expansion of our services to now accommodate both Windows Media Player and Adobe’s Flash Player, you may be wondering which solution is best for you? But the big question may be, which one would work best for your event? With that said, it is a good time to focus in on the advantages of using Flash for your next video event webcast.

Now, for some background on the way our system is integrated with Adobe Flash Player: Flash is an Adobe product that is installed on 99.3% of consumer desktops. In addition to a very significant installed base, Flash also supports more platforms than other video formats with support for PCs running Windows and Vista, Macs running OSX and even most Linux distributions. Simply stated, Flash is the most compatible format for video in the consumer market.

Our new Do It Yourself (DIY) service is based on live Flash. We felt strongly that a DIY service needs to be easy for our clients to produce and easy for their viewers to access and watch. By basing our DIY service on Live Flash we have met our goals of ease of use for producers, ease of access for viewers, great quality and superb reliability and compatibility.

So when should you use Flash versus Windows Media?
Live Flash with it’s extensive installed base at the consumer level and broad compatibility is becoming the format of choice for consumer events, political events and entertainment. Windows media rules the corporate and enterprise environments and is often the only media player installed in a corporate, managed desktop environment. So, we feel Windows Media is best for corporate events and live Flash is best for everything else.

We are adding live Flash to our weekly line up of live demonstrations. See our web site for details and times when you can watch our live demos and see first hand what a great user experience we deliver with our advanced webcast platform and live services.

Dialing into a conference call can be a daunting task, when you know you will be holding a phone to your ear for at least 45 minutes. As Q&A time comes along, the questions can go on and on… Why not turn your next conference call + web seminar into a managed webinar with the Webcast Group where both are combined? By having a collaborative event, instead of just a humdrum run of the mill, phone to your ear web seminar, you will engage your audience and make them feel like they are in the room with you…

Being engaged on a webinar where you are hearing the audio through your computer speakers, watching presenter controlled slides and engaging in polls, surveys and answering questions through out the event can be fun! It breaks up the monotony of a work day with an interactive and fun technology that is still considered work.

Do you want to hold a conference call/web seminar or a collaborative meeting that we manage for you? There are a lot of service providers selling their services as webinars, they offer cheap entry level prices that quickly turn into exorbitantly high event rates, all while doing it yourself. Plus, those service providers are not giving you the best options for holding an event where viewers come away with a “good viewer” experience. Our webinar service will drive your message home and will deliver the most professional events online with the best possible prices, event manager, producers and features available.

Next time you are on an event, think of how great it would be to gather data from your attendees such as: registration details, polling results, exit survey information and much more… Make life simple, stand out from the crowds with a managed webinar that says look at me and what we can do. With management comes success, with success comes a stellar viewer experience like no other, just what you get with the Webcast Group!

Edgecast CDN Adding to the Superiority of the Webcast Group’s Services

Rocky River, Ohio- December 10, 2008 – Webcast Group, Inc.(www.webcastgroup.com) a leading provider in the webcasting industry is proud to announce their partnership with EdgeCast Networks (www.edgecast.com), the superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives their customers competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. This partnership will allow Webcast Group the ability to serve a more global audience with their already superior fully managed webcast technology and services.

Webcast Group and Edgecast both wish to give clients a service advantage unprecedented in the industry. In webcasting – much like the CDN space -, clients and their viewers are the most important part of each event. The webcasts need to reach viewers all across the globe and give them all the same positive experience. With the Webcast Group’s choice to use the Edgecast CDN, with its global footprint, high speed streaming and content delivery service, viewers everywhere – whether in Sydney, Paris or Los Angeles – all will experience the same jitter-free video and crystal clear audio.

“Webcast Group’s partnership with Edgecast provides the reliability that is necessary when corporations depend on us to get their message out using our webcasting services” said Shaun Collins, vice president of information technology at the Webcast Group. “The EdgeCast partnership enables us to become more scalable and dependable and fits the needs of our growing list of clients and their viewers who depend on us to provide a seamless, positive process and always provide a stellar viewer experience. Our focus is on delivering perfect events” said Collins. “We are a leader within the industry of managed webcasts, and have a dependable track record that Edgecast adds to.”

The webcasting technology is a dependable way to get out your company’s message with minimal time and travel. With the combination of EdgeCast’s CDN and the Webcast Group’s services, viewers can:
- Participate from anywhere in the world
- Have a positive viewing experience
- Receive a more cost effective webcast solution
- Have multiple platform (Windows Media and Flash) compatibility

To learn more about the Webcast Group’s reliable webcasting services (www.webcastgroup.com) and EdgeCast’s (www.edgecast.com) cost-effective global content delivery services, please visit their websites.

About EdgeCast Networks, Inc.

EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our customers and partners competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Our world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while freeing them from capital investments and operational hassles. To learn more, visit www.edgecast.com.

About Webcast Group, Inc.
Webcast Group is an innovative webcast and webinar service provider that fits the communication needs of companies and organizations large and small. Our managed services save clients time and money while delivering their events to a global audience. The Webcast Group offers an integrated system that incorporates: registration, reporting, branding and a 1 click launch technology. Webcast Group has produced thousands of successful webcasts and are unsurpassed in the industry. For more information on the Webcast Group, please visit us at: http://www.webcastgroup.com and “Go Green” with webcasting.

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