mogulus-logoOne of the many Steaming services out there includes Mogulus and this allows you to broadcast live video to many people at once the internet. On this review – we shall try and go though some of the reasons why Mogulus stands over and above the other streaming services out there, what it has to offer and touch on the advertising side such as adverts on your stream.

The interface seemed to me quite complicated to fully understand what it was all about and what this service is trying to do is both dispense with 3rd party software to add various effects as well as give TV like qualities over the production part. You can build up your library of video footage from various places such as YouTube, podcasting and your own library on your computer. This gives you a selection of pre-made video content such as Adverts for example or a pre-recorded part of your show.

The other very cool aspect is the ability to log in on various computers with a Webcam and have them all show up on the master console – this allows you to switch to a different View and/or person as requested by placing it in the Queue. I tested this part out and I was hoping that one single Microphone might be used (the streaming computer) but it switched inputs as I moved around the Camera’s.

As for the recording Part – there is only so many hours allowed on the Free account – talking of which this is now broken into 3 different area’s:

** Free but not Authenticated as follows:

To begin, effective February 23, 2009, all UNVERIFIED Mogulus Free channels will be limited to an audience of 50 concurrent viewers and will not be listed at www.mogulus.com. If you apply and we verify your channel before or after February 23, your channel will support unlimited concurrent viewers and will continue to appear on the Mogulus channel guide.

** Free & Authenticated – unlimited users but adverts etc.

** Pro Account:

1 Pro Channel – 25GIG Month Storage, 25Gig Month Bandwidth – $350 Month

10 Pro Channels – 200GIG month, 200 GIG Month Bandwidth – $1250 Month

It allows you th host to specify what section your channel fits in and in turn people can actually find you by looking in the right section. The Quality is very good, its a Shame the chat is not IRC Server based and not good to manage – but the rest is fine.

If you combined a Few machines logged in, some Software such as Camtwist plsu some pre-recorded show content, no reason why you could not make a very good show.