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.

Ustream was launched when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable and Gyula Fehér) wanted a way for their friends in the US Army, who were deployed overseas in the Iraq War, to be able to communicate with their families.

Notable companies/universities/other who have used IBM Cloud Video include Salesforce, University of Pennsylvania Wharton, Herman Miller, Mazda, US Open, Fox Sports (United States) World Cup, USA Network: Mr.

Other features not included due to being the same in all plans include HD transcoding, phone and chat support with a live monitoring console, video embed control and API access, channel branding, passwords and a registration gate, a chat, Q&A, polling and clickable video overlays, an automatic archive with AI closed captions, and simulated live and playlists.

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".