🆚 Castr vs. TikTok
Castr
TikTokType
About
Castr is a cloud-based live video streaming and hosting platform that provides multistreaming and transcoding.
It provides multistreaming to over 30 destinations, including 
YouTube, 
Facebook, and 
Twitch, multi-CDN delivery, RTMP and SRT ingest, live-to-VOD recording, paywall and instream ad monetization, and pre-recorded streaming that broadcasts a scheduled video file as a live stream.
TikTok is a Chinese social media platform focused on short-form videos that combines content creation, recommendation-driven discovery, and social interaction in a mobile-first interface.
It allows users to record and edit videos with filters, effects, music, and AI-powered tools, broadcast live streams, browse personalized "For You" feeds driven by recommendation algorithms, interact through comments and direct messages, and sell products through integrated TikTok Shop e-commerce features.
Headquarters
Pricing
(2 streams, 6 multistream destinations) $19.99/month
(2 streams, 10 multistream destinations) $49.99/month
(5 streams, 20 multistream destinations) $199.99/month
(10 streams, 30 multistream destinations) $349.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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ByteDance company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,861,081 websites. However, data for Castr is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.