A few minutes with Seacoast Church Monday, October 09, 2006

Seacoast Church, lead by Sr. Pastor Greg Surratt, has been an active Light Cast Media customer for over 6 months. Five of those months were during an exclusive "alpha" testing and development phase where Light Cast Media worked with Seacoast and a few other clients to improve our core technology, build out tools and develop a complete understanding of what the mediaSTREAM product should look like. During this process, Shawn Wood, Creative Communications Pastor has been at the forefront of this relationship, and I wanted to spend a few minutes sharing a conversation with him.

Light Cast Media.
Shawn, what did your streaming media efforts look like before Light Cast Media?

Shawn:
 "We were hosting our own streams and using Windows Media player. The buffering time and quality were something that our IT director and myself were not happy with. We were looking at some in-house fixes when the alpha opportunity with Light Cast Media came. After looking at the product and the pricing structure we had an immediate...yes."

Light Cast Media.
Explain some of the challenges or problems that you were having.

Shawn:
"Slow load times, stalls and buffering when multiple people were watching. We also just did not like the look of the interface and were planning on a flash solution to help with that as well."

Light Cast Media:
How has Light Cast Media helped or improved those problems?

Shawn:
"I think that we have one of the best streaming experiences on the web today - church and and business sector."

Light Cast Media:
Shawn, when it comes to Streaming or any technology Seacoast looks at, what is important to you guys, and has Light Cast met your expectations or not?

Shawn:
"Met and surpassed with both product and service. During the alpha test our IT director has been able to help play a role in what Light Cast will look like and you guys have been awesome!"

Light Cast Media:
What significant "ministry" impact have you seen Light Cast Media offer?

Shawn:
"I am not getting the calls from people about the experience anymore. Also, we have been able to offer more video streams (i.e. ministry promos) in addition to the weekend messaged and not have to worry about the experience suffering."

Light Cast Media:
Lets talk money! I know that people look at your church, and the amount of campuses that you have and think your budget is huge for this type of stuff. Bottom line, are you happy with the cost of Light Cast Media's offering?

Shawn:
"Video streaming was costing us zero tangible dollars prior to Light Cast Media, but money is not the only true measure of costs. It was costing us in other areas that we could not afford to pay - our experience. However, that sounds good on paper, but there are still budget constraints and Light Cast Media has made it affordable to churches to get the best streaming that is available. There is no other company that even comes close to competing with the quality for this price."

Light Cast Media:
What's next for Seacoast? Maybe something technology related or anything that you can think of.

Shawn:
"We have some digital discipleship areas that are certainly going to be innovative and we think pretty monumental in the next 12 months or so...you can look for more info on Shawnsblogspot.com"

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