TV monitoring software that just works

Why break the bank buying TV clips for your organziation? Find anything said on TV with SnapStream: the only TV monitoring solution that lets you record, search, archive and clip unlimited TV content, right from your Mac or PC. (Yes, we now have Mac support!) The real beauty of SnapStream is that it's all on your own terms, under your roof and under your command. You own the hardware and you control the TV recordings. Start with the Small Business Edition or scale up with a SnapStream Cluster to blanket TV with 24-7 recordings. No matter what, there are never any subscription fees.

Search TV in milliseconds

When you hit "search," SnapStream zips through a sophisticated index of the closed captioning data and program meta data to pull up your relevant results in milliseconds—so it feels easy and effortless. Simply type in a keyword of interest, click the program you want to watch, then bam, you're dropped smack-dab in the context of the mention. Revel in knowing that you'll never again have to manually watch, fast-forward or scan to find anything said on TV.

Think of SnapStream as a DVR on steroids. Powerfully built with a fault-tolerant hard drive, the appliance lets you record and archive a limitless number of TV shows, if that's your goal. The smallest model records 4 channels at once with a solid 3TB base of storage (~ 3,400 hours) and the largest captures 10 channels with 30TB of storage (~34,000 hours). For scaled-up solutions, read below on clustering SnapStream appliances together.

Create and share unlimited TV clips

SnapStream puts news gathering and media monitoring technology at your fingertips. Create unlimited TV clips with the built-in clipping tool, which is now even easier to use! SnapStream 5.5 allows you to drag your start and end points for quicker and more accurate clipping. Then, you can download, e-mail, archive or burn the clip to DVD. We also offer the option to download the TV transcript—very helpful for referencing quotes and preparing media reports.

ShowSqueeze Live to WMV or H.264 NEW!

ShowSqueeze, the integrated transcoding engine, seamlessly converts SnapStream's native recording format of MPEG-2 to other video codecs, like WMV 7, WMV 9 and H.264. And now you can do it all while recordings are in progress, with ShowSqueeze Live. Using Worfklows, you can start to ShowSqueeze recordings, based on criteria like channel and category, the moment they hit the air. So when a broadcast ends, your file is ready to go, right where you want it.

SmartChapters appear as grey and white segments on the Web Player timeline to let you skip freely between programs and commercials. You can even filter your TV search results to include or exclude commercials. See the ad verification example to the right: we limited our search to mentions of "Swiffer" only within ads.

For public relations measurement or product placement tracking, you'd perform the opposite search, to find organic mentions of the brand Swiffer on news programs, TV shows and more.

With one ShowSqueeze Node, you can generate SmartChapters for 10 channels of analog TV being recorded 24/7 at Best Quality.

Rely on TV Alerts to monitor the news

Hang on the first word of breaking news with SnapStream TV Alerts. Set up e-mail alerts to receive updates on the topics, people, events and issues that matter to you most. With push notifications, you won't have to repeat the same routine keyword search every day. When you're at your PC, click to play the TV search result right from the e-mail. On the go with your smartphone? You'll love the convenience of getting timely notifications right to your inbox. Plus, choose your preferred messaging frequency: as it happens, daily, weekly, and so on.

Access your TV Library over the LAN

Stream live or recorded TV content across your network to share the rich information found in broadcast media. For school libraries and media centers, SnapStream works wonderfully to spread educational content school-wide and bring timely current events into classrooms.

Foolproof tested and IT approved

We're happy to tell you that SnapStream installs quickly and requires minimal upkeep. As an enterprise-class solution, SnapStream comes turnkey, with layers of redundancy and security to handle all of your TV monitoring tasks with reliability and ease. Everything connects over your local area network, so it's no muss, no fuss to get SnapStream up and running in minutes.

Your TV monitoring operation may start small, but what will happen when you're ready to grow up? Thanks to SnapStream's new clustering technology, you can easily expand your solution any which way by mixing and matching nodes. Go any direction: Record a limitless number of TV channels, archive years worth of TV content, transcode bulk batches of TV files simultaneously, or do it all! With multiple SnapStream nodes combined, you'll still log into one simple interface to manage them all. And the best part is, all TV remains consistently searchable across the board.

Customizable TV monitoring

The SnapStream API allows you to customize your TV monitoring experience by allowing you to create custom workflows quickly and easily. The best part is that the API is free and available to any current SnapStream customer.

Who's the ideal SnapStream user?

For organizations who strategically rely on television, SnapStream provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for TV media monitoring. Our hybrid DVR-search engine improves accessibility to the rich data contained in television and readily fits into any workflow you can imagine.