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About SnapStream

SnapStream is a broadcast capture, indexing, and clipping platform that government teams operate directly on their own first-party or third-party broadcast sources to create their own original recordings.

SnapStream can be deployed in a SnapStream-managed AWS cloud environment or on-premise customer-managed infrastructure an agency controls. SnapStream is a DIRECTV and IPTV reseller and also offers an additional Source Acquisition concierge service providing custom recording and capture solutions.

Each SnapStream deployment is customized to create original first-party or third-party recordings as required and as informed by the customer's actual mission, specific use cases, applicable legal authorizations, and mandates.

With SnapStream, customers determine their own IPR posture by recording required content directly, drawing on time-shifting and fair-use doctrines supported by relevant US case law. This first-party recording approach differentiates SnapStream from other video search providers that must explicitly restrict what their subscribers can do with the content they aggregate and restribute. Such restrictions include lower quality video, arbitrary clip length limitations, or explicit prohibitions on re-sharing content. Entire TV networks like Fox News Channel can become unavailable on a given video search service as a result of legal action (see: Fox News Network, LLC v. TVEyes, Inc.).

Government Use Cases

Government communications. Agency communications teams set keyword alerts across every captured source and can immediately retrieve timestamped clips the moment coverage of leadership, programs, or policy mentions airs, ready to circulate to senior staff in minutes.

Public affairs. Briefing stakeholders, engaging press lists, and developing talking points are all tasks that can draw directly from on-air coverage the agency has already captured and indexed.

Press operations. Floor speeches, committee hearings, and on-air interviews are captured live, clipped by selecting a transcript range, and pushed to press contacts via login-free permalinks that open in any browser.

Crisis monitoring and response. Multi-channel parallel capture during a breaking event gives communications and operations staff a unified view across sources in real time. Scrub back in time to identify key moments. Clips flow into operations centers, officer inboxes, and public-information products alongside existing narrative sitreps, sent via the same distribution channels the agency already uses.

Live event capture and clip distribution. Organizations running their own events, press conferences, or legislative sessions auto-record and transcribe live streams via RTMP or HLS ingest, search transcripts, and push edited clips to press, social, and stakeholder lists, all while the event is still running.

Social-media audience engagement. Broadcast moments of principals and spokespersons are clipped and posted to verified agency channels minutes after air. The verbatim transcript is available immediately for adapting as caption copy.

A customer's SnapStream instance can be configured to run 24/7 multi-source capture across cable, broadcast, satellite, RTMP, and HLS feeds. Every recording is time-coded against live closed captions or machine-generated transcripts. This enables instant full-text search within each video and across the archive by name, keyword, phrase, source, program, or date range.

Integration Points

  • Export to your existing cloud storage: AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, Box.com, Dropbox, Google Drive, SFTP, etc.
  • Distribute to social: Send to YouTube, Facebook, X, Bluesky directly or crop to 9x16 for download and use in Instagram or TikTok
  • Use with your entire team: Slack, email, bookmarks, playlists, and approval queues
  • Drop into non-linear editors: Download industry-standard mp4 clips for use in Avid, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro

SnapStream bridges broadcast sources to the tools the customer's team already uses. SnapStream embraces and extends your current live video workflows rather than replacing them.

Government Customer deployments

Federal deployments include the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), the US Department of State, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Federal Reserve Board. Congressional deployments include the Senate Democratic Conference (SDMC) and the Senate Republican Conference (SRC). State and local deployments include the New York State Assembly (NYSA) and the Los Angeles County Executive Office. International deployments include the Privy Council Office of Canada, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and World Economic Forum (WEF) international conferences that use SnapStream to capture, transcribe, and distribute their own live event coverage. Additional deployments span state governors' offices, city executives, law enforcement agencies, and military installations.