# Telestream

> Telestream sells the software, cloud services, and measurement hardware behind video production and delivery. Its portfolio spans Vantage workflow automation, cloud media processing, quality control, captioning, archives, live production, and desktop tools including Wirecast and ScreenFlow, serving broadcasters, sports organizations, production teams, enterprises, educators, and creators worldwide.

- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Nevada City, United States
- **Founders:** Dan Castles (Co-founder and founding CEO; Executive Chair from July 2026), Shawn Carnahan (Co-founder and former Chief Technical Officer)
- **Products:** Vantage, Vantage Cloud, UP, Wirecast, ScreenFlow
- **Notable:** Founded in 1998 and serving international media operations for more than 25 years., Company reports profitability since 2001 in its 2026 corporate fact sheet., Encoding.com became Telestream’s 13th acquisition in May 2022.

## Products & services

- **Vantage** — Media processing and workflow orchestration for transcoding, ingest, QC, captions, metadata, archives, and delivery; supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
- **Vantage Cloud** — Cloud-based media processing that extends Vantage workflows and processing capacity.
- **UP** — Modular cloud SaaS for capture, ingest, review, workflow design, and multiviewer monitoring. Listed Starter base price begins at USD 300/month, with additional usage charges.
- **Wirecast** — Live production and streaming software with switching, remote guests, graphics, recording, and sports production features.
- **ScreenFlow** — Screen recording and video editing software for Mac.
- **Qualify** — Automated file quality control for media workflows.
- **Stanza** — Captioning and subtitling software with speech-to-text capabilities.
- **DIVA** — Content archive management, metadata, and policy-based media movement.
- **PRISM** — Waveform monitoring for SDI, IP, SDR, HDR, and hybrid production environments.
- **Pulse** — Software-defined test and measurement platform for IP production workflows.
- **EDC** — Encoding.com cloud media processing technology in the Telestream cloud portfolio.
- **Vantage Super Resolution** — NVIDIA-powered SD/HD upscaling announced in September 2026, with release planned for Q4 2026 on specified GPU-equipped Lightspeed servers.

## Achievements

- Founded in 1998 and serving international media operations for more than 25 years.
- Company reports profitability since 2001 in its 2026 corporate fact sheet.
- Encoding.com became Telestream’s 13th acquisition in May 2022.
- Pulse received the 2026 NAB Product of the Year award in Monitoring and Measuring.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Introduced Surveyor mABR monitoring for multicast adaptive bitrate delivery on September 10.
- **2026-09** — Announced NVIDIA-powered Vantage Super Resolution on September 2; release planned for Q4 2026.
- **2026-08** — Announced ScorePlay sports media workflow partnership on August 19.
- **2026-07** — Benjamin Desbois became CEO effective July 1; Dan Castles transitioned to Executive Chair.
- **2026-04** — Pulse won a NAB Product of the Year award; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support expanded.
- **2026-03** — Introduced the UP cloud services platform on March 11.

## Links

- Website: https://www.telestream.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/telestream/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/telestream
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/telestreamtube
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/telestream/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TelestreamInc

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Last updated: 2026-10-17