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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

3Play Media makes it easy to order transcriptions, and edit as necessary. I appreciate that you can download transcriptions in various formats and that you are not charged extra for adding specific instructions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

The pricing is higher than I thought it would be, and if you're transcribing a lot of material -- or longer form videos on a shorter timeframe, the prices can really add up. Additionally, only the account owner can see invoices, which makes it slightly difficult for other team members to track spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

3Play Media is a reliable service. While their transcriptions aren't always perfect, they make it easy to highlight areas where audio is unclear and edit where there might be mistakes. 3Play Media offers various services, at various speeds, and they make it quick and easy to submit an order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our team uses 3Play Media to help make our video content more accessible. We use them for transcription and audio description purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

3Play Media Overview

What is 3Play Media?

We help our customers create compliant, accessible, and engaging videos, offering a range of services including closed captioning, live captioning, audio description, and translation. We serve more than 10,000 customers and process more than 7,000 hours of videos each month. Our goal is to make video accessibility easy, flexible, and scalable for our customers and aim to simplify video compliance processes by focusing on future-proofing, scalability, and automation. We provide a user-friendly platform, flexible workflows, custom APIs, and integrate seamlessly with a multitude of video players, platforms, and lecture capture systems. Our video search plugins and suite of tools save time and cut costs. We’ve designed a seamless, fuss-free experience for our customers. Implementation is fast, requires minimal training, and can easily be provisioned for additional users and departments at any time. Everything is web-based and there is no software to install. Our commitment to innovation has led to 8 patents (granted and pending)–all of which focus on making our processes more efficient and less expensive. We have won numerous awards, including the 2016 Reader’s Choice Award for best Closed Captioning Solution and ranked as the #1 closed captioning solution on G2 crowd.

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3Play Media provides a more technologically advanced and cost-effective captioning, audio description, and subtitling solution. We work with more than 2,000 customers across media & entertainment, enterprise and educational institutions. Our methods allow us to reduce the cost and simplify the process, while maintaining premium quality levels. We provide all major caption formats, efficient workflows, an API, and fast turnaround. 3Play Media was borne out of MIT in 2007 and operates in Boston, MA.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

When it comes to video compliance, we take special care to ensure our customers have peace of mind. We are dedicated to being our customers’ video accessibility advisor and provide all necessary services for what customers need now - and in the future.

3Play Media's secure, cloud-based, and user-friendly platform provides many capabilities for uploading, monitoring, downloading, and editing. We support large organizations with numerous users and allow for flexible billing, operational, technical, and reporting requirements.

Customers receive high-quality services rooted in forward-thinking innovation. With guaranteed 99% caption accuracy or higher, customers can always rest easy. We specialize in processing complex video content and have developed numerous technologies and trained our staff to achieve the best quality under all circumstances.

We offer a wide range of turnaround options, including a 2-hour turnaround for urgent projects. We have SLAs on quality, deadlines, and support: so customers can "set it and forget it."


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Year Founded
2008
HQ Location
Boston, US
Twitter
@3playmedia
3,528 Twitter followers
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614 employees on LinkedIn®

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hanne d.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Easy to use"
They are fast. Uploading videos is so easy & intuitive.
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Thaddeus N.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Wonderful for ADA Compliance on our website"
It saves all the account information and links directly to our YouTube channel (where I first upload the videos) so getting videos in the queue to ...
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4.0 out of 5
"Reliable and quick service, but can add up quickly"
3Play Media makes it easy to order transcriptions, and edit as necessary. I appreciate that you can download transcriptions in various formats and ...

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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

It saves all the account information and links directly to our YouTube channel (where I first upload the videos) so getting videos in the queue to be captioned is extremely easy and efficient. Turnaround time is quick as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

I don't really dislike anything about 3Play Media. It does a lot more things that we will ever need it to, so I suppose we can say that we don't use the full potential of the service so it is hard to commend on anything else other than captioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

If you want to easily and affordably caption online videos for ADA compliance, 3Play is the service to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are required to have any and all videos on our intitutional websites and YouTube Channels professionally captioned for ADA compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eric S.
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Describe the project or task 3Play Media helped with:

We continually send videos for captioning that we don't have time or workforce to complete in a timely fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about 3Play Media?

Quick turnaround, usually at 98-99% accuracy. The ease of use of the website is a great help and the ability to get the output in a variety of formats has come in handy more than once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

There have been a few missed deadlines and if a language other than English is requested for a dual language video, the English is disregarded. At least the English captioners made an attempt to caption the Spanish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

While I am not on the Accounts Payable side of things, 3Play seems to work well with our school on that end. We have used them for many years and will continue to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick turnaround of video captions, especially after the pandemic hit. All of our classes went online and there were a large number of students that needed captioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jenny C.
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Describe the project or task 3Play Media helped with:

We had last minute notice that a student with a hearing impairment needed and was going to use a video in his presentation. Of course the video that he located was not captioned. 3Play was able to caption it and with short turn around it was in the student's email well before his presentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about 3Play Media?

Customer Service at 3Play is responsive, efficient, and helpful. They will guide you through the process and are ready to jump in if something becomes confusing. I appreciate the fact that the customer has many different options for uploading videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

Some of the menus could be more intuitive. Like all software and services, there are periodic changes to the website which can be confusing at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

I would recommend visiting the site and learning about the process of submitting videos before you actually need the video. This will save time and you'll be able to upload the videos and make the request earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

With 3Play we can very quickly caption videos for our students. This company is great for providing last-minute requests of captioned videos. Their free webinars on ADA related issues are also informative and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erica D.
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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

Quick response turn around time. Typically, I can have my work captioned in a week or less, and I appreciate that they provide an expedited option for those times when we're working against tight deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

I find it inconvenient when videos are archived after a certain period. For instance, we previously added closed captions in English to a series of videos. A few years later, when we had the resources to add Spanish subtitles to the same videos, the process of unarchiving and making these changes proved to be challenging. I had to engage 3play customer support to assist in this task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

Accessibility is a universal best practice, and 3Play simplifies the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

3play provides a user-friendly platform for accessibility for our educational videos, catering to individuals with disabilities, their families, and the professionals involved in their lives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jesse K.
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Senior Manager, Digital Accessibility
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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

3Play Media has a simple and intuitive interface and dashboard(s). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

I encourage 3Play Media to one day do better integration with learning management systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

They definitely should be one of the vendors that you evaluate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

The need to caption and transcribe recorded and live events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

The ease of the user interface to submit orders, the quick turnaround times and the ability to rush requests. I really like how I am notified about everything in the account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

There is nothing that we dislike about 3Play Media. But we do wish the French translation would be cheaper outside of machine translations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

I would highly recomend 3Play if you are looking to solve accesibilty issues for public facing videos. Especially for those located in Canada and need to abide to the new AODA law. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

3Play media is helping us with solving our video accesibilty issues (AODA law, in Canada) by ensuring that all videos that are public facing has the accessibilty like closed captioning and transcripts to accompany the video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erick J.
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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

The variety of services is the best. Within a big business there are a diverse population of global employees. To have a large amount of offerings at a low price brings a lot of value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

I wish 3 Play had more instructions and user facing material to guide a user through the service 3 Play offers. When creating videos or subtitles, going over the various types of downloadable file types and their use cases for newer users needing captions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

3 Play allows users to choose from a myriad of transciption options. A key piece is the point of contact, if something is wrong, 3 Play will reach out and let your organization know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

What I like most about 3play is the customer support. We work in mass volume and most times with short turn around. no matter the askk or issue 3play is always eager and willing to help. with real people! its not just an automated message. and if you are assigned a manager, you can contact them directly which is a major plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

For the most part 3play has been awesome. but if i had to list downsides they would be:

- scc files sometimes get rejected by clients due to lag.

- files may not come in time before the weekened and then we have to wait until monday for assistance.

- can not delete files (only archive) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

use this site for caption. they have plety of options. easy to use. super helpful. they even send guides your way. even if an issue arises customer support is on top of it for the most part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

i do not have a business problem per say, but what i will say is that the options and tools provided on the site are super user friendly for both us and our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

Their turnaround time is good. Their support team is very friendly and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

Audio descriptions are new to the industry so the quality of these need to be improved without 3Play requiring the client to have to refine the audio description. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

Resesarch how easy it is to revise a captions already completed by the vendor when new accessibility laws are released. Review all of the services being offered and their quality, especially for audio descriptions or new requirements that are on the horizon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

3Play Media creates captioning for our videos which helps our team maintain accessibility standards and allows us to be more productive. We use them about 5-20 times per month depending on our current project needs. It's very easy to submit an order then download the caption, as well as edit the caption when needed.

It's also nice that there is an option to have a temporary link for partners who don't have a 3Play account to directly edit captions which makes for an efficient workflow as we don't have to middle manage. There are a lot of features in the style of captioning, the final format output, and service tiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jaclyn Lazzari of 3Play Media

Hello, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience. We appreciate your honest assessment of our audio description services. We are committed to providing the highest quality services to you and other customers, and your insights help us do that. We are grateful for the opportunity to hear and learn from your input. If you have any additional comments or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to us.

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What do you like best about 3Play Media?

The upsides are the high quality overall and the quick turnaround when we needed to change our order Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about 3Play Media?

The only downside was that it was obvious when different people (AI?) did the AD. Nothing was wrong; the voice just wasn't 100% consistent. This wasn't a problem for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering 3Play Media:

Talk to them in advance to figure out what your needs are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is 3Play Media solving and how is that benefiting you?

My company was working on a very big project with around 150 video clips that needed audio descriptions and closed captions related to an important test for our stakeholders. The AD had to read a very specific way, as test scores can be impacted by how these video clips are interpreted. 3Play did a great job providing the AD and then, when we had issues, they fixed the problems very quickly, even setting up a conference call with very short notice to help us help ourselves. When we needed to upgrade from Standard to Extended on quite a few videos, they did this for us with a very quick turnaround. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.