# Widevine Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Digital Rights Management (DRM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-rights-management-drm) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Widevine Widevine is a complete digital rights management solution that gives the functionality to secure audio and video from infringement. Widevine's DRM solution provides the capability to license, securely distribute and protect playback of content on any consumer device. ## Widevine Reviews ### 1. widevine is prominent digital content protector . **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keval V. | Angelhack student ambassador, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Widevine helps in providing the best digital rights management for content and provides best solutions for licensing content to protect it from infringement.It also provide securely distribution of content. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** There is nothing to be disliked about widevine **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in providing security to our online video content by appropriate licensing according to the digital rights norms and also helps in distribution of content safely ### 2. Best solution for content protection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kalava Madhava T. | Section Manager - HEX Assembly | Quality | Digital | Analytics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Secure watching of content from popular media streams like netflix and etc. helping protecting data. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** Certain video file types will not work may be they can improve it in future updates **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing content is the best feature of this widevine, I think there is no other solution does this job great like widevine. ### 3. Experience towards using Widevine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek K. | Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Widevine?** The best thing about this application software is suggesting many more AI features with various suggestions. So, these things are helpful while using this software with multiple cloud features. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** Nothing like bad but some of the functions are not suitable with some of other cloud tools. So, please give a small integration with these tools for the betterment of Widevine. **Recommendations to others considering Widevine:** A worthful software is this. **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Widvine helps with collaborations with the powerful software & tools, but sometimes it makes costly in some features, but future things are good while using this. ### 4. Widevine is the go to solution for content protection system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Widevine helps us to securely watch content from premium services like Netflix, Amazon prime, and other media. This widevine helps to protect media **What do you dislike about Widevine?** Widevine integration is supported by most browsers but sometimes we receive errors when we use different video file types. **Recommendations to others considering Widevine:** Widevine is the must-use software for content protection because of its pretty good range of features and functions. Widevine is your go-to solution. Just go for it **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can protect our content with the use of widevine and widevine is free to use for all of the customers and is easy to install on devices . It is an excellent video encryption application for video files ### 5. Widevine : A proprietary DRM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SHASHANK M. | Retail Auditor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Various consumer electronics devices support it it is free to use and does not charge any money it supports multiple encryption schemes and hardware security in favor of the content owner. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** as Google purchases it, it mainly provides premium services to google, such as content decryption module one of the main alarming things in this technology is that somebody can circumvent it. **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** as per the DRM technology is concerned, I can able to access it on my android device without any hesitation, and it is free to use it means that it does not take any money from the android device user ### 6. The Best OPEN Digital Rights Management Solution. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amr M. | ID & Educational Technology Trainer, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Widevine supports encryption across almost every device and common media type. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** I think that Widevine needs to be faster, especially when dealing with different media files formats. **Recommendations to others considering Widevine:** I recommend testing it first with your exact use case and media type. Maybe you find it ok to go, or you find it a bit slow. **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Widevine to protect some of my online courses and educational content that's available ONLY for paid subscribers ### 7. Free for storing media **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug C. | Sr. Account Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Widevine?** You don't have to pay and it's cloud based **What do you dislike about Widevine?** It can be slow to upload and takes a little while to setup **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending and storing TV spots ### 8. Platform for protected premium content with good quality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak D. | Director Communications & Social Media, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Software platform for transfer of protected content at good quality, it is studio-approved for 4K, UHD. I like it's embedd in web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, and devices with Android OS and other various OTT devices. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** Can be a little tricky for non tech users, it's installation and setup. **Recommendations to others considering Widevine:** Must try if looking for better quality content **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used DRM Content protection system for premium media and best quality delivered ### 9. Its pretty cool! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Well, it makes it safer to share content with individuals and prevents others from sharing without your approval. I like that it is a built-in feature in most cases. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** I don't dislike anything about it. You might have your own opinion... **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personally, nothing at the moment, but it helps and/or will help any creatives/content creators prevent illegal downloading. Of course, Widevine does more than this. ### 10. Widevine Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** I appreciate the wide range of functionality and video **What do you dislike about Widevine?** The software is a bit slow and lags on low-end devices, and I receive a number of errors when I use different video file types **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for daily video encryption ### 11. Really helpful platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** UI of the platform and the white labeling. **What do you dislike about Widevine?** Customer service experience was pathetic. **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the marketing requirements are being managed in thia tool. ### 12. Google family **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Widevine?** Shares the same great traits, simplicity and cost effective features we all have come to love about the Google family of products. Just another function in advertising that you can stay within your Google world for the ease of collab/interface **What do you dislike about Widevine?** It's newerand unfamiliar. We explored its use and function in my advanced graduate courses and it's on its way **What problems is Widevine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Advertisement leg and keeping all your work and tools in the same space. ## Widevine Discussions - [How do I activate widevine?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-activate-widevine) - [How do I install widevine manually?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-install-widevine-manually) - [Can I install widevine?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-install-widevine) - [What is the best way to use Google widevine?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-use-google-widevine) - 1 upvote - [Suggest some more features about this.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/suggest-some-more-features-about-this) - 1 upvote - [View Widevine pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/widevine/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+11%3A39%3A46+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=630618f2-6104-4ae6-b531-34b6e96f16f7&secure%5Btoken%5D=a4525666650692032d1b377277f5ac08c9a4db5149f6557eeba63f6700d93c52&format=llm_user) ## Widevine Features **Content Protection** - Watermarking - Location Control - Expiration Management - License Management - Subscription Managenent - Access Management - Usage Tracking - Password Protection **Content Type** - Document Protection - Media Protection ## Top Widevine Alternatives - [Bynder](https://www.g2.com/products/bynder/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,104 reviews) - [Acquia DAM (Widen)](https://www.g2.com/products/acquia-dam-widen/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (614 reviews) - [Gumlet](https://www.g2.com/products/gumlet/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (351 reviews)