Wiredrive Reviews & Product Details

Sharing links easily and how easy it is to set up projects/user logins. I use it on a constant basis so it's really great and easy to use! It's great for company wide productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That there is not an easy way to use it on Mobile (that I know of), sometimes if I'm not by a computer and I need to grant someone access to it, it would be much easier if there was an app or an easier way to use it through mobile internet and be able to do all the things I do on a regular basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Endless professional features built-in... links w/ built-in tracking (though imperfect), ability to share folders and complicated organizations of media, ability to have clients approve links or comment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like the media management interface on the admin side... where you're uploading files to, how one moves folders, renames files or folders, navigates, etc, etc, could be much more intuitive.

I wish system would automatically compress and serve media dynamically based on users device or connection -- lots of clients/agency watching on mobile devices these days, and would prefer not to have to instruct editors to always compress for smthg in-between.

In a perfect world, the actual URLS of links generated would be a little more clean... /project-name/version-name/etc

I'm not crazy about sending links via Share function, prefer to 'Get Link', but that doesn't allow clients to approve, flag, make notes, etc... Imagine there are some technical limitations there, but a guy can dream...

I'd love either a mobile admin app or a a mobile version of site. Often need to generate new links when on my phone, but it's not very easy... seems like current app is designed only for agency/client and directors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and organizational tools. The software is simple to use on a user level and easy to teach to incoming team members. Videos play effortlessly regardless of device, whether desktops, laptops, tablets, or mobile, and our teams and reps use all. Making changes is nearly instant and the array of metadata options make it easy to create simple and effective search fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amount of space vs. price. With the growing quality and quantity of content being shot the price per month seems steep, especially when compared to some other services. Wiredrive has adjusted in the past to meet new requirements but that hasn't happened this year, but I'm confident it will. It would be nice to have the option to make adjusts to the site layout without having to contact support, but they are very fast when the need arises. Customizable user categories would also be nice, as the pre-set options do not always fit what a user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I highly recommend WireDrive for its ease of use! I'm an Assistant Editor on "America's Got Talent," and we've been using WireDrive for years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I dislike about WireDrive is that it no longer supports many of the popular internet browsers. When subbing out a portion of a longer QuickTime clip, or when stitching together individual acts to form a full episode, WireDrive has sync issues with certain browsers, where the audio is many seconds out of sync with the picture. For this reason, we are no longer able to stitch together pieces of quicktimes, or sub out small portions of longer quicktimes, and upload to WireDrive. This is a huge inconvenience in the workplace. It also adds more risk when sending a rough cut of an episode to the Network, which looks fine for us, but may not play correctly for the Network (NBC). If an hour and a half-long output finishes, only for us to realize there was a mistake on the slate, we now have to re-export the entire hour and a half-output, rather than just re-exporting the slate and stitching it together like we used to do. What a huge inconvenience! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that when I need to get something in front of someone in a hurry and I don't have time to wait for the back and forth with a post company or such that I can knock it out myself and get it in front of the team instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked the way you used to copy and paste, was a bit quicker and more efficient in my opinion. Now I have to highlight it and when I paste it is in a larger type with a gray backdrop and my email doesn't look as nice as it could. So I usually go back and change the font and size and remove the gray backdrop it now brings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Wiredrive is the ease of use and practicality of it. I don't know of another service like it that allows such a seamless service between companies to display a variety of presentations. It seems like the gold standard in the advertising industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is only one negative comment I have. I wish there was a different way to label files. The files are listed in alphabetical order and we have to come up with file names that we'd rather not use to get them in the order we need them to be. I also wish that you could choose if you want the "Wiredrive numbers" to show up since some clients get confused between those numbers and the version numbers we give the files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to create such a professional presentation is the best! The main aspect I love is the user front, where you are able to select users and send them a single email for them to work off of. This makes it easy to track file reception (based on who watches it) and makes it easy to deliver to clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was a way in folder view to see file/folder sizes. Often when cleaning up extra space, I notice a single project contains a high GB of files, but when going through, it's hard to assess from a glance which folders contain larger files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the last five years we’ve gotten to know several people at Wiredrive, and about a year ago I called Rob simply to tell him how amazed I was that we’ve never experienced an issue that prevented us from making a delivery on time. That’s pretty amazing to me. None of the elegant functionality of Wiredrive would matter if it didn’t work consistently. But it works uber-consistently, and that means everything in the industries we play in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much I don't like. This is minor, but it's an annoyance. I don't like that when I upload content that I have to manually refresh the page in order to see the content and create a link. It would be elegant if the page automatically refreshed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quick upload, great queueing. Very easy to use and feels very safe. Many people in the agency even those who may not be too tech savvy are very quick to learning the user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't run the account but I'm constantly being pestered to keep files off of the site as we are billed for the space we use. I see the benefit of only having files uploaded that you need but often times we run into situations where clients refer to old links that have been deleted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how the project section is structured, its mostly easy to use and makes it easy to keep information secure through its team member management system. We often work on projects that require NDA's and a high level of sensitivity when it comes to who see's the information, Wiredrive has the features to allow us to keep this information secure while being able to easily share it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. I don't like that you can't "lock" a shared presentation. E.g. We have Base Reels for each director that our reps use as a starting point for constructing a reel on each job. However sometimes they forget to copy the reel and work off of that before making changes, which messes up the base reel for anyone who comes after, if an admin was able to lock a reel it would prevent this kind of thing from happening.

2. The separation between Admin and Library is sometimes frustrating and unintuitive, I should be able to make fast basic changes to videos in my library without having to go to the menu, hit admin, then re-search for my video all over again in order to make minor changes. can you build an edit button into the library so when you notice something while playing a video you can just hit that button and it makes the title/client etc sections editable instantly.

3. I don't like that I can't create a unique link for an individual video without having to build a presentation. If I just want to quickly send one video, I should be able to generate a link from library to share it quickly, rather than spending the time to build a presentation, which then clogs up the presentation list unnecessarily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.