Put fast, ad-free, on-brand video on your site, and know when free hosting is enough and when a business host pays off.
For anyone asking: Where should I host videos for my website?
Each one's way of doing it, and the point where it stops.
Gives you an ad-free player with captions, chapters, password protection and domain restrictions, and loads the transcript as plain HTML for search. On Business, forms, calls to action and A/B tests run inside the player. Where it stops: Free shows Wistia branding on the player and stops embeds after its monthly bandwidth until reset.
Hosts your videos ad-free and lets you lock embeds to your own domains, customize the player and see heatmaps and drop-off per video. From Standard, in-player forms collect leads without redirecting viewers and sync them to HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce or Marketo. Where it stops: Free: embeddable videos share 3 GB, with no password, domain privacy or player customization.
Embeds the episodes and videos you record in Riverside on your site with an embed code that never changes, and reports plays, play rate and a retention curve. Where it stops: Free has no embeds (they start at Grow); on Pro, Grow and Webinar videos are archived after two years.
Publishes videos you edit in VEED to a share link with comments, and gives you an embed player for your site. Where it stops: No viewer analytics or lead forms in our data; deleting the account breaks every embed.
Turns a finished project into a share page with the transcript and comments, plus HTML embed code, or publishes it straight to YouTube or Wistia. Where it stops: Not a video host: analytics are a view count, and videos past the web-link length limit become audio-only.
Opens each video made in HeyGen on a share page you can publish for anyone to watch, with comments and watch-time insights, and exports SCORM packages that update while HeyGen hosts the video. Where it stops: Covers only videos made in HeyGen; Free videos are watermarked.
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