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Host and embed videos on your website

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?

Start here

The guide Video Hosting: How to Put Video on Your Website the Right Way How it works and how to do it well Read → Do it yourself Free Video Hosting: YouTube, Google Drive and Where They Stop Build it in Excel or Google Sheets Read → The tools Video Hosting Platform for Business: What Each Tool Covers Which apps do it for you, and where each stops Read →

Tools that do it

Each one's way of doing it, and the point where it stops.

Wistia Does it

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.

See Wistia → checked Oct 2026
Vimeo Does it

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.

See Vimeo → checked Oct 2026
Riverside.fm Partly

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.

See Riverside.fm → checked Oct 2026
VEED.io Partly

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.

See VEED.io → checked Oct 2026
Descript Workaround

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.

See Descript → checked Oct 2026
HeyGen Workaround

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.

See HeyGen → checked Oct 2026

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