The Startup Filmmaker’s Journey to Creating an Online Course.
Follow business-owner Michael as he takes you with him on his journey to create his own course. All the detail and tangible results, with real-time case study content.
Top Streamable Alternatives: Free & Paid Video Platforms
Streamable is popular because it’s fast, simple, and easy to use. You can upload a clip, grab a link, and share it almost instantly. But as video needs evolve, that simplicity can start to feel limiting. Streamable doesn’t offer much in the way of customization, which is why many creators and...
How to Share Videos Without Losing Quality: Top 5 Methods
Sharing videos should be simple, but keeping them sharp and clear often feels harder than it should. Most of the time, quality drops because the file gets compressed, resized, or squeezed through a service that can’t handle large videos. The good news is you have several reliable ways to share...
Spotlightr Video Hosting on Your Thinkific Courses: Why It’s Worth Your Investment
Thinkific gives you a built-in video player that works. Spotlightr gives you a video hosting platform built to protect your content, engage your students, and grow your course business. If you're serious about selling online courses, the differences between basic hosting and dedicated video...
Top Cloud Based Video Streaming Platforms in 2026
Cloud-based video streaming has become the go-to way to watch and share videos without dealing with storage limits or complicated setups. Everything lives in the cloud, so your viewers can access content instantly from anywhere, on any device. For businesses, it also means you get the benefits...
Maximize Your Earnings: Best Pay Per View Video Hosting Platforms for 2026
If you want a straightforward way to earn money from your videos, pay-per-view hosting gives you a clean path: people pay to watch, and you keep the earnings. It’s a flexible model that works well for creators with niche or loyal audiences because you don’t need a massive following or ads to...
2026 Video Hosting Cost Breakdown: Best Pricing Plans Compared
In 2026, the cost of video hosting goes beyond the monthly subscription shown on a pricing page. What you spend is shaped by storage capacity, bandwidth usage, playback quality, privacy controls, analytics, and the level of support you can access. That’s why two plans at the same price can deliver...
Product Updates
Introducing OTP Verification: Real Leads, Real Students
We're rolling out a new feature that solves two very different problems with the same simple idea: one-time password (OTP) verification. If you're not familiar with the term, an OTP is a short, temporary code sent to someone's email that they have to enter back into a form to prove they actually...
Platform Updates – May 2026
Platform Updates What's New & What's Next A look at how we've been making your platform faster, smarter, and easier to use — from February 2025 through April 2026.Why this matters Every two to four weeks, we ship updates that improve your experience — from small polish to major new...
Spotlightr Galleries
What is a Gallery? In the most simple of terms, it's a single web page that hosts one or more videos. Imagine a set-up similar to Netflix, but for learning, presenting, and discovering. It's simple and quick to set up, but it can also give a beautiful, elegant page...
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Can You Password Protect YouTube Videos? [And 11 Other Video Security FAQs]
If you use video for your business or course then it's likely that most of your video content will remain visible for everyone on your websites, especially if you are using video for marketing your product or service or explaining a concept or product feature. After...
Release Notes: March 2025
OK here we go! This is going to cover new features, improvements and bug fixes for the last half of 2023 and the first two months of 2025. We are long overdue for one of these announcements so let's get started. Over this time period we've had 28 platform updates,...