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.

8 Best Teachable Alternatives for Online Course Creators in 2025
If you’re looking for Teachable alternatives, chances are you’re frustrated with its limitations. You may feel jaded by high transaction fees, rigid design options, or lackluster customer support, in which case you need a platform that better fits your needs. Fortunately, there are plenty of...

LearnDash vs Teachable: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Software
(Updated for July 2025 with Teachable's plan changes in June) If you’re a teacher looking to take your courses online or a content creator looking for ways to share your knowledge on a particular subject, the LMS (learning management system) that you choose is going to be the most important tool...

Complete Steps to Creating a Digital Product (And Then Profiting)
From SaaS startups to marketing agencies and ecommerce websites, the internet presents an endless amount of business opportunities with reasonably low barriers to entry. An entrepreneur's dream, if you will. What's even more jaw-dropping is that many entrepreneurs are finding great success in...

How to Write a Lesson Plan Template: A Practical Guide for Educators
Creating a lesson plan template that keeps your teaching organized and engaging doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Whether you’re teaching elementary school or high school, a solid lesson plan ensures clarity, consistency, and student success. In this guide, we’ll walk through the key elements of an...

The Best Video Format for WordPress: Keeping Your Site Fast and User-Friendly
Videos can transform your WordPress site, making content more engaging and dynamic. But there’s a catch—if your videos take too long to load, users will bounce before they even hit play. That’s why choosing the right format for your Wordpress video hosting is so important. If you’ve ever wondered...

Vimeo vs YouTube for Business: Which Platform Best Supports Your Needs?
When it comes to video marketing, choosing the right platform is more than just a technical decision—it's a strategic one. Vimeo and YouTube stand out as two of the most popular options, each offering distinct benefits depending on your business goals. With so much at stake—brand perception,...
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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 all, when more people who watch...

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, taking us from v5.2.9 and...

Release Notes: May 2024
Hello Spotlightr fam, it's time for another edition of release notes. Our last one was at the end of 2023 and at that time we were on version 5.1.54. It's been a little over 4 months since then, bringing us 14 more releases during that time. Included in those was a...

Release Notes: December 2023
Time for some updates! Our last blog update was in July, so we are long overdue. Since July we've updated the Spotlightr platform 15 times (about one update per week, with some weeks skipped). We are currently on version 5.1.54. One notable update wasn't a feature,...

Release Notes: July 2023
We're midway through the summer, let's get to some updates that occurred over the last few months. The last release notes were from mid-April, and since then we've gone through 9 platforms updates. We added an integration with Mailerlite and also revamped our Zapier...