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,...
Product Updates
Release Notes: November 2021
New plans are coming! Here on this page is the first time we are announcing this. In a few weeks we are going to be releasing brand new plans for Spotlightr. Just in time for Christmas cheer! In the fall of 2020 we started offering only one plan, the Polaris plan, to start our "new" company with...
Release Notes: September 2021
In August and September we wanted to make sure we got out a few big features that were planned for the the third quarter and we were able to deliver. Those new features included big updates with the introduction of My Themes as well as Team Accounts. My Themes was a result of our desire to make it...
Release Notes: October 2019
In the second half of 2019 our focus is on improving the performance of the player itself. We are working on developing a lightweight version of Spotlightr which will leverage several years of lessons learned in optimizing the performance and delivering video content....
Release Notes: June 2019
With the first half of 2019 coming to a close we wanted to identify some of the more comprehensive enhancements to the platform. That doesn't mean we ignored some of the smaller ones, as these in specific use-cases sometimes carry tremendous value with them. New Play...
Publishing with Embedly
We're very pleased to announce that Spotlightr oEmbeds are now supported on Embedly, the most utilized provider of third party embeds on content publisher platforms. This means that you will now be able to paste the Spotlightr share link on sites like Medium, Reddit,...