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.

Thinkific Pricing (2025): A Great Free Plan & More

Thinkific Pricing (2025): A Great Free Plan & More

Updated Feb 2025 Thinkific is one of the most popular online course platforms for course creators everywhere. They boast a diverse customer base ranging from massive brands like Hootsuite and CMF to solopreneurs and everyone in between. Regardless of where you fall in this range, if you’re...

Thinkific vs Podia: The Non-Affiliate, No-Nonsense Comparison for 2025

Thinkific vs Podia: The Non-Affiliate, No-Nonsense Comparison for 2025

Deciding on the best online course platform to host your online courses is an important step in building a successful online business. With numerous options available, it can be challenging to determine which platform aligns with your specific needs and goals. Thinkific and Podia are two popular...

Top 9 Thinkific Alternative Platforms for Online Course Creators

Top 9 Thinkific Alternative Platforms for Online Course Creators

Thinkific has become a go-to platform for many online course creators, but its limitations in advanced features and integrated marketing tools can leave some users seeking better options with all the features needed for success. If you’re looking to expand your course's reach and potential, you've...

Top Picks for Beginners in 2025: Best Platform to Host Online Courses

Top Picks for Beginners in 2025: Best Platform to Host Online Courses

Deciding on the best platform to host online courses can feel overwhelming for beginners. Ideally, you want a fit-for-purpose solution that aligns with your teaching style and goals. This article cuts through the noise to compare the essentials: functionality, usability, and cost.  We lay out the...

Thinkific vs Mighty Network: Best Platform for Your Online Community

Thinkific vs Mighty Network: Best Platform for Your Online Community

Summary: Deciding between Thinkific and Mighty Networks is like choosing between a well-equipped classroom and a vibrant community center—one is perfect for crafting and delivering lessons, while the other excels at fostering connections and shared experiences. If you're an educator or...

Product Updates

Publishing with Embedly

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, Kickstarter, Disqus, etc. and...

Release Notes: February 2019

Release Notes: February 2019

2019 Started off strong with a major update to CTAs which introduced very powerful and adaptive Hotspots. We also followed through with improvements to CRM integrations by making it supper easy to tag your customers. We are also nearing the official release of the Chrome recording and video...

Release Notes: July

Release Notes: July

The main focus on our July efforts has been on optimizing performance, stability and ensuring that everything works flawlessly.  We took some time away from developing new features or enhancing old ones (although there was still some of that going on), to yield much...

Release Notes: June

Release Notes: June

Summer is here and the Spotlightr team is ready.  June brings several major improvements and enhancements to how you use Spotlightr, including the addition of a Wordpress plugin as well as a few other feature enhancements which we describe below.  Here are some of the...

Release Notes: May

Release Notes: May

May has been a really productive month for the Spotlightr team as we continue to welcome customers migrating from version 3 to our new version 4, as well as new customers into the platform. We are excited to present to you some of the major additions and improvements...