Video hosting
High performance hosting
Elevate your videos with top-notch video playback, a super customizable player, detailed video analytics, and powerful tools for organizing and sharing.
No ads, no distractions
Give your audience a seamless viewing experience.
Completely ad-free
Videos hosted with Wistia are 100% ad-free, keeping your viewers’ attention on what matters most: your content.
Quality playback
Give your viewers content that plays perfectly every time with global delivery, adaptive streaming, a responsive player, and 4K support.
Super fast load times
The Wistia player is super durable and lightweight, meaning embedded videos load up at the blink of an eye. That’s better for SEO and better for your viewers.
Complete control over your videos
Customize your videos to keep your viewers tuned in.
Customizable player
No one knows your audience like you do. That’s why we give you complete control of their viewing experience. Change your player's logo, thumbnail, color, and shape—all in seconds.
Learn more about our player
Video collections
Make your video collections easier to find and more fun to watch with SEO-friendly playlists, channels, and carousels that look perfectly on-brand.
Check out video collections
Easy embedding
We’ll automatically generate the embed code. All you have to do is copy and paste it onto your web page for a super fast and responsive video exactly where you want it.
Learn more about embedding
Localization
Reach a global audience with cost-effective AI-powered translations, captions, and next generation Video Dubbing with lip-sync.
Localize your videos
Like what you see?
Sign up for freeEasy-breezy content management
Toss all your videos into Wistia and we’ll take care of the rest.
Learn more about video managementImport
Getting all your videos into Wistia is a breeze. Just drag and drop files from your hard drive or connect Wistia to Zoom or Descript to import your videos from those platforms.
Organize
We’ve got what you need to keep your video library in tip-top shape. Create folders for your content, add custom tags so you can find your videos faster, and archive old videos without losing their performance metrics.
Search
Find what you’re looking for a whole lot faster with our type-ahead search. We pull from your video titles and the content itself to deliver the best results. Dig in further with filters like tags, duration, creation date, and more.
Secure
Whether you have a single video or an entire folder’s worth of content, password protection lets you control who sees what. And with customizable user permissions, you decide who can access and edit your video library.
Analytics built for action
Track performance, optimize your videos, and drive real results. Plus, integrate Wistia with marketing tools like Google Analytics, HubSpot, and Pardot to supercharge your overall marketing strategy.
Hear from our users
Read more reviews“Hooked on Wistia for all the right reasons”
The dependable player, customizable interface, and data-rich analytics provided by Wistia go beyond conventional metrics, offering valuable insights into viewer engagement.
Marko Novakovic Head of Creative at FishingBooker
“Video management made easy!”
Thanks to Wistia, anyone on the Explainly team can easily upload, organize, and showcase our entire portfolio of videos to prospective clients in a sleek and searchable video gallery. For both our internal team and external clients, Wistia's intuitive interface ensures effortless navigation and quick access to all our content.
Scarlett Bush Director of Operations at Explainly
“The best video marketing platform”
Wistia is simple to use, highly customizable, and lightning fast. The analytics capabilities within the tool are really well built. I have used a couple of competitors in the past that weren’t nearly as streamlined and easy to use as Wistia!
Jake Matulewicz Director of Marketing & Customer Experience at Symmons Industries
“Elevated video marketing strategy made simple”
Wistia has found the perfect balance for a video hosting platform: It’s simple to use with the analytics we need to make our videos more effective. We now use it for everything: lead capture for marketing videos, chaptered long-form webinars, internal documentation—the works. It’s my favorite platform in our marketing stack.
M. Tre Gonzalez Director of Growth at OnCourse Systems for Education
Video hosting is just the beginning
We’ve got all the tools you need to squeeze more juice out of your videos.
Recording
Create super polished videos with just your laptop.
Marketing integrations
Automatically send video data to your favorite marketing tools.
Editing
Zhuzhing up your videos has never been easier.
Podcasting
Upload your pod and we’ll distribute it to top directories like Apple and Spotify.
Collaboration
We’ve made getting feedback simple and fun. Really!
SEO
We automatically optimize your videos for search to get you more views.
Lead generation
Turn your videos into marketing machines.
Wistia API
Build custom video experiences for your site.
Webinars
Hosting webinars is now a piece of cake. Preferably red velvet.
Frequently asked questions
Get all the As to your FAQs.
What is the best video hosting platform for me? Wistia or YouTube?
That depends on what you’re looking for. Wistia is great for converting viewers to customers and controlling how your videos look and feel, while YouTube helps you maximize your videos’ reach. We recommend using both as part of your video marketing strategy. In fact, you can publish videos to YouTube right from Wistia.
Where can I host videos for free?
You can host up to 10 videos for free right here on Wistia. We’ll provide a customizable player, integrations with your social media accounts for quick posting, and video analytics to help you measure performance.
What is video hosting?
Video hosting is when you upload video files to a platform so that people can watch them online. With Wistia, you can do just that. When you upload videos to Wistia, you can customize the video player to match your brand, easily embed the videos on your website, and use the privacy settings to control who’s able to watch. You can even optimize your videos’ performance with access to analytics, video A/B testing, and integrations with your marketing automation platform.
What’s the difference between paid and free video hosting with Wistia?
Get a quick overview of our free and paid plans:
- Wistia’s Free Plan lets you host up to 10 videos, customize the video player to match your brand, integrate with your social media accounts for quick posting, and measure the impact of your videos with basic video analytics.
- Wistia’s Plus Plan ($19/mo) helps you capture leads with in-video forms, integrate your video library with your email marketing platform, and do basic video editing to get more out of your videos.
- Wistia’s Pro Plan ($79/mo) offers video heatmaps, the ability to A/B test with video, and customizable in-video calls to action (CTAs) that drive your audience where you want them to go.
- Wistia’s Advanced Plan ($319/mo) helps you host super engaging webinars and live events. Plus, it lets you integrate Wistia with your marketing automation platform (HubSpot, Marketo Engage, or Pardot). You can also create an unlimited number of Wistia Channels, which are customizable video galleries that look ultra polished and match your brand to a tee.
How do I host a video online?
Just create an account with us! Then upload your video with a quick drag and drop. Another option is to import a video from tools like Zoom. Haven’t made a video yet? No prob. With Wistia, you can create videos with our handy-dandy video recorder.
Is it better to host my own videos or use a video hosting site?
It’s a whole lot easier to use a video hosting site like Wistia. Hosting your own videos requires a ton of server bandwidth. You’ll also have to deal with file size limits, storage space, slow load times, not-so-great video quality, possible piracy, manual coding, and video conversion for mobile—phew! What a mouthful. But you’re in luck because Wistia handles all of that for you.
What is an online video platform?
We think of it as a website that lets you upload, host, and watch videos. With Wistia, you can do that and more. We’ll help you record and edit your own videos, host a webinar, organize your video library, build branded video galleries for all your content, optimize your videos for search, customize your video player, and measure the impact of your videos with top-notch analytics.