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The true cost of “free” when using YouTube on your website

The YouTube video player is thought to be completely free to use, even for businesses. But someone has to pay... So who is paying and what is the real cost?

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Serverless: What is it and why is it different

What is Serverless?You may have seen all the recent hype around serverless in the developer community. So what exactly is it? I mean the code must still run somewhere right so how

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Email Marketing: How to increase open and click-through rates with videos

Email marketing can be an effective tool to drive traffic to your website and generate new leads. However, as more companies begin to clutter consumers’ inboxes, emails need to be more engaging to

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How to Embed YouTube Videos on WordPress

There are over a billion users of YouTube, which is approximately one-third of the people who use the internet. Every day, these users watch millions of hours of videos on YouTube thereby generating

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Case study: How PizzaTV found success with SmartVideo

Like many other businesses, PizzaTV uses video to tell a story and cultivate brand credibility with their hard-earned target audience. Embedding YouTube videos on their website created a poor experience plagued with slow startup times and stall-outs during playback. Then they found SmartVideo.

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How to add videos to an Elementor website

As great as Elementor is, the included options for adding a video to your site using the builder are limited. With the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress, your options are limitless.

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Case study: How NBC affiliate, KOBI-TV, found success with SmartVideo

In the past, NBC affiliate KOBI-TV used YouTube on their website because it was simple and free. However, management became frustrated with the amount of site visitors being pulled away to YouTube by in-player links, competitor ads, and "related videos". Then they found SmartVideo...

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Creating a professional video experience with Beaver Builder & SmartVideo

Beaver Builder is an amazing option if you want to visually create a WordPress site that is clean, fast, and responsive. And with our SmartVideo plugin for WordPress, Beaver Builder becomes a killer page builder for websites with video content 💪

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Slow videos are a big problem: Why your video speed matters

When it comes to any online service, speed matters. Even milliseconds of buffering can have a catastrophic effect on business. Just like websites, video speed matters too.

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Bringing professional video to WP Courseware customers

WP Courseware is the most-used learning management system plugin. It allows WordPress users to easily create and manage interactive online courses with a drag and drop interface. If you’re familiar with creating posts and pages on WordPress, then WP Courseware’s learning curve is a small one.

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A deep look at the SmartVideo widget

Looking for a way to add clean, accelerated, professional videos to your WordPress site with ease? With the SmartVideo widget, you can instantly add a clean, accelerated SmartVideo anywhere on your WordPress site.

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Do YouTube videos impact the speed of your site?

Page load speed is widely recognized as an important measurement when building a website, but what about video load speed?

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Feature highlight: Automatic YouTube conversions

YouTube is a great tool for site owners when used properly. To help our users make the most of YouTube without any of the drawbacks, SmartVideo includes automatic YouTube conversions as a feature in every pricing tier.

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Say hello to the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress 🎉

Although SmartVideo has already been installed by users on countless WordPress sites, today, it's easier than ever. WordPress users can now install and manage SmartVideo right from their WordPress dashboard. No more messing around with JavaScript or your site's header 🙌

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Top pros & cons of using YouTube on your site

It’s great to have a presence on YouTube. They make it very easy (and free) to embed videos on your site, but these benefits come at a price...

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Auto-playing background videos are hard, so let's make it easy

In theory, adding a background video to your site is as simple as including the autoplay keyword in your video tags. Unfortunately, there's one major catch.

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After 500 million video streams, here's what we've learned

In a previous post, we announced that we've delivered over 500 million video streams on behalf of publishers both large and small. It's been an incredible journey talking with customers, streaming countless videos

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Dear online media companies, stop declaring video bankruptcy!

We've been around awhile now and work with all sorts of video publishers both large and small, accelerating and delivering over 500 million streams in the past two years alone. Unfortunately, there's an

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500 million video streams later, Swarmify is celebrating a major milestone

Video acceleration company, Swarmify, announces they have optimized 500 million streams since launching their platform two years ago. CEO and Co-Founder, Nathan Barnett, says his team developed the product to help solve for

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3 ways the repeal of #NetNeutrality is good for the Internet

How to make lemonade from a big bag of lemons ;) It probably seems like there is nothing good to gain from repeal of net-neutrality. But in every challenge there exists an opportunity, so

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Using YouTube on your site is no free lunch

Your website is important to you and your business. At some point, you decided that publishing video on your website was the required next step in telling your story, building credibility, capturing the

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Giving thanks to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

We had too many choices anyways Paradox of choice — no more! Wow, so get this, now when you want to watch video content on the Internet, some of it is going to play

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The future: Reality meets The Sims

It all starts with the iPhone Apple recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone which is the birth of the modern smartphone era. If you consider that for a moment, it

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Embraer Innova Week

It was our pleasure to participate in the recent innovation week at one of the premier private jet manufacturers, Embraer. Seeing a big company trying to inspire their workers to keep an entrepreneurial

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How to get a guaranteed 80% decrease in video rebuffers

On Tuesday, an announcement was made that probably felt groundbreaking to most, but a bit meager to us. Limelight announced they would provide a money-back guarantee if they failed to improve video re-buffer

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