Video Hosting

Video hosting is a service that stores, processes, and delivers video for playback on websites and apps, handling upload, transcoding, and CDN streaming. General video hosting optimizes for reach, sharing, or marketing; secure video hosting adds DRM, watermarking, and access control for premium, paywalled content.

What is Video Hosting?

Video hosting is a service that stores, processes, and delivers video so it can be played on websites and apps without you running the streaming infrastructure yourself. It handles upload, transcoding, storage, and CDN delivery.

General vs Secure Video Hosting

Not all video hosting has the same goal. General platforms optimize for discovery (YouTube), marketing and analytics (some business hosts), or simple embedding. Secure video hosting optimizes for protecting premium, paywalled content with DRM, watermarking, and access controls built in.

What to Consider

Purpose of the content: Public reach versus paid access changes the right host.
Protection needs: Paywalled video needs security a marketing-focused host may lack.
Cost and delivery: Bandwidth, storage, and global CDN performance.

For Platform Owners

Choose the category by what your video is for. If it is behind a paywall and piracy would cost sales, evaluate secure video hosting rather than general hosting that treats protection as an afterthought.