CourseCareers charts the perfect course of action with Gumlet.

CourseCareers is an Atlanta-based edtech company founded in 2019 by Troy Buckholdt to help people start well-paying careers without a college degree. It offers programs in Technology Sales and Information Technology, Data Analytics, Accounting, HVAC, and Construction Project Management, each taught by working industry professionals.

Course viewing experiences are pivotal to CourseCareers. Thousands of lessons, free introductory courses, and mock-interview walkthroughs all need to load instantly inside their own learning platform. On Vimeo, the team kept hitting two walls: integrating with their React Player front end took far more engineering effort than it should have, and when they needed help, the support didn’t go deep enough to unblock them. They needed a video partner that was as hands-on and practical as the training they give their students.

What challenges were they facing?

1. Too much friction integrating Vimeo with their React Player front end
2. Support that didn’t go deep enough for developer-level questions
3. Migrating a library of ~8,000 lessons manually wherever they've seen so far
4. Bandwidth costs rising as more learners streamed course content

So what worked?

With Gumlet, CourseCareers moved its entire course library off Vimeo and set itself up to scale with its student base.

• Free migration, for ~8,000 videos (~50,000 storage minutes) off Vimeo
• 32% bandwidth reduction with no loss in quality
• 27% reduction in cloud spend since Gumlet’s implementation
• React-ready playback that slotted straight into CourseCareers’ front end
• 24/7 human support - replying in minutes, not days
• Global multi-CDN delivery for uninterrupted course delivery.
• Clear insight into learner engagement through in-depth analytics on the dashboard
• Easy to use Dual DRM, signed URLs and domain restrictions to protect premium exam-prep content.
• AI-generated subtitles and chapters to make long lectures more accessible
• 99.95% uptime SLA and hands-on migration support from Gumlet

A Senior Product lead from CouresCareers had the following to say:

“Our primary goal with the migration was to make sure we never run into issues with our React player frontend - and Gumlet solved that and so much more, reducing bandwidth consumption and cloud costs in the process.”