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Thoughts, stories and ideas about video transcoding and streaming.
Why Your Wistia Bill Keeps Going Up: A Breakdown of Wistia's Pricing Model
17 min read
Wistia says $79/mo. Real cost for a 5-person B2B team? $379–$479 once you add seats, storage, and the Automation Suite. This breaks down how the bill compounds at 6, 12, and 18 months—plus a side-by-side with cheaper alternatives to see if the spend still makes sense.
Best Video Hosting for B2B SaaS Marketing Teams: A 2026 Buyer's Guide
22 min read
Most B2B SaaS teams overpay for video hosting. The category splits into three frames: marketing first, infrastructure first, enterprise first. Buy across them and you pay twice. This guide has a 6 question flow plus a cost table. Wistia's HubSpot attribution: $329/mo. Gumlet's: $19.
Why Wistia Isn't Enough for Online Courses (And What to Use Instead)
16 min read
Wistia is a great marketing video platform but the wrong infrastructure for paid courses—and the gap costs creators real money. No Widevine, no FairPlay, no LMS, plus a free extension that rips its videos in one click. Inside: 5 gaps, a protection-tier framework, and 4 migration paths.
Wistia Alternatives for Marketing Teams in 2026
19 min read
Wistia's $79/month price tag is a warm-up act. For most B2B SaaS marketing teams, the real bill lands between $329–$479/month. Instead of another vague top-10 list, this maps four team archetypes to four specific platforms, with live pricing and a $3,720/year reason to pay attention.
How to Switch from Wistia to a New Video Platform Without Breaking Your Website
20 min read
Teams leaving Wistia think the hard part is moving files. It's the six layers underneath: embeds, schema, sitemaps, HubSpot events, GA4, LLM transcripts. Miss one and failures surface weeks later. Gumlet's playbook covers all six in the right order.
Is Wistia Worth it in 2026? A Real Cost and Feature Analysis
18 min read
Most reviews quote Wistia at $79/mo. A real 5-person B2B team pays $479 once webinars + CRM are in. And no DRM means any gated video can be recorded with a basic browser extension. We ran the full cost breakdown, a 7-profile matrix, and 4 conditions where Wistia stops fitting.
Wistia vs Gumlet: Full Side-by-Side Comparison for B2B SaaS Teams
22 min read
Most "Wistia vs Gumlet" articles treat this as a price decision, but it isn't. Wistia handles video marketing while Gumlet handles video infrastructure, and most B2B teams need both. The real question isn't which to pick, but which belongs on which use case.
How to Build a Multi-DRM Setup: A Guide for Video Teams
18 min read
Multi-DRM myth: 3 DRMs = 3 encryption pipelines. It doesn't. CENC encrypts once, CMAF packages once, serving Widevine, FairPlay & PlayReady from one source. The real complexity is the license server layer. Our breakdown covers the stack, device matrix & build-vs-buy.
How to Enable Widevine DRM Without Building the Entire Licensing Stack
19 min read
Running your own Widevine license server adds infrastructure, not security—most devs learn this 3 months in. This guide maps the 3 paths to production DRM (self-host, DRMaaS, managed hosting), the CWIP certification barrier, token code, and the April 2027 Cloud License Service retirement.