Video hosting for media and publishers
Video beside every story, on your own pages, without hiring a video team.
Upload or import a clip, place it in the article, and it plays on every phone and screen. One price in every country.
- 4K
- free preparation
- 1 rate
- every country
- 99.99%
- uptime SLA
No card, no contract, and no sales call to upload your first video.
Why publishers bring their video home
Readers expect a clip with the story. Getting one there, under your own masthead, is harder than it should be.
Your audience watches on someone else's site
Embed from a free video site and the reader sees that site's brand, ads you don't earn from, and a list of other channels' videos when yours ends. Your story becomes the start of their session somewhere else.
Video becomes a team of its own
Encoding settings, storage, players, and a separate bill for each. Newsrooms and small publishers end up hiring for video before they've published much of it.
Your readers live everywhere
A story can travel to a country you've never sold to overnight. The clip has to start quickly there too, and the bill shouldn't depend on which country picked it up.
What a month of video costs
A publisher with 2,000,000 plays a month, readers watching 45 seconds on average in HD, and a 1 TB archive of clips.
- Hours watched
- 25,000
- Video delivered (HD at 3 Mbps)
- 33,750 GB
- Streaming at $0.0049/GB
- $165.38
- Storing a 1 TB archive
- $10.00
- Preparing videos for every screen
- $0.00
- Monthly total
- $175.38
Short clips and readers who scroll away early are the norm in publishing, and you only pay for what was actually watched, not per play or per minute uploaded. The same story costs the same to serve in every country. Try your own numbers on the pricing page.
What stays yours, and what we take on
Your newsroom keeps the stories and the site. We handle the video underneath them.
- Your site, CMS, and mastheadstays yours
The player sits inside your articles and pages. Readers stay on your site and see your brand, not ours or anyone else's.
- Your archivestays yours
Upload from a desk or import from a link to wherever clips are stored today. Your originals stay reachable and you can take them with you.
- Your editorial callsstays yours
You decide what runs and where. Pull or replace a clip and the change applies straight away, which matters when a story is corrected.
- Preparing every clip for every screenwe handle it
Each upload is prepared in several qualities, up to 4K, with a thumbnail, at no charge. Nobody on your team needs to learn export settings.
- Playback for readers on the movewe handle it
Clips start quickly and step down to a lighter version on a weak connection, so a reader on a train still sees the video.
- One bill for all of itwe handle it
Preparing, storing, and streaming on one invoice, priced the same in every country.
Video in your stories in four steps
Start with one section, then roll it out across the site.
- 1
Import a section's clips
Bring in the clips for one section from a link to wherever they live today, or upload them from a desk. Group them into a collection for that section.
- 2
Play them where your readers are
Watch them on a phone on mobile data, a laptop, and a tablet. That is the test that matters, and it costs nothing to run.
- 3
Place the player in a story
Add the player to one article and publish. Readers watch without leaving your page.
- 4
Give the newsroom access
Add editors and producers as team members with the permissions they need, and move the remaining sections when you're ready.
What every clip gets
Everything below ships today and is included with every upload.
- Preparation in several qualities up to 4K, with a thumbnail, at no charge.
- A player for your website or app with no ads, no other logos, and no suggested videos.
- Playback on phones, laptops, tablets, and smart TVs, stepping down instead of freezing on slow connections.
- Import from a link, so an existing archive moves without downloading it first.
- Collections by section, show, or series, and team members with permissions.
- Instant removal when a clip is pulled or corrected.
- A 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits.
When we are not the right fit for your newsroom
Four cases where another setup will serve you better today:
- You need to sell ads inside the player. Monetisation features aren't shipped, and we won't claim them until they are.
- You broadcast live news. ZeroBuffer is built for recorded video today.
- You need per-story viewer reports today. Viewer analytics are coming soon.
- You mainly want to host images, downloads, or your whole website. We're built and priced for video; contact sales for anything else.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I put video inside my articles?
- Yes. Every video comes with a player you can add to your website or app, and it plays on phones, laptops, tablets, and smart TVs, with no ads and no one else's logo.
- Do I need a video team to use it?
- No. Upload or import a clip and it is prepared for every screen automatically, in several qualities up to 4K, with a thumbnail. There are no export settings to choose.
- Can we move our existing archive?
- Yes. Import clips straight from a link to wherever they're stored today, or upload them from a computer, and organise them into collections by section or series.
- What happens when a story goes viral?
- Nothing changes except the number of views. There are no plans, view caps, or regional prices; you pay for the video that was watched at the same rate in every country.
- What does it cost?
- You pay for the video your readers watch: about $0.0066 per hour of HD (720p at 3 Mbps) or $0.011 per hour of Full HD (1080p at 5 Mbps), the same in every country. Preparing videos is free, storing them is $0.01 per GB a month, and there are no plans, contracts, or per-view fees.
- Do you support live streaming?
- ZeroBuffer is built for recorded video today. If you're planning live coverage, contact sales and tell us about your audience.
Start with one section
Import a section's clips and play them where your readers are. No card, no contract, and nothing to change on your site until you're sure.
Related
Uploading, importing, and adding the player are covered in the video docs. For how clips adapt to a reader's connection, see adaptive bitrate streaming, explained.
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