Video hosting for OTT and streaming apps
Your catalogue, on every phone, browser, and TV. Films and series that start quickly and keep playing.
One price for every hour watched, in every country, as your audience grows.
- 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 streaming services move their catalogue
Almost nobody moves because playback is broken. They move because the video bill stopped matching the business, and three patterns account for most of it.
The bill grows faster than the audience
For a streaming service, delivering video is the largest line on the invoice. When watch time doubles, that line doubles with it, and separate charges for preparing, storing, and serving the same title add up on three bills from three vendors.
Growth lands where video costs more
Many providers charge more to serve some countries than others. A successful launch in a new market can make every subscriber there cost two or three times as much to serve, and teams find out only after the audience has arrived.
Every change is a sales call
When the price is negotiated, a shift in where or how much your audience watches means reopening a contract. The cost of video starts to include the months spent negotiating it.
What a month of streaming costs
A service with 20,000 subscribers, each watching 10 hours a month in Full HD, with a 2 TB catalogue.
- Hours watched
- 200,000
- Video delivered (Full HD at 5 Mbps)
- 450 TB
- Streaming, with volume pricing
- $2,105.00
- Storing a 2 TB catalogue
- $20.00
- Preparing titles for every screen
- $0.00
- Monthly total
- $2,125.00
That is about $0.11 per subscriber a month, and it does not change when your audience does: the same hour costs the same in Ohio or Jakarta. The rate steps down as volume grows, and viewers on phones and slow connections receive a lighter version, so they cost less to serve. Try your own numbers on the pricing page.
What stays yours, and what we take on
The question that stalls a move is what has to be rebuilt. For most services the answer is very little: your apps and your brand stay as they are, and the video underneath them changes hands.
- Your apps and websitestays yours
Each title gets a standard streaming link that the video players built into phones, browsers, and TVs already understand, plus a ready-made player for your website. No app rewrite to start.
- Your brand and your subscribersstays yours
No ads, no other logos, and no one else's recommendations. Sign-in, subscriptions, and billing stay in the systems you run today.
- Your mastersstays yours
Import titles from a link to wherever they're stored today, or upload them. Originals stay in storage you can reach at any time, so leaving is as easy as joining.
- Preparing every title for every screenwe handle it
Each upload is prepared in 4K, 1080p, 720p, and 480p, with thumbnails, at no charge. No per-minute encoding bill.
- Smooth playback, everywherewe handle it
Each viewer receives the best quality their screen and connection can handle, and playback steps down to a lighter version instead of freezing.
- Keeping it runningwe handle it
A 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits, and instant removal when a title or a wrong version needs to disappear now.
Moving a catalogue in four steps
A move goes wrong when it is done all at once. Done in stages, with your current provider still running, it is routine. Each step should show its results before the next one starts.
- 1
Import a handful of titles
Bring in a few titles from a link to where they're stored today. Play them on the phones, browsers, and TVs your subscribers use, from the countries they're in. No viewers involved yet.
- 2
Switch your own team over
Point staff and test devices at the new streams for everyday viewing. This is where small differences between devices show up, before anyone who pays you is affected.
- 3
Move a small share of viewers
Send a small group of real subscribers to the new streams and compare them with everyone else. Widen one thing at a time, by country or by device, so a problem in one place isn't hidden in an average.
- 4
Move the rest, then retire the old provider
Import the remaining catalogue and move everyone over. Keep the old provider running until you've been through a busy weekend or a big premiere on the new one.
What every title gets
Everything below ships today and is included with every upload. It's also what runs the 20+ streaming apps of our parent company, Apexnova.
- Preparation in 4K, 1080p, 720p, and 480p, with thumbnails, at no charge.
- Playback on phones, browsers, tablets, and smart TVs, stepping down instead of freezing on slow connections.
- A standard streaming link for your own apps, and a ready-made player for your website.
- Import from any link, so an existing catalogue moves without downloading it first.
- Collections for shows, seasons, and genres, and team members with permissions.
- Instant removal when a title needs to come down now.
- One price per GB watched in every country, with no per-request fees, and a 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits.
When we are not the right home for your catalogue
A move that shouldn't have happened is expensive for both sides. Four cases where the answer is to stay where you are:
- Your studio licences require DRM copy protection on every title. We don't offer it yet.
- You broadcast live channels or live sport. ZeroBuffer is built for on-demand catalogues today.
- You need viewer and quality-of-experience reports from us today. Viewer analytics are coming soon, and we won't claim them until they ship.
- Your procurement needs a vendor on an existing enterprise agreement more than it needs one price in every country.
Frequently asked questions
- What is OTT video hosting?
- OTT (over-the-top) services stream films and series over the internet straight to phones, browsers, and TVs, without a cable or satellite operator. OTT video hosting is the layer underneath the app: it stores the catalogue, prepares each title in several qualities, and streams the right one to every viewer.
- Can we move without rebuilding our apps?
- Yes, in the normal case. Every title gets a standard streaming link that the video players built into phones, browsers, and TVs already play, so your apps change the link they load rather than how they play. Move a few titles and a small share of viewers first, and keep your current provider running until everyone has moved.
- Do we have to re-upload or re-edit our library?
- No. Import titles straight from a link to wherever they're stored today. Each one is prepared for every screen automatically, in qualities up to 4K, at no charge.
- How long does a move take?
- It depends on how many devices, countries, and titles you need to check, not on the switch itself, which is quick. Plan around being confident in each step, and keep your current provider running until you are.
- What does it cost?
- You pay for the video your subscribers watch: about $0.011 per hour of Full HD (1080p at 5 Mbps), the same in every country, with the rate stepping down above 200 TB a month. Preparing titles is free, storing them is $0.01 per GB a month, and there are no plans, contracts, or per-request fees.
- Where is our video served from?
- Your streams are cached on a global edge network and delivered over HTTPS and HTTP/3. We don't publish infrastructure details. What we commit to is a 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits, and the best test is your own: upload a title and play it back from where your viewers are.
- Can we run both providers at the same time?
- Yes, and for a service people pay for, you should. Running both lets you compare them side by side and switch back quickly if you need to. There's no contract or minimum on our side, so a small share of traffic can stay with us for as long as the comparison takes.
Try it with a few titles
Import a handful of titles and play them on your subscribers' devices, from where they live. No card, no contract, and your current provider keeps running until you're sure.
Related
Planning the move in detail? The OTT migration runbook covers the staged switch step by step. For how playback adapts to each viewer, see adaptive bitrate streaming, explained, and for your developers, the video docs.
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