Spotlightr

Course sellers and membership site owners use this video host to store lessons, protect them and stream them through a player they can brand and embed on their own pages. The vendor describes it as hosting built for courses, with a 14-day trial that needs no credit card.

Encrypted hosting against downloads

Every uploaded video is protected by HLS encryption, and each access uses polymorphic tokens, according to the site. The company says this stops viewers from ripping a course after one watch. Hybrid hosting is also offered. Files can stay with another host while the Spotlightr player still plays them, which the vendor presents as useful for teams that already host their material elsewhere.

Branded players and watch pages

Customers can add their own logo and color palette to the player and to watch pages in a few minutes. The site says branded individual videos, galleries and watch pages come with every plan. Playback is said to adjust automatically to the viewer's resolution, with 4K support and fast servers.

Selling access and growing enrollments

Marketing features include email gating, email integration, progress analytics and pay-per-view. A course owner can require an email address before a lesson plays, or charge for access to a single video. The site says these tools help creators share, track and gate their content, and it aims them at marketing funnels and at growing student enrollments.

Connecting to WordPress, Kajabi and Thinkific

Lessons are said to work with WordPress, Kajabi, Thinkific and similar platforms. For WordPress sites the company offers a free plugin and a LearnDash integration, which it says connects encrypted videos to a course. Setup is intended to take minutes rather than a developer's time, the site says.

Updating lessons without losing views

Each video gets an evergreen link and an embed code, so a creator can replace the footage without changing the embed or losing views and analytics. The site notes that course material needs regular updating. Re-uploading files usually means new embed codes and lost history, which the evergreen link is meant to avoid.