Video hosting built for businesses.

SproutVideo and YouTube are built for fundamentally different purposes. SproutVideo is a business video platform designed to help your company host, secure, market, and measure your video content on your own terms. YouTube is a social platform designed to keep viewers watching content on YouTube, supported by ads and powered by recommendations to other creators.

With SproutVideo, you get:

• No ads, ever. Your viewers will never see pre-roll, mid-roll, or banner ads on your videos and live streams.
• No "related" videos. When your video ends, viewers stay focused on your content instead of being sent to a competitor or a recommendation feed.
• A fully white-label player. Customize colors, thumbnails, and controls. There is no SproutVideo logo or platform branding on your videos.
• Built-in video marketing tools. Capture leads, add calls-to-action, place post-play screens, and connect to your CRM and email platforms.
• Privacy and security controls. Use password protection, domain and IP whitelists, signed embeds, dynamic watermarks, and SSO for viewer login to keep your content in the right hands.
• Detailed analytics for business decisions. Track viewer engagement with heatmaps, see who watched what, and export reports for your team.
• Live human support. Get help from a dedicated Customer Success team based in our New York City office.

YouTube is a great fit for creators who want maximum reach on a social network. SproutVideo is the right fit for businesses that need control, security, and marketing tools around their video content.

SproutVideo offers all of the video hosting and live stream broadcasting features to meet your business goals. You gain access to enterprise-level tools tailored for both internal and external communication, video marketing, security, analytics, and more. We offer all of these features with fair and transparent pricing while providing best-in-class, live customer support.

Our intuitive video platform makes it easy to host videos online with complete control of your content. If you're still not convinced, check out our Knowledge Base for a detailed breakdown, or see what our customers have to say. You can also start your free 30 day trial to test out all our features and see for yourself with no credit card or commitment.

Self-hosting videos requires uploading and managing video content on the same server as your website. However, self-hosting also requires a lot of time and resources. Without significant technical investment and support, self-hosted video content is vulnerable to security threats. In addition, uploading large video files slows down site performance, and increases costs with high storage needs. Videos aren’t guaranteed to work on all devices and generally will not perform well when the viewer’s location is distant from the server.

In order to efficiently deliver videos to as many viewers as possible, they must be encoded, compressed, and processed into many different formats. Videos must also be dynamically served in those different formats to ensure a seamless experience. While this is possible to do when self-hosting, it's very costly.

When hosting your videos with SproutVideo, all of this technical heavy lifting is seamlessly handled for you. Learn more about hosting videos to use on your website.

We do not limit the number of people who can watch any of your videos or live streams hosted by SproutVideo. You can easily track how popular your videos and live streams are with your account usage and analytics reports, which include detailed information about bandwidth and live delivery.

However, you may choose to limit your audience by enabling login protection for your content. When your videos and live streams are login protected, viewers must enter credentials to watch. You have complete control over the creation of viewer login credentials to allow access to your login protected content, as well as the number of times each viewer may login to watch your content. The subscription plan you select will determine the number of viewer logins you are able to create.

You may also want to restrict where your videos and live streams can be accessed by whitelisting specific domains, IP addresses, or geographic locations. Learn more about restricting your audience and access to your video content.

In addition to our extensive platform knowledge base, our best-in-class Customer Success team can be contacted any time via email, and via live chat during US East Coast business hours.

Select subscription plans will also have a dedicated Customer Success representative to assist with any questions or custom solutions, and a phone call or video demo with your dedicated representative may be requested at any time.