Wistia Erfahrungen

I love how Wistia allows me to smoothly stream my videos and I am able to curate my content thanks to their analytics feature.

To an individual user, Wistia can be a little expensive.

There are many things to love about Wistia. Some of the key things that I liked most are:

- The simple user interface
- The ability to customize for conversions (end screens, chaptering, CTA's etc.)
- The ability to connect to HubSpot CRM with a more holistic picture of a lead to see what video content they have engaged with
- The ability to duplicate videos for different locations to isolate performance data
-The ability to provide our channel with video's and evaluate their performance
- The ability to replace a video without having to update all the locations it exists. This option is awesome because you have the choice to keep the statistics or start fresh
-The ability to make a channel and customize the channel for like content to keep the viewer engaged with like content
- The ability to have various teams in Wisitia from Marketing, Sales, Support, UX etc and isolate access
- The fact that they are continually putting out new features that are beneficial at various stages of the marketing and sales funnel

-I wish it would a little easier to customize end screens and CTA's. It would be nice if there was templates you could use and alter for these with your own content and brand. Or if there was a marketplace to purchase high converting designs.
- It would be nice to be able to customize the channel page more with your own brand fonts and layout options. Again pre-done templates for this would be a great feature.

Easy to understand and use. The software is fairly well documented if a little contradictory in places.

Cannot track any of the statistics on social media.

The back end is quite buggy.

Some of the customization features do not work on Social Media or with embedding at all.

They advertise on premium member videos. Right clicking beings up an link to their sales page.

I love how easy Wistia is to use. I'm a fanboy...I'll admit. I've used Wistia to host our orgs marketing and training videos for the last 4+ years and they make the process so simple.

Loading videos, setting up chapters, sharing links, embedding in our help center. I also have used the metrics to help identify where are videos are getting looks to.

Simply put, Wistia makes it easy to host videos.

I don't really have anything I don't like. I suppose some of the save/edit buttons aren't always the most apparent, when editing advanced functions of videos.

When I organized a virtual summit, I spent some time looking into platforms for hosting video content and I came across Wistia over, and over, again.

It was a familiar name to me because many people in my space used it, so I decided to give it a try.

I have to say that out of everything Wistia does, the one thing I think really sets the platform apart it its video player and how it empowers Wistia users.

Aside from the look of the player, which you can really make match your branding colors, you can decide what features to include (and exclude) from the player, and decide what happens once a video is finished.

Plus, you can set the privacy settings when it comes to your videos so that they can be embedded only on domains you pick, anywhere on the internet or nowhere at all other than on your Wistia channel.

This is ideal especially if you sell video content, like in the case of a video course, virtual summit or digital workshop.

The one thing I was a big fan of, when it comes to Wistia, was the fact that the pricing was tied to the bandwidth. I know that this isn't something that's unique to Wistia but isn't necessarily ideal.

Basically, the more people watch your video content, the more bandwidth is used and the higher your Wistia membership invoice is going to be...

What I loved most about this what is the moving GIF animations that it allowed us to have for our videos which are very engaging it's what caught my attention right away.

It's a little expensive being $100 a month for smaller agencies or developing SMBs. It's also very limited editing software but I understand if this is not an editing tool.

Wistia is a very beautiful, powerful and feature rich software. I love the analytics and the customization features. I've hosted a few videos there and shared links with my clients. They always ask me what video hosting service I am using.

It's over my price range. I wish it were more accessible. But I like that they offer a free service even though it's limited.

The simplicity and ease of use, coupled with powerful features under the surface if you need them. A few of the marketing features e.g. email gating are critical for us.

No particular downsides. There are a couple of features e.g. HubSpot integration that are only available on more expensive plans, but that's reasonable in B2B software.

-Ability to share videos privately
-Great Call to action options on the video
- Great tool for Individual departments to showcase and keep track of Stats on video

- Lacks some of the basic editing capabilities such as cutting and joining.
- Plans are a bit pricy compared to other video solutions
- Support is limited and usually through email.

Product feature rich and deep integrations with other leading software platform

Upper end on pricing and worth every dollar

What I like the most about Wistia is that I can store the videos to a server in the cloud and I guarantee that the information is secure, it can not be downloaded by unauthorized sources.

What I like the least about Wistia is that they increased their costs by monthly stored content and there are no annual contracts.

Wistia offers great features for all users - no matter how big or small. I've always appreciated that you can easily scale your account with them based on your needs. Additionally, their reporting is great and can give you insight into how long people are watching your video, where they drop off, etc. On top of that, they have plenty of ways for you to collect the info of whoever is watching the video.

The user interface could be better but it's certainly not a deal breaker for us.

Wistia is a great video sharing and building platform, a mix between Wipster and Youtube, or Vimeo. I most enjoy that it's easy to pickup and not overly complicated.

I least like that Wistia is so unheard of, and people are hesitant to try a new product and stick to what's familiar.

Probably the best thing about Wistia is how fast it is. I've never had any of the videos on my website take more than a few seconds to load. The customization features are great and make the videos blend in nicely.

While there are a lot of customization options, they can be a bit difficult to find. Pricing can be a bit expensive.

Super simple. Great stats. Easy to embed. Overall 10/10

n/a - It does everything I need it to do.

We use Wistia to host any recorded meetings, webinars, or trainings, and then we take those videos and post them to our Hubspot landing pages. It is super easy to take our Wistia-hosted videos where ever we need them!

I wish I could control the default image that shows when a video is paused or not yet playing. I also wish it would track who watched your video somehow.

The ability to quickly import videos and have them gated for customers. We use wisitia for our webinar recordings, and are easily able to customize each video and share throughout our marketing materials. We’re looking forward to trying out their new editing and on-demand landing page features!

No cons to mention! Wisita is a great solution for our video hosting.

I love how easy it is to use this software and how simply they explain how it works. The free version was so awesome that I decided to upgrade just so I could have access to more cool video tools. I'm not a video guy, so the fact that I could use it and make my intro/explainer videos look professional says a lot.

I use the Soapbox feature within Wistia but I don't know much about what else they offer. I think they could probably do a better job of explaining other available options.