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Spotlightr Reviews

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  • Likelihood to recommend9.05/10

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The pricing is very fair and competitive with other top players in the industry. And above-all, their customer support, you can feel that they truly care about helping their customers.
I love the ease of use and the every expanding capabilities I keep on learning new wonderful features and it has really benefited my website e-learning experience.
I like how nice, customizable and how much accurate feedback can give the player. I use in conjunction with other tools like publit.io to host the videos, also could be done on youtube.
This is a confusing and terrible user experience and makes the software unusable for me as it stands.
As I am afraid to send people to a page that can be buffering or not loading fast. First time that I installed I was unhappy with speed.
Some of the video load times can be slow, but that could be a user error and something I haven't tweaked in the settings.
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Shade O.

Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used other for 1-2 years

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A top-player in this space!

Reviewed 3 years ago

I've had a great experience using vooPlayer with my clients. Everyone loves the player!

Pros

Love that you can create really beautiful, customizable players! The feature-set is also amazing as the vooplayer teams actively seeks feeback and feature suggestions which they readily implement if it makes sense! They have weekly webinars where you can come with any questions you have about implementing anything and the webinar host shows you right then and there how to implement it.

Cons

The only thing I find a bit disconcerting is the buffering of some embedded videos while you play it. That's kind of annoying. I've heard it has something to do with the CDN (or lack thereof). Fingers crossed that this is fixed soon.

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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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Can't find a comparable alternative

Reviewed 4 years ago

vooPlayer was one of the smartest investments for my business. Video marketing is essential in today's digital landscape, and with its low-cost, premium-featureset, vooPlayer is positioned to be the ideal choice for any small business trying to compete for audience attention. Do yourself a favor and give it a free trial to see if it's right for you. Can always use an alternative service if not.

Pros

vooPlayer offers the best security if you want to protect your videos. They use HLS encryption (which unlike other video providers) prevents unwanted downloading and external sharing. Even pricier video hosting providers can't compete with this. I also love the feature-set offered for the "Startup" plan. You get what I believe are Enterprise-grade options for a lower price than Vimeo Pro.

Cons

Because there's so many options, I sometimes get confused with the UI. Also, I'd love to setup a default template for ALL settings, and tweak on a video-per-video basis. This is possible with some settings, but not all. Additionally, sometimes a video will glitch during playback, but have only encountered this a few times in many playbacks.

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Daniel M.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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very slow to load

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

lots of features. great idea in theory. excellent lifetime pricing deal offered occasionally

Cons

After clicking Play, the videos take 4-6 seconds to start playing! This happens whether I upload the video directly to Vooplayer, or use it as a skin for a YouTube player. This is a confusing and terrible user experience and makes the software unusable for me as it stands. Very much hoping they fix this, as it seems pretty great otherwise. Also, small gripes - it's not clear which setting changes create a change in the embed code and require updating. - after editing a video, they don't just give you the embed code. you have to go back to the My Videos page, select the video and then copy the embed code from there. Would be much better to give me a one click to copy embed code button after making edits to the settings.

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Ulysses G.

E-Learning, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Couldn't Be Any More Satisfied

Reviewed 3 months ago

Truly amazing software and people... Can't recommend it enough.

Pros

The ease of use. The pricing is very fair and competitive with other top players in the industry. And above-all, their customer support, you can feel that they truly care about helping their customers.

Cons

There really isn't anything I can say off hand, but if I had a wishlist of things they or any company can improve in, its speed.... Because some of our viewers are located all over the world. Depending on where they are located, it may at times be slightly slow, but not enough to warrant any complaints.. As we are truly happy with everything, just speed is something I think we all can say is relevant in any product, industry, system.

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Soham A.

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Have used this over 2 years!

Reviewed a year ago

Spotlightr has been a blessing. Loaded features at ever more affordable rates has been the biggest selling points. Great software for someone looking to host their videos online!

Pros

The thing that sold us for spotlightr was its cost structure along with the features it provided. There were a lot! We were able to use the capture gates along with creating beautiful video embeds onto our website. It also has a great integration with multiple tools for example zapier.

Cons

The analytics sometimes tended to misrepresent what we thought should be the actual metrics.

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Earnie R.

Education Management, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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Second to none

Reviewed 8 months ago

In 1 word: excellent. Wish there werer more companies like this.

Pros

Front-end, back-end, pricing, features, changelog. A solid 1st impression. That hasn't changed in the past 5 years I've been using it.

Cons

Can't think of anything. There have been times I found things to be less intuitive. 1 support ticket solved that. Every single time.

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Matthias S.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Many great features, great support, unique opportunities to gain new customers

Reviewed 5 years ago

Many more customers. :-)

Pros

VooPlayer is full of unique features f. ex. to gain new customers, to make a/b-testing, to set up complete video funnel and much, much more. The opportunity to change the completely "outfit" to match your CI is great as well.

Cons

It took me quite some time till I was able to use this tool in my sense. But that is not really the fault of the company. If you are willing to invest enough learning time this tool may change your whole business. (Yes, that's my experience).

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Shannon R.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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Perfect Tool For Turning Videos Into Conversion Tools

Reviewed 5 years ago

Love it. If you are a video creator, saves you a ton of time and gives you lots of marketing options for your videos.

Pros

Instead of having to upload videos to Youtube and to anoth platform for my ebsite, I can use Vooplayer and just use Youtube. For ym website it customizes the player and removes the annoying end of vidoe suggestions but I still get the view credits for Youtube. You can also add email optins, custom messaging and get loads of stats for each video.

Cons

If you are a heavy video creator you will hit their storage limits fast unless on a premium plan but you can use Youtube and Vimeo videos all day long as they do not count for storage.

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Jason H.

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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So happy to have moved to Spotlightr

Reviewed 7 months ago

Reduced our customer service tickets by using Spotlightr to host and embed videos for our event. No reported technical problems or international access problems.

Pros

Super smooth experience using Spotlightr to host/embed videos for our online summit/conference (the biggest ever - 122k). Top-tier customer service. They understood our needs as a business. Great quality and ease of use. Moved off Vimeo with ease and haven't looked back. The pricing model is more in line with our business needs.

Cons

Looking forward to improved reporting features.

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yunusa o.

Internet, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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one of the best video player

Reviewed 4 years ago

I can use it to customize my videos and I dont think I've seen a better software that enables me to do all these

Pros

Vooplayer is one of the best media tool on the internet. you can use it to customize youtube videos or any other video service. you can also use it to host secure and private videos. Not only that, you can monitor analytics on how the media is performing. Its a Great service for people who really works with media.

Cons

the software doesn't come cheaply, not everybody will want to spend much to get it. More features could be added to it while reducing the software lags during usage.

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Benjamin A.

Photography, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Amazing Video Hosting Platform

Reviewed 2 years ago

i learned about vooplayer about 4 years ago and after getting it, it was game-changing for what i do with video production and real estate phography. it allows for me to host videos without paying an outrageous amount per month. my website gets more traffic, i feel, because of it. i use vooplayer where i can on my site and not just for my content, but sharing videos from other sites like youtube and vimeo. it keeps the coding consistent on my site.

Pros

I love that I'm able to leverage my amazon aws account and host videos there and use vooplayer to provide the skin for my videos. I don't have to rely on a third-party platform to host my videos and pay a crazy subscription fee. vooplayer can even take youtube videos, linkedin videos, and facebook videos and wrap them with their skin and allow me to host that video wherever.

Cons

there's still a lot of user experience improvements that could be done with vooplayer, but overall, after knowing where to go and its limitations on what you can and cannot do, it's not that bad. there are some things like knowing which code to use on your site that will not mess with your site's code, but all of that is trial and error. once you figure it out, just create some step-by-step instructions for yourself to reference and you'll be golden.

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Executive Office, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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A great service for anyone who uses video

Reviewed 4 years ago

It is proving to be a very valuable tool for my business and I would highly recommend it to anyone with a website who makes good use of video. This will help you to take that professionalism to the next level.

Pros

From top to bottom this a fabulously versatile tool. It doesn't matter whether you are using your own videos hosted with Vooplayer or simply using Vooplayer as a pass-through tool for video reporting and the ability to skin the likes of Youtube videos to your liking. For example, it is easy enough for anyone to embed a Youtube video on their site without much expertise, but the problem is it looks...

Cons

There are some quirks to the userinterface such as the way folders work, but other than that this is a very mature and robust service backed by a great support team.

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Ale R.

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Vooplayer is a really good alternative for wistia.

Reviewed 5 years ago

Customize the video experience, branding the player and use marketing on video

Pros

Vooplayer is a really good tool for marketer and media who need to get on the next level with videos. You can use it with other people video content or get secure and private videos. With Vooplayer you can - Customize youtube videos or other video service - remove ads from players - host secure and private videos - Add marketing tools on video like lead captures - view analytics - player's branding. - add to calls Hosting video? No, i choose it because the players customization, branding and marketing tools One of the best video players on the market

Cons

They need to offert more features and improve the speed. They pricing is not expensive but should be more accesible. They try to focus on hosting videos but most of the people pass on that, because youtube is insanly fast, you dont have limits and also people can find your videos so is an extra exposure The solution for host videos is good if you wanna keep private, but most of the people pick other solutions. On the player personalization is good but should be amazing. They should offert more config and extras. Also, they dont support amp

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Brent R.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Reasonably priced video marketing host

Reviewed 3 years ago

vooPlayer is at the core of the online courses I've been building in one of my businesses. It allows me to securely host the videos, and also get my marketing message across to users and engage them further for my business.

Pros

vooPlayer is built around more than just serving videos to users. It's built around those who want to market their videos, or sell them. There are features designed to gather leads, upsell other products, etc. And the interface is relatively easy to use, if not a bit scattered at times. I also love that you can add most of the features to videos hosted elsewhere, like Youtube.

Cons

Storage limits are a bit restricting, and if you don't purchase a plan with their turbo bandwidth, the videos you host on the vooPlayer servers can be a little slower. Video hosting of this kind isn't cheap, and vooPlayer is still one of the more reasonably priced options out there. But it would be nice to have slightly higher limits as the core limits are pretty low.

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Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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The ROI is great!

Reviewed 5 years ago

Great experience, vooplayer is essential to my business today!

Pros

I can't recommend it enough. For anybody that works with video and want to sell more, this is for you! My favorite tools are the CTAs and metrics for the videos!

Cons

Some features are limited to the basic plans... but nothing that can cut you down.

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Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Cloud storage for the Entrepreneur

Reviewed 3 years ago

Excellent experience with vooPlayer. I use it for my website as well as my social posts.

Pros

This is a fantastic cloud storage for videos. You can use links for embed codes. Also, you can customize your thumbnail and see your statistics.

Cons

The initial load time can be a bit slow if your internet connection is not strong.

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Raul F.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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An impressive player

Reviewed 4 years ago

I use it and and I am happy with it. It has been difficult for me to find a good video player that looks professional, it is easy to use and fast enough. I have tried with four before (including Youtube, where I did not like the advertising). And it addition I can AB test videos in lading pages or blog posts to keep improving.

Pros

I like how nice, customizable and how much accurate feedback can give the player. I use in conjunction with other tools like publit.io to host the videos, also could be done on youtube. And I am happy with the result. The player offers very good statistics about the videos (from visits to know average time watched, when people stop watching, AB testing,...). Tons of features that I would only expect on very expensive tools, here I could get included. It looks ideal for video marketers.

Cons

I am very obsessed with the speed. As I am afraid to send people to a page that can be buffering or not loading fast. First time that I installed I was unhappy with speed. But now the player has a new look and I think loads faster.

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Publishing, self-employed

Used other for 6-12 months

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Great Video Player

Reviewed 4 years ago

I'm very pleased with VooPlayer. I am able to host videos while having my video players properly branded.

Pros

VooPlayer allows you to not have to depend on Youtube or Vimeo to host your videos. You can host videos using different cloud storage providers like CloudApp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. This is great if you hesitate to store your videos on Youtube or Vimeo. VooPlayer also has many video player customization features. You can make your video player look really professional while adding things like Call-to-Actions to encourage people to visit a certain site you want them to visit.

Cons

Sometimes the video player can be bit buggy. I've had to contact support a few times to report about the bugs. In my experience, they've been responsive in trying to fix the issues.

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51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Great view for video marketing

Reviewed 5 years ago

upload my video and track my view analytics

Pros

good features with video customisation for marketing,fast and secure way to host the video any way from the cloud

Cons

Hosting fees are little high and the support team should me more active to support at any time ,overall good way for your business marketing

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Gary S.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Perfect For Embedding Video On Your Website

Reviewed 5 years ago

Been using it for about a year and it's my go-to app for embedding video on my website. Aside form being able to add call to actions, you can customize your player so it looks great on your website, even with Youtube videos.

Pros

Vooplayer is very easy to use and had a nice, easy to understand interface. You also have the option of uploading video to Vooplayer and have them host it or use a link from Youtube, Vimeo and other video platforms.

Cons

I wish there was more storage. You are currently given a total allotment of storage, would be better if you had a monthly allootment that resets each month, like how Vimeo does it.

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Moshe M.

E-Learning, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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Amazing tool! After so much searching...

Reviewed 3 years ago

see above

Pros

I love the ease of use and the every expanding capabilities I keep on learning new wonderful features and it has really benefited my website e-learning experience. I investigated and subscribed to other platforms such as Vimeo and Spollightr is miles ahead. The support can not be surpassed. BOTTOM LINE: I LOVE IT!

Cons

I can't think of anything offhand, but the more I use it... perhaps... :)

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Andrew R.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Exceptional Customer Service

Reviewed 3 months ago
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Highly responsive and helpful customer service. Provided details of an issue we were having with their code and a response received within a few hours promising to resolve the issue within the week.Really appreciate the rapid turnaround.

Cons

Not that I am aware of. Any issues have been resolved.

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Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Highly customisable playing options, granular analytics

Reviewed 4 years ago

I need to collect email before seeing a training video that is gated, and then see who watched my video and how much. Vooplayer allows me to do that perfectly.

Pros

The analytics and support are standout features for me. VooPlayer shows me how engaging my videos are, who is most interested in them, and how I should spend my time in following up leads and what to include in future videos.

Cons

Some tricky following a couple of the support documents, but the support through the chat was outstanding and helped me achieve exactly how I wanted my setup to be.

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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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I'd give Vooplayer twenty stars if I could

Reviewed 4 years ago

Vooplayer allows me to use video marketing in the most robust and flexible way possible.

Pros

Vooplayer is THE go to video cloud tool. It does more things than all the others combined. Overlays, automation, CRM connection, personalization. It does all these things. I have used all the others, and they are good, but Vooplayer takes it to the next level. Especially for a marketer that needs to have flexibility above all else. I highly recommend Vooplayer

Cons

The UX could be improved a bit. It's a little bit clunky and a little bit slow.

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Thomas S.

Design, self-employed

Used monthly for 2+ years

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Great and easy to use video player for your website

Reviewed 2 years ago

I play slideshows of my clients with it.

Pros

I really like how fast it is to set everything up. Once you have customized the colours of the player to your brand you can easily copy them to the next video you upload. It is also great that VooPlayer integrates with pCloud. This way I can host the videos on pCloud without them needing space on the VooPlayer storage.

Cons

I had an issue with the player on mobile iOS devices. Needed to fiddle around a little bit until I found the right settings for compatibility.