Welcome to the 2020 Top 25 Online Video Platforms and Video Marketing Software List! Here you’ll find a shortlist of the video software solutions and companies that made the biggest impact during the year.

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1. Frame.io

Features

• Full video post production collaboration
• Team collaboration and access rights and controls
• Time stamped comments and threaded replies
• Mobile app for easy collaboration on the go

Pricing

• Frame.io pricing starts at $15 a month.
• Packaging is based on projects, storage and collaborators.

Track Record

• Been in business since 2014
• Major venture funding
• Anchor customers Disney, CBS, BuzzFeed
• Cutting edge technology

What’s cool

• Integrations with video editing tools like Final Cut Pro and Premier
• Interactive collaboration
• Access rights make it easy to manage multiple clients

2. Cincopa

Features

• Templates that support all media types: video, audio and photo.
• Mix different multimedia types in one gallery.
• Audio player with playlist, fixed and floating layout.
• Add custom email collection forms from HTML code or external URL.

Pricing

• Free plan is offered.
• $99 for life plan is most popular
• Plans are based on traffic and storage
• Enterprise plans available

Track Record

• Been in business since 2006
• Large global customer base
• Proven at scale

What’s cool

• The ability to mix different media types in one experience, video, images, audio.
• Video player is easily custom skinned
• Media library templates
• Cost is attractive

3. Vimeo

Features

• Video hosting and streaming for businesses of all sizes
• Advanced privacy settings
• Private review pages
• Live streaming capabilities
• Multiple user access and team management

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $20 per month.
• Limited web support is included
• Plans are based on features, storage and bandwidth

Track Record

• Platform is one of the original online video platforms
• Thousands of global customers
• Significant venture capital raised

What’s cool

• Perfect for simple video hosting and publishing on the web
• Easy tools to password protect videos.
• Premium tools for subscriptions and monetization
• Live video streaming capabilities

4. Brightcove

Features

• Video hosting and CDN services for both on demand and live streaming
• Ad integration support
• Analytics
• APIs and SDK for development and 3rd party platform apps.
• Video Gallery toolset for building video experiences

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $199 a month
• Plans are based on features and video plays
• Account management and support included

Track Record

• Been in business since 2004
• Publicly listed company (NSADAQ: BCOV)
• Hundreds of customers
• Global enterprise customer base
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Easily create branded video sites connect to a domain
• Interactive feature sets
• Video security and SSO features

5. Wistia

Features

• Advanced Analytics, including identity tracking and engagement
• Organize video content into playlists that can be assigned to a player
• Record video from a web browser
• Video security features, including IP white listing and password protection

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $99 a month
• Pricing is based on the number of videos
• Support is included only with premium plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2006
• One of the original video hosting platforms
• Used on over 300,000 websites

What’s cool

• Simple yet powerful video hosting
• Video email gating and lead generation
• Fast loading HTML5 video player that works on mobile
• Simple video capture tool

6. JWPlayer

Features

• HTML5 video player with full customization and configuration options
• Video advertising platform and integration with ad exchanges and networks
• iOS and Android video app creation
• Adaptive streaming allowing for fluid playback across any device and bandwidth scenario

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $25 a month
• Plans are based on the number of videos and plays
• Supports high volume streaming

Track Record

• Been in business since 2007
• Raise over $50 million in venture funding
• Global customer base
• Proven at scale

What’s cool

• Video player is fast and flexible for customization
• APIs have excellent documentation
• Global support and account management
• Simple interface

7. Powtoon

Features

• Create studio-quality HD live and animated videos in minutes
• Huge library of professionally-designed templates, scenes, characters, props, millions of videos, soundtracks, text
• Integrations with YouTube, Facebook, Facebook Ads Manager, Twitter, Wistia, Hubspot.

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $16 a month
• Plans are based on the number of video exports per month
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2011
• Proven customer base with logos such as Coca-Cola, Costco, Pfizer
• Significant venture capital raised

What’s cool

• Super easy to create a video out of thin air
• Thousands of templates, audio, scenes, characters, etc to choose from
• Helpful support and lots of online resources

8. Vidyard

Features

• Video hosting
• Create and design a branded video player, change color size, etc.
• Engagement analytics including contact tracking
• Social media and marketing integrations
• Salesforce.com integration and app

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $1,500 a month
• Plans are based on features and number of videos
• Account management and support included

Track Record

• Been in business since 2012
• Significant venture capital raised
• Reputable customer base and agency partners
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Tools for creating video
• Integrations with MAPs and CRMs
• Interactive video tools

9. Wirewax

Features

• Transform any video into a connected, interactive video with little or no effort Detects faces & objects in video
• Add tags to anything in a video

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $69 a month
• Plans are based on features and video length
• Account management and support included

Track Record

• Been in business since 2009
• Reputable customer base and agency partners
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Full service solution for end-to-end concept to deployment
• Commerce solutions for retail
• Built in video player

10. BombBomb

Features

• Create video emails easily with a web creator
• Get analytics on exactly who’s opening emails, clicking links, watching your videos, etc.
• Send individual emails or an entire series of emails automatically.

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $49 a month
• Plans are based on the number of contacts
• Plans include support

Track Record

• Been in business since 2006
• Raised venture funding
• Global customer base
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Record and send video emails from Gmail and Outlook
• Real-time alerts for quick follow up
• Easy to roll across sales, account or support teams

11. MovingImage

Features

• Secure Enterprise Video Platform allows for easy integration into existing IT ecosystem
• SSL encryption, referrer protection and IP whitelisting
• Mobile App for managing and uploading videos on the go

Pricing

• Pricing is not publicly listed
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2004
• Proven with large brands like Merck, Bayer, Vodafone and VW
• Hundreds of global customers

What’s cool

• End-to-end enterprise video platform
• Easy to use interface along with user management for teams
• Robust video security
• Mobile application

12. Lightstream

Features

• Start a live stream from a web browser.
• The best encoding settings are automatically selected.
• Mobile app for stream management, start, stop, and switch scenes.

Pricing

• Free unrestricted version
• Enterprise versions available, contact vendor for pricing.
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2014
• Proven company with hundreds of customers.
• Company is head quartered in Chicago, USA.

What’s cool

• Super simple yet powerful tool for live streaming
• Free and reliable solution for broadcasts
• Collaborate on broadcasts by sending a link to remotely add cameras to the stream.

13. Hippo Video

Features

• Create or record videos quickly from a web browser.
• Capture screens, webcam recording and audio
• Trim clips, cut, crop, add text and annotate
• Add background music and narrate

Pricing

• Free unrestricted version.
• Paid plans starting at $15 a month.
• Enterprise versions available.
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2016.
• Global brand with service anywhere in the world.
• Trusted by 5,000+ global customers.

What’s cool

• Free to get started.
• Record videos in support tickets from Freshdesk, Zendesk and FB Workplace.
• Integrates with Gmail, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Slides and D2L.

14. Boxcast

Features

• All plans include unlimited broadcast & unlimited viewers
• Stream to Facebook, YouTube, Periscope, and others
• Ticketed Monetization
• Password protection

Pricing

• Boxcast pricing starts at $99.99 a month.
• Packaging based on feature sets

Track Record

• Been in business since 2009
• Headquartered in the United States
• Experience with large enterprise brands
• Accessible customer support.

What’s cool

• End-to-end solution
• Mobile hardware encoding
• Scales to handle large live events
• Intuitive user interface

15. StoryXpress

Features

• Convert images, text and video clips into personalized videos.
• Leverage open APIs to automate the video creation process.
• Convert image galleries into rich beautiful videos.
• Create completely individualized videos with interactive elements.

Pricing

• Contact StoryXpress for pricing.
• Support is included with all plans.

Track Record

• Been in business since 2013.
• Experience with large enterprise brands
• Innovative product roadmap.
• Accessible customer support.

What’s cool

• Scalable solution for creating personalized videos
• Perfect for automatically creating product videos from photos.
• Amazingly flexible with open APIs.
• Intuitive user interface.

16. Microsoft Stream

Features

• Easily standup a secure video portal connected to an existing SharePoint instance.
• Organize content into channels and groups with different access levels
• Enhance accessibility and discoverability with intelligence features such as transcripts and facial recognition.
• Easily share video in SharePoint posts and pages

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $3 a user, a month
• Pricing is user-based
• Support is included
• Integration with SharePoint included in all plans

Track Record

• Platform launch in 2017
• Product line of Microsoft

What’s cool

• Makes it easy to stand up a secure video portal for employees without IT resources.
• Upload and distribute videos within SharePoint
• Facial recognition and advanced meta data management

17. Wipster

Features

• Comment and reply on a specific part of the video, image or PDF.
• Feedback automatically collated into a worklist.
• Team collaboration within the same account, including user roles.
• Receive comment notifications wherever the user is in the app.

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $8.25 a month per team
• Plans are based on the number of video projects and other assets in the system.
• Perfect for agencies

Track Record

• Been in business since 2012
• Raised venture funding
• Global customer base
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Very easy to use and invite team members
• Integrates with video platforms like Wistia, Vidyard and Brightcove
• Global support and account management
• Video-centric features

18. Grabyo

Features

• Broadcast premium-quality live streams to Facebook, Periscope, Twitter and YouTube
• Add graphics and animated video graphics on top of the live feeds.
• Edit and clip video in real-time
• Collaborate with team members using shared editing tools and compositions.

Pricing

• Pricing is not publicly listed
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2013
• Proven at scale with large broadcasters
• Significant capital raised

What’s cool

• Ability to broadcast to multiple destinations at the same time.
• Real-time clipping and publishing of highlights
• Professional quality inputs and outputs

19. Dacast

Features

• Complete end-to-end video hosting, live streaming, management and delivery platform.
• Live stream is delivered via premium CDNs like Akamai and EdgeCast
• Publish directly to an HTML5 video player with advanced features such as Pay Per View paywalls.
• Stream live on Facebook.
• Stream and playback video in china.

Pricing

• Dacast is offered via four plans and starts at $19 a month.
• Plans are based on usage such as bandwidth, storage and viewer hours.
• Support comes standard with all plans.

Track Record

• One of the original legacy video platforms, in operation since 2008.
• Very large global consumer and enterprise customer base.
• Reliable video delivery via relationships with premium CDNs such as Akamai and EdgeCast.
• Recently acquired video platform vzaar

What’s cool

• Out-of-the-box video live streaming with minimal setup.
• Offers video delivery into mainland China.
• Video monetization and paywall options included.
• Option to white label the video platform.
• Robust API set.

20. Mindstamp

Features

• Type on top of the video to add a comment into the video.
• Ask free response, multiple choice, voice, and video questions.
• Add buttons throughout the video to prompt viewers to move throughout the video, open a link, start email, & more.
• Highlight and draw on the screen to draw attention to specific parts.
• Add clickable images throughout a video
• Video analytics including individual play reports

Pricing

• Offered via four plans and starting at $15 per month.
• Plans are based on the number of interactive videos created, playback time and storage, as well as additional branding features.
• A free plan is also available.
• Support is available with all plans.

Track Record

• Been in business since 2018
• Very reputable customers.
• Positive customer feedback on 50Wheel and other review sites.
• Proven at scale with large agencies and brands

What’s cool

• Easily make any video interactive
• Probably most affordable “enterprise-grade” interactive video platform.
• Great for elearning with quiz features
• Personable and responsive support

21. Rocketium

Features

• Built-in article-to-video converter.
• Create videos automatically in mass from virtually any data source,
• Extensive branding options. Import your logo, brand color palette, fonts, music, intros, and outros.
• Work with your colleagues and collaborate together on projects in teams.
• API and white-label options.

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $49 a month and there are four plans to choose from.
• Plans are based on export and branding features.
• Support is offered with all plans.

Track Record

• Been in business since 2015
• Enterprise customer base with brands such as Amazon, Canon and ESPN.
• Proven platform at scale.

What’s cool

• No design experience is needed to use Rocketium.
• Over 200 themes and templates.
• Multi-language support + automatic translation to 100+ languages
• Make videos in square, portrait, and landscape orientations for mobile devices, tablets, and desktop.

22. Panopto

Features

• Launch and manage secure portals for hosting and sharing video content
• Easy-to-use live streaming and video recording
• Advanced video search to located content based on a variety of parameters
• Robust APIs and SDKs

Pricing

• Pricing is not publicly listed.
• Packaging includes support.
• Designed for companies with employees of all sizes.

Track Record

• One of the original legacy video platform, in business since 2007.
• Proven global customer base of all sizes including small business to enterprise.
• Proven at scale with thousands of employees.

What’s cool

• Mobile apps to capture and record video
• Easily set up and brand protected video portals.
• Full live streaming capabilities for town halls
• Captioning and transcriptions.

23. Biteable

Features

• Hundreds of animated, live action or photo scenes in lots of different styles and pre-made video templates.
• Create and edit video on a simple drag-and-drop timeline.
• Choose royalty free music from a large, high-quality music library.
• Share completed videos on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook with a direct sync

Pricing

• Two plans to choose from including a plan with free access to the studio.
• Annual plan starts at $23 a month and includes unlimited exports and royalty free content.

Track Record

• Been in business since 2014
• Proven customer base with logos such as Shopify, Microsoft, Mattel, Hilton and IBM

What’s cool

• Easy way to create personalized content experiences.
• Hundreds of templates to choose from
• Royalty free stock music and photos

24. Quickpage

Features

Pricing

• Quickpage is offered for both individuals and teams starting at $29 a month.
• A free trial is also offered.
• Support is included with all plans

Track Record

• Been in business since 2016
• Thousands of customer around the world.
• Best customer ratings in respective categories.

What’s cool

• Record videos from any mobile phone
• Share videos in a branded page or via email
• Video hosting and sharing to Facebook
• So easy, anyone can use it!

25. Kaltura

Features

•  Capture and manage recorded videos of lectures
• Organize content, search media, edit, moderate, create playlists
• Full HD live streaming and archiving
• Video portals and security

Pricing

• Pricing starts at $499 per month
• Support is an additional cost
• Plans are based on features, storage and bandwidth

Track Record

• Been in business since 2006
• One of the original online video platforms
• Trusted by thousands of global brands
• Used for mission critical live streaming

What’s cool

• Robust video player development framework
• Video portals with user management
• Advanced meta data and video workflow management