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Case study: How PizzaTV found success with SmartVideo

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Case study: How PizzaTV found success with SmartVideo

Like many other businesses, PizzaTV uses video to tell a story and cultivate brand credibility with their hard-earned target audience. Embedding YouTube videos on their website created a poor experience plagued with slow startup times and stall-outs during playback. Then they found SmartVideo.

How to add videos to an Elementor website

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How to add videos to an Elementor website

As great as Elementor is, the included options for adding a video to your site using the builder are limited. With the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress, your options are limitless.

Slow videos are a big problem: Why your video speed matters

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Slow videos are a big problem: Why your video speed matters

When it comes to any online service, speed matters. Even milliseconds of buffering can have a catastrophic effect on business. Just like websites, video speed matters too.

Bringing professional video to WP Courseware customers

Bringing professional video to WP Courseware customers

WP Courseware is the most-used learning management system plugin. It allows WordPress users to easily create and manage interactive online courses with a drag and drop interface. If you’re familiar with creating posts and pages on WordPress, then WP Courseware’s learning curve is a small one.

A deep look at the SmartVideo widget

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A deep look at the SmartVideo widget

Looking for a way to add clean, accelerated, professional videos to your WordPress site with ease? With the SmartVideo widget, you can instantly add a clean, accelerated SmartVideo anywhere on your WordPress site.

Do YouTube videos impact the speed of your site?

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Do YouTube videos impact the speed of your site?

Page load speed is widely recognized as an important measurement when building a website, but what about video load speed?

Feature highlight: Automatic YouTube conversions

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Feature highlight: Automatic YouTube conversions

YouTube is a great tool for site owners when used properly. To help our users make the most of YouTube without any of the drawbacks, SmartVideo includes automatic YouTube conversions as a feature in every pricing tier.

Say hello to the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress 🎉

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Say hello to the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress 🎉

Although SmartVideo has already been installed by users on countless WordPress sites, today, it's easier than ever. WordPress users can now install and manage SmartVideo right from their WordPress dashboard. No more messing around with JavaScript or your site's header 🙌

12 Pros & Cons of YouTube Embeds for Your Website (2026)

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12 Pros & Cons of YouTube Embeds for Your Website (2026)

Thinking about embedding YouTube videos? It's free and easy, but comes with hidden costs like traffic leaks, ads, and privacy issues. Here are 12 pros and cons you need to know in 2026.

Auto-playing background videos are hard, so let's make it easy

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Auto-playing background videos are hard, so let's make it easy

In theory, adding a background video to your site is as simple as including the autoplay keyword in your video tags. Unfortunately, there's one major catch.

After 500 million video streams, here's what we've learned

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After 500 million video streams, here's what we've learned

In a previous post, we announced that we've delivered over 500 million video streams [https://swarmify.com/blog/500-million-video-streams-later-swarmify-is-celebrating-a-major-milestone/] on behalf of publishers both large and small. It's been an incredible journey talking with customers, streaming countless videos for small businesses, monitoring playback performance, and making

Dear online media companies, stop declaring video bankruptcy!

Dear online media companies, stop declaring video bankruptcy!

We've been around awhile now and work with all sorts of video publishers both large and small, accelerating and delivering over 500 million streams [https://swarmify.com/blog/500-million-video-streams-later-swarmify-is-celebrating-a-major-milestone/] in the past two years alone. Unfortunately, there's an increasingly disturbing trend we've observed among

500 million video streams later, Swarmify is celebrating a major milestone

500 million video streams later, Swarmify is celebrating a major milestone

Video acceleration company, Swarmify, announces they have optimized 500 million streams since launching their platform two years ago. CEO and Co-Founder, Nathan Barnett, says his team developed the product to help solve for some of the toughest issues in video streaming: buffer and stream quality. According to him, they have

3 ways the repeal of #NetNeutrality is good for the Internet

3 ways the repeal of #NetNeutrality is good for the Internet

How to make lemonade from a big bag of lemons ;) It probably seems like there is nothing good to gain from repeal of net-neutrality. But in every challenge there exists an opportunity, so let’s dive right in… 1) Citizens of the Internet were able to come together across divisions

Using YouTube on your site is no free lunch

Using YouTube on your site is no free lunch

Your website is important to you and your business. At some point, you decided that publishing video on your website was the required next step in telling your story, building credibility, capturing the attention of your visitors, and boosting engagement with your product, service, or message. You put in the

Giving thanks to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

Giving thanks to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

We had too many choices anyways -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradox of choice — no more! Wow, so get this, now when you want to watch video content on the Internet, some of it is going to play perfectly well and other video content will buffer, stall, and just be bad quality. Now instead

The future: Reality meets The Sims

The future: Reality meets The Sims

It all starts with the iPhone Apple recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone which is the birth of the modern smartphone era. If you consider that for a moment, it almost seems crazy to think that in less than a decade, that small hand held smart phone

Embraer Innova Week

Embraer Innova Week

It was our pleasure to participate in the recent innovation week at one of the premier private jet manufacturers, Embraer [http://www.embraer.com/]. Seeing a big company trying to inspire their workers to keep an entrepreneurial mindset is one of the best ways in my opinion to keep them

How to get a guaranteed 80% decrease in video rebuffers

How to get a guaranteed 80% decrease in video rebuffers

On Tuesday, an announcement was made that probably felt groundbreaking to most, but a bit meager to us. Limelight announced they would provide a money-back guarantee if they failed to improve video re-buffer rates by 10% relative to other CDN’s. While all improvement is great (and needed), 10% is

Why we partnered with W3 Total Cache to bring video acceleration to WordPress

Why we partnered with W3 Total Cache to bring video acceleration to WordPress

Bringing Netflix-quality delivery to the WordPress universe When the idea of partnering with W3 Edge, provider of W3 Total Cache, first came up, I was warned with, “Frederick Townsend (CEO of W3 Edge) is fanatical about performance and making the web experience faster. So above all else, he is going

Buffer Rate Vanity Metrics in Video

Buffer Rate Vanity Metrics in Video

Our team talks to publishers and media companies daily and one theme that constantly comes up is the 1% buffer rate. By this I mean, the publisher says that they are tracking the amount of time spent buffering versus watching video and that the rate of buffering to video watching

Inc.com covers Swarmify | “The Real Pied Piper Is Trying to End Buffering Forever”

Inc.com covers Swarmify | “The Real Pied Piper Is Trying to End Buffering Forever”

“Video Buffering Matters” Current attempts to end video playback interruptions are similar to blowing on a Nintendo 64 game cartridge back in the 90’s. The solution doesn’t address the problem, and we’re still waiting for our videos to stop stalling out mid-way through. Inc.com dives into

Q&A Huffington Post: Why video playback fails

Q&A Huffington Post: Why video playback fails

Have you ever wondered why sometimes Netflix works without a hitch, but YouTube gives you a never-ending buffer wheel? If you think the solution to this common, Internet-wide issue is upgrading your home internet speed, think again. Nathan Barnett, Swarmify’s CEO, answers this question and more in: Q&

How should we measure video quality of experience

How should we measure video quality of experience

There have been a couple of reports lately that echo what previous studies and our data have shown > Video buffering is bad for business So the issue becomes, how do we measure video buffering and what is good and what is bad. Average Buffer Time is the wrong way

The great video hypocrisy

The great video hypocrisy

Let's start with a story and see if you can relate. Don’t you hate when you're watching a video on ____________.com and, suddenly, it just stalls/hangs/fails? Fill in the blank. Now, ask your friends, neighbors, co-workers the same question... Every one of them