Editor’s note (August 2026): the 80/20 Guarantee described below was a limited-time promotion announced in May 2017. It is no longer offered, and Swarmify no longer sells per-GB bandwidth pricing. Current SmartVideo plans, trial, and terms are on our pricing page.
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 nothing to get excited about.
Here at Swarmify, we care more about video delivery than anyone else, probably even more than is healthy… 10% is just not good enough. A 10% improvement to the industry average 28% buffer rate only decreases it to 25%. That means 1 in 4 video views still re-buffer. We don’t think that’s something to be proud of, let alone shout from the rooftops about.
28% Re-Buffer Rate Industry Wide
This is different, way different
Swarmify brings real change to your video delivery. We provide a patent pending, realtime client-side CDN blending that blows the competition out of the water. Using a single CDN or server side switching is the old way. It can’t compete with our edge network-aware intelligence that seamlessly blends and switches between networks in realtime. Never again will your users suffer from subpar or intermittent performance. Our SmartVideo solution adapts, self-heals, and mitigates network issues where it matters most: at the client edge.
80/20 Guarantee
80% Re-Buffer Reduction/20% Revenue Increase
Because we care so much, we decided to provide a meaningful guarantee that would significantly impact your business. For a limited time in 2017, we offered a money-back guarantee: if you implemented our Smart Video solution for 90 days, you would see an 80% reduction in re-buffers and/or a 20% lift in your video ad revenue. All of this at the same per-GB pricing you were already paying at the time. Same offer as Limelight, except we went bigger… 8x bigger. Plus, we were giving you what you really care about: more revenue
Maybe that’s something to shout from the rooftops about
