SmartVideo

Here's the latest about SmartVideo, the world's fastest video CDN and online video platform.

How to Make a Video Autoplay on Squarespace (2026)

Frustrated by Squarespace videos not playing automatically? Here's exactly how to force autoplay on any device without tanking your page speed.

How to Add Videos to Your Squarespace Website (2026 Guide)

Squarespace gives you several ways to add video, but each has trade-offs. This guide covers Video Blocks, embeds, background video, and SmartVideo — with step-by-step instructions for each.

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Creating a Professional Video Experience with Beaver Builder (2026)

YouTube embeds slow down Beaver Builder sites and leak traffic. Here is how to build a professional, distraction-free video experience instead.

SmartVideo Updates (May 2020)

Everyone loves updates, right? Well, we’ve made some to our WordPress plugin and Swarmify Dashboard and want to let you know about them!

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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.

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Why Slow Video Is Killing Your Conversions

Your video has two seconds to start playing before viewers leave. Learn what causes slow video, how buffering kills conversions, and 5 proven fixes.

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.

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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.

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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 🙌

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How to Create an Autoplaying Background Video with HTML & CSS

Background videos must be muted, looped, and use playsinline to autoplay across browsers. Here's the complete HTML and CSS implementation guide for 2026.

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

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

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

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