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“Goodbye, YouTube embeds. Will not miss you! The thing I hate the most about YouTube embeds, other than the bloated code, is that they can steal my traffic with their branding and suggested videos. Swarmify brings an amazing solution.”
SmartVideo Reviews, With a Link to Every Source
SmartVideo holds a 4.9 out of 5 across 51 customer reviews collected by Endorsal. Every quote below is published somewhere you can check it — Endorsal, Capterra, the WordPress.org plugin page, or one of our case studies.
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Results worth a full write-up
Seven customers let us publish the whole story — what was broken, what changed, and what it was worth.
- 10% more conversions
“We’ve had a 10% increase in conversion rate from lead to customer. We believe this is directly related to the addition of video to the website.”
Pedro Cuencas Director of Digital Marketing, White Jacobs & Associates
- 200% more mobile leads
“We attained a +200% conversion rate increase in our Leadgen Funnels.”
Jorge Hernandez CEO & Founder, Skyward SEO
- Hosting costs halved
“Swarmify saved us hours of development, significantly reduced our disk space and bandwidth utilization, which in turn cut down our hosting expenses in half.”
Vladimir Sterle CEO, Proficiens Academy
- 20,000 users in 2 months
“Exponential growth of users from only a hundred to thousands of users every month. We acquired 20,000 users in about 2 months now.”
Grandy Prajayakti CTO, ProDigi
- 2× lighter pages
“SmartVideo loaded immediately; meanwhile, YouTube took 5 seconds to start playing. SmartVideo immediately became a no-brainer.”
Aaron Harris IT Director, PizzaTV
- A player with no one else’s logo
“Swarmify helped us with removing video branding issues and optimized our video delivery.”
Alexander van Aken CEO, Creaktor
- Buffer-free for paying members
“My videos load and play instantly. Every second counts when it comes to online sales.”
Dr. Nic Lucas Founder, X10 Entrepreneur
The full wall
13 of the 51 reviews collected through Endorsal — the six case-study customers above aren’t repeated — 4 from the WordPress.org plugin listing, and all 11 from Capterra. The WordPress.org and Capterra sets are complete, and the rest of the Endorsal set is one click away.
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“Love this app. I have videos on my site and this takes away the annoying suggested videos and makes them look more professional and faster. I installed Swarmify on my WordPress site and the process was very easy via the plugin.”
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“Bye YouTube! SmartVideo is incredibly fast, stable, and bloat-free!”
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“Our search-engine rankings went up after we switched over to Swarmify. Making the switch has led to a significant increase in our business.”
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“I implemented this on my site and immediately saw an impact. I am very impressed with how simple they have made the entire setup. It works very well and as advertised.”
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“The attention of buyers is really short, so fast video loading makes an enormous impact.”
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“Best video player and video CDN. I highly recommend SmartVideo! I love using SmartVideo because it boosts the load times of my website and video plays, by preventing YouTube from stealing my site visitors.”
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“The videos load fast, there’s no lag, and the player is customizable and looks professional.”
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“This tool is easy to setup and as easy to use. Does the job as intended, no-nonsense. Really enhances the experience of having video on your website.”
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“Very Fast and SUPERB support! I was using Wistia and switched to Swarmify. My video now loads really fast!”
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“I’ve honestly NEVER seen video play this fast on the web before. I used to think YouTube was reasonably quick — Swarmify makes YouTube look like a Model T racing a Ferrari.”
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“Bye, Vimeo. I was using Vimeo for my courses, but it can be expensive. The solution was Swarmify. From the moment you press play, it plays. No buffering problems. I’ve used it for almost 200 videos and it works like a charm.”
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“After using Swarmify we are incredibly annoyed. But only because of our mistake of not having used Swarmify before. Super fast video player and CDN!”
WordPress.org · 27 Jul 2026
“I’ve been using swarmify for about 3 years. Great plugin and a great team behind it. Support has also been excellent. James has been very responsive and genuinely helpful whenever I’ve had questions. Very happy with Swarmify overall!”
WordPress.org · 14 Jul 2026
“We switched from using Vimeo to Swarmify several years ago and couldn’t be more happy with the change. We appreciate swarmify’s streaming service, but their customer service has also been excellent.”
WordPress.org · 9 Jun 2025
“This plugin is a pretty smooth and seamless way to get a video CDN that works well with Vimeo. Eventually Vimeo started trying to charge us for bandwidth at a very high rate and Swarmify was a big help in getting the costs down. Videos load fast and support is helpful and personal.”
WordPress.org · 20 Apr 2024
“It’s an absolutely great plugin that I highly recommend… HIDES ALL THE YOUTUBE BRANDING, and all the annoying Related Videos pop-ups at the end. Makes our videos look super-professional.”
Capterra · Aug 2026
“We have been using it for 6 years now and rarely had any issues. If any arose support was lightning fast and efficient. They are also constantly working on improvements and updates.”
Capterra · Aug 2026
“James from Customer Support was awesome. On multiple occasions, he went above and beyond to help troubleshoot and fix my issues.”
Capterra · Jul 2026
“So easy to transfer to these guys after a horrendous experience with Vimeo. They helped me through it step by step and worked through the night to meet the deadline. I am so grateful.”
Capterra · Oct 2022
“I truly love this product. Having the ability to host video without the outrageous expense is absolutely amazing.”
Capterra · Nov 2021
“We use Swarmify on client websites to reduce the load time of their YouTube videos. You still host the video on Youtube but use the Swarmify player to encode and playback the video. It’s so quick!”
Capterra · Aug 2021
“The Most Important think with Video Hosting is SPEED, if you looking for video hosting for your marketing video, Just use the SWARMIFY. One of my favorite tools.”
Capterra · Nov 2020
“I like that I was able to set up SmartVideo to access my videos on YouTube and seamlessly convert the hosting on my website. Now I have unbranded video viewing on my website that doesn’t distract with YouTube elements.”
Capterra · Jun 2018
“Very easy to add to my Divi Wordpress website - just add a small chunk of code to the Headers and nothing else is needed. In return, I get all the benefits of using the YouTube server with none of the downside of ads or additional content at the end of clips. It’s really genius and one subscription covers all my sites.”
Capterra · Jun 2018
“It removes Youtube branding and ads from the videos on our site. We can also do our advertising which I have yet to do. Outstanding support.”
Capterra · Jun 2018
“Easy to set up and helpful suport. There was some problems in start, but the support team fixed all the issues.”
Capterra · Jun 2018
“Honestly, there’s nothing I don’t like about Swarmify! It’s affordable, practical, efficient, & the customer service is excellent.”
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“We’ve had a 10% increase in conversion rate from lead to customer.”
Pedro C.
Dir. of Digital Marketing, White Jacobs
Instant side-by-side winner
“SmartVideo loaded immediately; YouTube took 5 seconds to start. It became a no-brainer.”
Aaron H.
IT Director, PizzaTV
Rankings improved
“Our search-engine rankings went up after we switched over to Swarmify.”
Philip A.
Owner, Ignite Images