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Wistia Overview

What is Wistia?

Wistia is a complete video marketing platform that helps teams create, host, market, and measure their videos and webinars—all in one place. With Wistia, you can easily create professional videos, host webinars, collect and send leads to your marketing automation platform, and more. As you level up your video marketing strategy, Wistia has your back with educational resources and world-class support.

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Product Description

Wistia provides video hosting for business.


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Wistia
Company Website
Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
Cambridge, MA
Twitter
@wistia
29,363 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
207 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Wistia provides professional video hosting for business. Engage your prospects, customers, and employees with video.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A handy video tool for small business needs!"
Easy to navigate and intuitive to use. I get to do everything I need - publishing, editing, transcribing videos. The best part is that they are alw...
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Sandra S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great Platform to analize video"
The software provides detailed metrics that help identify where your videos are getting views, making it easy to identify areas for improvement. ...
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Vicky R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Loving Wistia!"
I recently held a webinar through Wisita and loved the look and how I could put our panelists "on-stage" during. Our main host is very interactive ...
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Sales Representative
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Wistia?

How easy it is to upload a video, and in addition to that being able to send a specific link to a prospect and look at their views of it. We also use it quite a bit in our follow up process if we need to share a video that needs to be shared with more folks.

Like the customization and copying functionality as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

It can be difficult to find previously made videos if you are looking for a specific video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to host a large number of short videos and share them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Digital Marketing Director
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Wistia?

Easy to implement and train the team on. Customization of visuals makes it really easy for our front-end website use. Analytics & video trends make it easy to understand how people are interacting. And the ability to replace media without changing links is a gamechanger over Youtube, etc. for any content where updating information without drastically changing the video is necessary. We use this for almost every landing page we make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

Its only downside I guess is it doesn't contribute so directly to a discoverability strategy like posting on Youtube does. I feel "stuck" posting videos to youtube for our content & SEO strategy but wishing they had the features that Wistia does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Video use in our marketing funnel that doesn't require developers but creates a highly customizable experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SS
Director, Demand Generation and Sales Development
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Wistia?

- Wide range of features

- Marketing Automation integration (ours is Marketo)

- Frequent innovation (such as the webinar capability, collaboration)

- Strong analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

- Confusing media costs--not easy to determine the correct plan based on how many videos we have and plan to add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Wistia to store and host our video content, including archived webinars, videos embedded in our website, blog posts etc. Wistia's embed codes make it easy for us to store and access video content without contstntly moving video files between applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Wistia?

I like the Wistia is so user-friendly. It does the basics of what I need, and the more I use it I find features that are easy to add. My favourite part is the display and the fact that you can replace an existing video with an update in mere seconds. I highly recommend Wistia!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

I really can't think of anything. It's fantastic!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love the analytics. It was great to observe during an online conference. I could tell which video sessions were a hit and which were not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning
AE
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Wistia?

Personally, the on video CTA's and annotations just make video a much more conversive experience, previously it's been difficult to easily convert someone from a video with them having to manually type in a url in an end card. This feature makes the player an interactive space for lead capture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

Honestly, there isn't much! The support team are fantastic and really helpful with onboarding and success measurement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving our viewer engagement analysis issue. We struggle with the normal video players to see how users and potential customers are navigating and interacting with our videos. Wistia has solved this for us, additionally they've really helped us with our webinars! Making them easier to access, more information rich straight into our CRM and also more interactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JE
Pre-press/Graphic Design Web Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Wistia?

Primarily, we have really benefitted from the robust API that Wistia provides. We have been able to build our video service around the functionality that it provides. It is also a great resource for expanding our videooffereings as there are always new tutorials, video blogs and insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

The new pricing model works less well for us than the previous one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

A place to host our videoes and allow for customization on a per user basis. It also allows us to quickly set up webinars to help expand our sales funnel for our digital services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Wistia?

Appears the platform and features are getting more robust each quarter. Performance and ease of use are great. The integration with HubSpot adds some nice features, but is still limited by the Marketing Events object. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

For the Events, using the Marketing Events object in HubSpot for tracking can be limiting with your workflows. Zapier also limited for Events. Clearly the primary functionality is still video plays, but if Events/Webinars are going to be a core feature the integrations need to step up on those sides as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to score prospects based on the percentage of video watched is a great feature. Also being able to see what people watch and when adds a lot of flexibility to our nurtures and follow-up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Wistia?

Shows statistics on video consumption - what people watched and when we lost the majority of crowd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

Some of the UI is a bit confusing - copying vs. moving files and the use of the video channel vs. the projects

They also missed the opportunity using AI to create time lines of short videos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Wistia:

It is mostly very easy, but the copy and move are not trivial.

Also note that their support is only by email not by phone.

And lastly we used their video channel and it is fine, but sometime there are conflicts in the CSS between them and our site's CSS style sheet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to host our technical training videos and see how our customer consume it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BJ
Manager of Communications
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Wistia?

It is very easy to upload AND download videos, easy to organize, and easy to share. We use Wistia almost daily in reviewing videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

I wish there was an option for a public facing feed of videos in addition to the sharable links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wistia helps us easily share videos at all stages of the video editing and approval process. There is no need for huge file exchanges. Wistia is also very easy to share with external partners who need downloadable versions of our videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Wistia?

It is so easy to learn the platform and use it across all integrated teams. Our team creates a lot of videos and hosts a lot of webinars globally. We count on Wistia to upload all of our videos, add in captions, and promote across prospects and customers. Plus the insights and analytics tools are always so helpful when measuring performance! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wistia?

They have a lot of new AI capabilities now, such as translating into different languages. It'll be awesome to have more tools like AI audio transcripts into different languages in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wistia solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need a centralized platform to host all of our video and webinar content, which Wistia solves for us! It's easy for our global teams to navigate this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.