So, you have probably seen some of the horror stories about YouTube. Getting videos
or accounts shut down for no reason, a player that looks terrible, related videos OF YOUR COMPETITION, and a doze icons, and links that drive your traffic AWAY from your page.
While I love YouTube for ranking videos and driving traffic from their site, their embedded player can be a nightmare.
Fortunately, I have been able to find and test number of solutions. Unfortunately, most of those solutions have problems of their own. Some try to 'mask' the ugliness of the player, but that still leaves your mission-critical videos vulnerable to YouTube banning your videos.
Some provide nice players, but you have to host on S3, which is not optimized for video playback, so you get SLOOOOW starts and occasional buffering.
And some solutions are just not easy for a non-techy to use.
Enter Kaptiwa. Of all the players I have tried, this one solves all the solutions. The videos are hosted and OPTIMIZED FOR PLAYBACK, so they play instantly, and no buffering in the middle of your masterpiece!
They also have a full-featured, customizable video player, with branding and marketing tools built-in. The player also has analytics options, so you can add FB pixels and Google Analytics.
It even gives you the ability to run ads on your videos... skippable ads, pop-ups, etc.
