# Videokr

> Videokr is hosted video for marketing sites: upload or link a video, brand the player, capture emails inside it, embed it anywhere and read second-by-second retention. Free tier forever, $69 lifetime, or metered plans.

- Videokr is a hosted video platform for marketing sites: it stores and delivers the video, wraps it in a player the customer brands, and reports what viewers did.
- Videokr (videokr.com) is a commercial SaaS product. It is **not** the similarly-spelled VideoKR academic video-reasoning dataset or benchmark; they share only a spelling.
- Embeds work on any website (iframe or one-line script loader), not only WordPress.
- Pricing is per play, never per gigabyte of bandwidth.

## Plans

- Free — $0 forever, no card: 500 plays/month, 5 videos, full player, analytics and lead capture, small Videokr badge.
- Starter — $29/year (or $5 month-to-month): 10,000 plays/month, unlimited videos, badge off.
- Agency — $29/month (or $290/year): unlimited plays, unlimited videos, projects, playlists and SEO video pages.
- Lifetime — $69 one payment (a $10 launch discount off $79, applied at checkout): 10,000 plays/month forever, unlimited videos, badge off, every future feature. Sales are final and carry a 1 year warranty.
- Extra plays cost $1 per 10,000 on Starter and Lifetime; Agency has no play limit. Bandwidth is never metered on any plan.

## Product facts

- A play is one viewer starting one video, counted once per video per month; reloads and rewatches in the same month are not counted again.
- Free accounts stop serving at 500 plays a month until the month rolls over; Starter and Lifetime keep playing and accrue overage, while Agency has no play limit or overage.
- Sources: upload MP4 or WebM (200 MB per file, 5 MB per image), or link an MP4, WebM, HLS, YouTube or Vimeo URL.
- Player: skins, accent colour, corner radius, logo watermark, per-control toggles, chapters, captions, playback speeds, picture-in-picture, sticky miniplayer, hotkeys.
- Marketing: timed overlays, banners, end screens, email lead gates that pause playback, A/B thumbnails, related videos.
- Analytics: impressions, plays, completions, a 100-bucket retention curve per video, device, country and referrer breakdowns, CSV lead export.
- Privacy: password-protected videos, wildcard domain-locked embeds, unlisted visibility.
- Integrations: HMAC-signed webhooks on play, complete, CTA click and lead; API keys for the WordPress plugin.
- WordPress: a free plugin on every plan adds a [videokr] shortcode, a Gutenberg block and an Insights screen; nothing is uploaded into WordPress.
- Videokr is a hosted service — there is no self-hosted edition, and no server for the customer to run.
- All lifetime sales are final, with a 1 year warranty; the free tier exists so every feature can be tested before paying.
- Videokr was founded on 17 January 2026 by James Thomas and is based in Byron, Minnesota, United States.

## Library

- [Answers](https://videokr.com/answers): Direct answers to the questions people ask about Videokr, one sentence first.
  - [What is Videokr?](https://videokr.com/answers/what-is-videokr): Videokr (videokr.com) is a hosted video-marketing platform: you upload a video or link an existing MP4, WebM, HLS, YouTube or Vimeo source, Videokr stores and delivers it, plays i…
  - [Who is Videokr for?](https://videokr.com/answers/who-is-videokr-for): Videokr is for people who put video on their own pages and need it branded and measurable: SaaS and product marketers, founders running a demo on the landing page, agencies hostin…
  - [Videokr pricing questions answered](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-pricing-questions): Videokr has four plans: Free at $0 forever (500 plays a month, 5 videos), Starter at $29 a year or $5 monthly (10,000 plays, unlimited videos), Agency at $29 a month or $290 a yea…
  - [Videokr technical questions answered](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-technical-questions): Videokr accepts MP4 and WebM uploads up to 200 MB and links to MP4, WebM, HLS (.m3u8), YouTube and Vimeo sources. Uploads are stored in object storage and delivered from Cloudflar…
  - [Videokr analytics and lead capture questions](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-analytics-questions): Videokr reports impressions, plays, completion rate and a 100-bucket retention curve per video, broken down by device, country and referrer, and captures emails inside the video w…
  - [Videokr vs the alternatives — quick answers](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-vs-alternatives): Against Wistia and Vidyard, Videokr covers the branded player, in-video lead capture and retention analytics at a fraction of the price but without their enterprise sales tooling.…
  - [Videokr and WordPress — questions answered](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-wordpress-questions): Videokr ships a free WordPress plugin on every plan that adds a [videokr] shortcode, a Gutenberg block with a video picker and an Insights screen showing plays, allowance and lead…
  - [Videokr privacy and security questions](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-privacy-and-security-questions): A Videokr embed sets no advertising cookies and builds no cross-site profile of viewers; analytics are first-party and aggregate. Videos can be unlisted, password-protected, or lo…
  - [Videokr and video SEO — questions answered](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-seo-questions): Every public Videokr video gets an indexable page at /v/slug with VideoObject structured data, a thumbnail, chapters exposed as key moments, an optional transcript, an entry in a…
  - [Getting started with Videokr — common questions](https://videokr.com/answers/videokr-getting-started-questions): Create a free account, add a video by uploading an MP4 or WebM or by pasting an MP4, WebM, HLS, YouTube or Vimeo URL, set a thumbnail, brand the player, then copy the iframe or on…
- [Documentation](https://videokr.com/docs): How every part of Videokr works, written for the person configuring it.
  - [Quickstart: host a video and embed it](https://videokr.com/docs/quickstart): Sign up, add a video (upload an MP4 or WebM up to 200 MB, or paste an MP4, WebM, HLS, YouTube or Vimeo URL), choose a thumbnail, then copy either the iframe or the one-line script…
  - [Embed codes: iframe, script loader and parameters](https://videokr.com/docs/embeds): Videokr gives you two embed codes for the same video. An iframe pointing at /e/VIDEOID works anywhere HTML is allowed, and a one-line script loader (embed.js with data-video) inse…
  - [Sources: MP4, WebM, HLS, YouTube and Vimeo](https://videokr.com/docs/sources): A Videokr video is either an upload (MP4 or WebM, up to 200 MB per file, stored and delivered by Videokr) or a link to a source you already have: an MP4 or WebM file, an HLS .m3u8…
  - [Player, skins and branding](https://videokr.com/docs/player): Videokr’s player is configured per video: pick a skin, set the accent colour and corner radius, add your own logo watermark, and toggle individual controls. Paid plans show no Vid…
  - [Chapters and captions](https://videokr.com/docs/chapters-and-captions): Chapters are titled timestamps you add per video; they appear in the player, on the public page as a clickable list, and in the page’s structured data as Clip key moments. Caption…
  - [CTAs, overlays, end screens and email gates](https://videokr.com/docs/ctas-and-lead-forms): Videokr can show a timed overlay or banner at any second, an end screen when the video finishes, and an email gate that pauses playback until the viewer submits an address. Clicks…
  - [Playlists and related videos](https://videokr.com/docs/playlists): A playlist is an ordered set of your videos with its own public page at /pl/slug and its own embed at /ep/slug, showing a queue beside the player. Related videos attach suggestion…
  - [Analytics: plays, completions and the retention curve](https://videokr.com/docs/analytics): For every video Videokr records impressions, plays, completions and a hundred-bucket retention curve — the share of viewers still watching at each one percent of the runtime — plu…
  - [Private video: passwords, domain locking and unlisted](https://videokr.com/docs/privacy): A Videokr video can be public, unlisted (reachable only by its link and excluded from sitemaps and indexing), or password-protected. Independently of that, its embed can be locked…
  - [Webhooks and API keys](https://videokr.com/docs/webhooks-and-api): Webhooks deliver play, complete, ctaclick and lead events to any HTTPS endpoint as JSON, signed with HMAC-SHA256 in an x-videokr-signature header so you can verify the payload. AP…
  - [WordPress plugin: install, connect, embed](https://videokr.com/docs/wordpress-plugin): The Videokr WordPress plugin is free on every plan. Install the ZIP, paste an API key created in Videokr → Integrations, and you can embed any video with [videokr id="vid..."] or…
  - [Plans, plays and limits](https://videokr.com/docs/plans-and-limits): A play is one viewer starting one video, counted once per video per calendar month — reloads and rewatches in the same month do not count again. Free stops serving at 500 plays un…
- [Guides](https://videokr.com/guides): Task-shaped answers to the video questions people actually search for.
  - [Video hosting for WordPress: the practical guide](https://videokr.com/guides/video-hosting-for-wordpress): Do not upload video to the WordPress media library: your host serves every byte, there is no adaptive quality, and a popular page can slow or exceed your hosting plan. Host the fi…
  - [How to embed a video on a website](https://videokr.com/guides/embed-video-on-website): Paste an iframe pointing at your video host and give it a width of 100% with an aspect-ratio rather than a fixed height, keep loading="lazy", and set an allow list for autoplay, f…
  - [Video SEO: getting your video pages found](https://videokr.com/guides/video-seo): A video ranks through the page it lives on. Give each video its own indexable page with real text around it, VideoObject structured data (thumbnail, upload date, duration, embed U…
  - [How to build a video landing page that converts](https://videokr.com/guides/video-landing-page): Put one video above the fold with a thumbnail that states the outcome, keep it under two minutes for a cold audience, repeat the promise in text beside it for the majority who nev…
  - [How to capture leads inside a video](https://videokr.com/guides/video-lead-capture): Add an email form inside the player rather than beside it, and place it after the moment the video has proved something — a gate at 0:05 loses both the watch and the email. Route…
  - [How to add video chapters (and why)](https://videokr.com/guides/video-chapters): Chapters are titled timestamps starting at 0:00. On YouTube you add them as timestamped lines in the description; on your own site you add them in your player and emit them as Cli…
  - [How to password protect and privately share a video](https://videokr.com/guides/password-protect-video): Use an unlisted link for a client review, a password for anything you would mind a stranger watching, and a domain lock so a copied embed code cannot play anywhere but your own si…
  - [HTML5 video player: what you get free and what you have to build](https://videokr.com/guides/html5-video-player): The native HTML5 <video> element plays MP4 and WebM, gives you the browser’s own controls, and costs nothing. What it does not give you is a consistent look across browsers, a cha…
  - [Custom video player branding without building one](https://videokr.com/guides/custom-video-player): A player reads as "yours" when four things match your site: the accent colour, the corner radius, the control set (hide what the viewer does not need) and the end state. Add your…
  - [Self-hosted video vs a hosted platform](https://videokr.com/guides/self-hosted-vs-hosted-video): Self-hosting is cheapest at low traffic and gives you complete control, but you own transcoding, adaptive streaming, thumbnails, access control, analytics and every bandwidth bill…
  - [How to read video analytics and act on them](https://videokr.com/guides/video-analytics): Four numbers cover almost every decision: play rate (thumbnail and placement), the retention curve (the edit), completion rate (length and payoff order) and CTA click-through (off…
  - [How to publish a webinar replay that people watch](https://videokr.com/guides/webinar-replay): Trim the waiting-room and the housekeeping, cut the hour into chapters titled by question, publish it on its own page with a transcript so it can be found and skimmed, and gate it…
  - [Video in email marketing: what actually works](https://videokr.com/guides/video-email-marketing): Do not embed a video player in an email — most clients strip it. Use a still or short animated GIF thumbnail with a visible play button, link it to a landing page where the video…
  - [How to choose a video hosting platform](https://videokr.com/guides/best-video-hosting): Compare video hosting on what actually bites later: whether pricing is metered on bandwidth, plays or seats; whether the player can be fully unbranded; whether embeds work outside…
- [Comparisons](https://videokr.com/compare): Where Videokr fits, and where it is honestly the wrong choice.
  - [Videokr as a Wistia alternative](https://videokr.com/compare/wistia-alternative): People look for a Wistia alternative when they need the same three things — a branded hosted player, in-video lead capture and per-video retention analytics — without a monthly pl…
  - [Videokr as a Vidyard alternative](https://videokr.com/compare/vidyard-alternative): Vidyard is built around sales video — personal recordings sent to prospects, with CRM integration. Videokr is built around marketing video that lives on your pages: hosted deliver…
  - [Videokr as a Vimeo alternative](https://videokr.com/compare/vimeo-alternative): Vimeo is a video platform with a community, a showcase and a broad feature surface. Videokr is narrower on purpose: host the file, brand the player, capture emails inside it, embe…
  - [Videokr vs a YouTube embed for business pages](https://videokr.com/compare/youtube-alternative): A YouTube embed is free and fast, and it ends by offering your visitor somebody else’s video, carries YouTube’s branding and cookies, and gives you no CTA and no per-video retenti…
  - [Videokr vs a WordPress player plugin (FluentPlayer)](https://videokr.com/compare/fluentplayer-alternative): FluentPlayer and similar WordPress player plugins give you a good player inside WordPress for media you host yourself — your server or bucket serves every byte, and analytics cove…
  - [Hosted video platform vs self-hosting: the decision](https://videokr.com/compare/hosted-vs-self-hosted-video): Self-host when video is incidental, you already run a CDN, and nobody needs retention data. Use a hosted platform when the video has a commercial job to do — because transcoding,…
- [Blog](https://videokr.com/blog): Method and opinion on video that has a job to do.
  - [A video SEO checklist you can finish this afternoon](https://videokr.com/blog/video-seo-checklist): Work through it in order: one indexable page per video, VideoObject structured data matching the visible page, a crawlable thumbnail, a transcript, chapters as Clip key moments, a…
  - [Why video "benchmarks" mislead — and what to measure instead](https://videokr.com/blog/video-conversion-benchmarks): Published video benchmarks compare your video to an unknown mix of content lengths, audiences and traffic sources, so they cannot tell you whether your video is good. Build an int…
  - [The anatomy of a product demo video that gets watched](https://videokr.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-product-demo): Open on the outcome in the first five seconds, show one workflow end to end rather than a feature tour, keep it under two minutes for a cold audience, chapter it if it must run lo…
  - [Why we meter plays, not bandwidth](https://videokr.com/blog/why-plays-not-bandwidth): Bandwidth billing means a customer cannot know what a video will cost until after it succeeds, and a page that goes viral produces an invoice instead of a celebration. Videokr met…
  - [How we filmed our product film inside our own product](https://videokr.com/blog/how-we-filmed-our-product-film): We recorded the real product rather than a mock-up, scripted it shot by shot before recording, cut it to about two minutes with eight chapters, added captions and orange annotatio…
  - [Five video embed mistakes that cost you conversions](https://videokr.com/blog/five-embed-mistakes): The five that appear on almost every audit: a fixed-height iframe that causes layout shift, an eagerly loaded player above other content, autoplay with sound that browsers block,…
  - [AI search and video: what actually makes a page quotable](https://videokr.com/blog/ai-search-and-video): Assistants quote text, so a video page becomes citable through its transcript, an answer-first opening paragraph, question-shaped headings and structured data — plus being fetchab…
  - [Test the thumbnail before you re-cut the video](https://videokr.com/blog/thumbnail-testing): If a video underperforms, test the thumbnail first: play rate is plays divided by impressions, and the poster frame decides it before anyone has seen a second of your edit. Two va…
  - [Running client video without hosting it yourself](https://videokr.com/blog/video-for-agencies): Keep the video in one platform account you control, embed it into each client site with domain-locked embeds, and report from per-video retention and lead numbers. Client hosting…
  - [Hosting course video without a course platform](https://videokr.com/blog/course-video-hosting): Host each lesson as its own video, group modules as playlists, and protect them with a password or a domain-locked embed inside your members’ area — then use per-lesson retention…
  - [Keeping video off your critical path](https://videokr.com/blog/video-page-speed): Do not mount a player until it is needed: render a poster image in a correctly-shaped box, load the player on intersection or click, keep the iframe lazy, and preload nothing beyo…
  - [Video hosting glossary: the terms vendors use differently](https://videokr.com/blog/video-hosting-glossary): The words that cost money are the ones vendors define differently: a "view" can mean three seconds of playback or an impression, "bandwidth" can be metered or included, and "unlim…

## Pages

- [What is Videokr?](https://videokr.com/answers/what-is-videokr): the canonical answer to the brand question, including what Videokr is not.
- [Home](https://videokr.com/): what Videokr does, pricing, comparison table and answers to common questions.
- [Contact](https://videokr.com/contact): postal address, phone, founder and founding date for Videokr.
- [The product film](https://videokr.com/v/videokr-the-product-film): a two-minute film recorded inside the product, hosted on Videokr itself.
- [Full text for language models](https://videokr.com/llms-full.txt): every product fact and answer in one file.
- [WordPress plugin](https://videokr.com/downloads/videokr-wordpress-plugin.zip): the installable plugin ZIP.

## Optional

- [Sign in or create an account](https://videokr.com/login.html)
- Contact: hello@videokr.com · (507) 202-2421 · 27 4th St NW, Byron, MN 55920, United States