Hosted on an account you own
Every file lands in your own storage and stream library. You see the bandwidth, you see the cost, and nobody else holds your masters hostage at renewal.
Built after a $20 bill became £510 a month
Your videos. Your hosting. Your price - forever.
Host, organise and embed your entire library on hosting you own, with a marketing player that turns plays into leads: calls to action, opt-in gates, surveys, your own ad breaks, exit offers and split tests. No per-viewer fees. No renewal ambush.
- Your own hosting account
- No per-viewer fees
- Unlimited embeds
- Cancel any time
£510
the bill that started this, up from about $20
70%+
of the big platform's public reviews are 1 star
0
charges per viewer, per play or per domain
376 GB
library moved across in one import
Why this exists
We didn't set out to build a video platform. We got billed into it.
For years the bill was about $20 a month. Same videos, same handful of embeds, same modest bandwidth. Then a renewal email arrived and the number was £510 a month - for absolutely no extra usage. Nothing had changed except who was setting the price.
Paying it was out of the question. Moving meant re-doing every embed on every page. That is exactly what the pricing counts on: it is cheaper to be squeezed than to leave.
So we built our own hosting instead - faster, cheaper, private by default, and with the marketing tools the big platforms charge extra for. That is how Blue Flame Media was born.
If your hosting bill can multiply by twenty-five overnight, you don't have hosting. You have a hostage situation.
What everyone runs into
- Renewal quotes jumping from hundreds to thousands with one email
- Bandwidth counted against you even when nothing changed
- Embeds locked to a plan tier, then re-priced once you rely on them
- Your master files sitting on somebody else's account
It is not one unlucky account. On the biggest incumbent's public review page, more than 70% of reviews sit at one star, and page after page of them say the same thing: the price multiplied, the notice was one email, the answer was pay or lose your embeds.
Receipts, not opinions
Real customers, real renewal letters, one star each.
These are public reviews of the platform most people are still paying. We didn't write them, and we didn't need to look far - they are the majority.
Our answer: a published price, hosting on an account you own, and the door left unlocked.
See what we chargeWhat you get
Everything a video business needs, in one clean place.
No stitched-together tools, no per-viewer surprises, and no platform deciding who gets to see your work.
Import by link, file or API
Drag in a 40 GB file, paste a video URL, or push videos in through your API key. Uploads resume where they stopped instead of starting again.
Unlimited embeds, any domain
One fast player and one short embed code that drops into any website, course, funnel or landing page. No domain whitelist, no embed cap, no upsell.
Signed, private playback
Playback links are signed and expire, so your source files cannot be hotlinked, bulk downloaded or passed around a Facebook group.
Folders that behave
Nested folders, collections, drag to move, and every title, description and original date preserved exactly as it arrived.
Fast on every connection
Adaptive streaming across a global network picks the right quality automatically, from a phone on 3G to a television on the wall.
The marketing player
A player that sells while it plays.
Everything below sits on top of your normal embed. No plugin on your website, no developer, no second tool to pay for - switch a feature on in your dashboard and the video already published on your page starts doing it.
YouTube-style call to action buttons
Drop a button on screen at 00:42, park it in the corner for the rest of the video, and send the click anywhere you like.
Screenshot coming
Call to action button overlaid on a playing video, with its timing panel open
Lead gates and opt-in forms
Ask for a name and email before the good part, or after it. Leads land in your dashboard and push straight into your CRM.
Screenshot coming
Lead gate form covering the player mid-video
In-video surveys and polls
Ask one question mid-play, branch on the answer, and see the results next to the watch-through chart.
Screenshot coming
Multiple-choice survey card inside the player
Your own ad breaks
Run a pre-roll, mid-roll or post-roll that is yours, promoting your own offer, with a skip timer you control.
Screenshot coming
Mid-roll ad break with a countdown skip button
Exit-intent offers
Catch people as the cursor heads for the tab bar and make one last offer before they go.
Screenshot coming
Exit-intent offer panel appearing over a paused video
A/B testing and presets
Run two versions of an overlay against each other, keep the winner, then save the whole setup as a preset for every future video.
Screenshot coming
Split test results panel comparing two overlay variants
Your library
A tidy library, even at thousands of videos.
Search across every title and description, sort by newest, largest or longest, and move videos between nested folders by dragging them. Bring an existing library across in bulk and keep its structure and original dates exactly as they were.
- Instant search over your whole library
- Nested folders, private per member
- Original titles, descriptions and dates preserved
- Posters and durations captured automatically
- 376 GB imported in one pass, structure intact
The details that usually cost extra
Included here. Billed elsewhere.
Subtitles and captions
Multiple caption tracks per video so viewers can watch in their own language, or with the sound off on a commute.
Chapters with thumbnails
Mark up long videos so people jump straight to the part they came for, with a preview image on the scrub bar.
Television links
Every video gets a stream link that plays on smart televisions and set-top boxes as well as it does in a browser.
Analytics you understand
Plays, watch-through, calls to action clicked and leads captured, per video and across the whole library.
Members and tiers
Free, Pro and VIP tiers with their own private folders, so the right people see the right videos and nobody else does.
API and automation
Your own API key to push videos in, pull stats out and wire the library into whatever you already run.
Look inside before you sign up
Real screens from the app, dropping in shortly.
Screenshot coming
The library
The library
Search thousands of titles instantly, sort by newest, biggest or longest, and drag videos between nested folders.
Screenshot coming
The marketing player editor
The marketing player editor
Twelve tabs of control over one video: CTAs, gates, surveys, ads, branding, speed, captions and chapters.
Screenshot coming
The analytics dashboard
The analytics dashboard
Plays, watch-through, CTA clicks and leads, filtered by video and date range.
From source to screen in three steps
01
Connect or choose hosting
Paste your own hosting key to keep everything on your account, or take a plan from us and skip the setup entirely.
02
Bring your videos across
Upload files, paste links, or import an entire existing library. Titles, descriptions, posters and original dates come with them.
03
Embed, sell and measure
Copy the embed code, publish it anywhere, add a call to action, and watch plays and leads arrive in your dashboard.
Fair pricing, in writing
Two honest ways to do this.
Bring your own keys
Add your own hosting account key and Blue Flame Media sets up your storage, stream library and delivery for you. Your files, your bill at your provider's public rates, your control - we simply run the front end and the marketing player.
- Pay your provider directly, cents per gigabyte
- Nothing of yours ever sits on our account
- Take the whole library with you any day
Let us host it
Prefer not to think about it? Take a plan and get your own private, isolated folders on our hosting, with the same player, embeds, television links, marketing tools and analytics.
- Start free, upgrade only when the library grows
- No per-viewer, per-play or per-domain charges
- The price you signed up on is the price at renewal
Why people move
Built for people who got tired of renting their own videos.
The same features the big platforms charge a premium for, on hosting that stays yours, at a price that stays put.
- Videos stored on an account you own
- Unlimited embeds on unlimited domains
- Signed links that expire
- Lead forms, surveys and CTAs in the player
- Television and set-top box links
- No charge per viewer or per play
- Price you agreed to, at renewal
- Export everything and walk away, any day
Questions people ask first
- Do I need my own hosting account?
- Only if you want one. Bring your own keys and your videos stay entirely on your account at your cost, or choose a Blue Flame Media plan and we run the hosting for you.
- How big can my videos be?
- Large files are welcome. Uploads are resumable, so a long film on a shaky connection carries on from where it stopped rather than starting again. One library of 376 GB came across in a single import.
- Can I move an existing library across?
- Yes. Import in bulk by link or from your existing hosting, keeping folder structure, titles, descriptions and original dates intact.
- Where can I embed the player?
- Anywhere you can paste a line of code: your website, a course platform, a landing page builder, an email landing page or a client's site. No domain limit.
- Will the price jump at renewal?
- No. That is the entire reason this exists. Plans are published on the pricing page, and if you bring your own keys you pay your hosting provider directly at their public rates.
- What if I want to leave?
- Take your files with you. They are on hosting you control, in standard formats, and nothing is locked behind an export fee.
Put your first video up in the next ten minutes.
Start free, keep your files on hosting you own, add a call to action, and never open a renewal email with a knot in your stomach again.