80%+
of internet traffic is video. It is the heaviest thing you serve, which is exactly why platforms bill you on it.
Stop renting your own videos.
YOU CAN: Host them.
Blue Flame Media is video hosting for people who sell things: unlimited embeds on hosting you own, plus a marketing player that puts calls to action, opt-in gates, surveys, your own ad breaks, exit offers and split tests inside the video itself. One price. No per-viewer fees. No renewal ambush.
- Hosting on an account you own, at cents per gigabyte
- Unlimited embeds, unlimited domains, no viewer cap
- Lead gates, CTAs, surveys, ad breaks and exit offers built in
- Subtitles, chapters, signed private links and television links
- Import a whole library by link, file or API - dates intact
- Analytics, A/B tests and webhooks into your CRM
No card to start. Bring your own hosting keys or use ours. Take your files and leave any day you like.
A $20 bill became £510 a month. So we built this.
Demo · Timed CTAs
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Timed calls to actionEmail gates and surveysPersonalised watermarkRetention and drop-off
That button, gate, ad break and watermark are all live demonstrations. Scroll on and you can drive them yourself.
£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
The video evolution
Most video players can do three things.Play. Pause. Fullscreen.
Watch the same video pick up a new job every couple of seconds. Tap any line to jump straight to it.
A normal video player
Play, pause, fullscreen. Still just using those three? Adorable.
Your video playershould probably have a job.
Your old player is starting to look a little unemployed.
Why video, and why it has to convert
Video is the most expensive thing on your website. Make it earn.
~50%
of viewers drop out before the halfway mark. Anything you want to ask them has to be asked before then, inside the player.
2 mins
is roughly where attention falls off a cliff on a marketing video. Chapters and timed offers beat one long unbroken take.
Every play
on a bare player asks for nothing. One on-screen button, or one email gate, is the difference between a view and a lead.
Figures from widely published industry research on video consumption, bandwidth share and watch-through. The point is simple: people watch, most stop early, and a player with nothing on it asks nobody for anything.
Who this is for
If a video sits between you and the sale, this is built for you.
Marketers and funnel builders
- Why they use it
- Every video is a step in a funnel, and the player is where the decision happens.
- What they expect
- Buttons, opt-ins and split tests without a developer or a second subscription.
- How they benefit
- Leads captured inside the video, pushed straight into the CRM they already use.
Course creators and membership owners
- Why they use it
- Lessons need to be private, tidy and gated by plan, not floating on a public platform.
- What they expect
- Folders per member, tiered access, chapters, captions and resume-where-I-left-off.
- How they benefit
- Content stays theirs, students keep their place, and premium lessons stay locked.
Agencies and production companies
- Why they use it
- Client work has to be watchable, private and branded, not stamped with someone else's logo.
- What they expect
- Signed links that expire, personalised watermarks, unlimited embeds on client domains.
- How they benefit
- One library across every client, with hosting costs they can see and mark up.
Coaches, consultants and local businesses
- Why they use it
- One good sales video does the selling; they just need it on the page and working.
- What they expect
- Paste a link, get an embed, add a Book a call button. Nothing else to learn.
- How they benefit
- Bookings from a video they already had, at a bill that does not move at renewal.
Publishers and channel owners
- Why they use it
- The same library has to reach browsers, phones and televisions in the front room.
- What they expect
- Adaptive streaming, television links, next-video queues and their own ad breaks.
- How they benefit
- Watch time and ad revenue on hardware the incumbents charge extra to reach.
Software teams and technical owners
- Why they use it
- Video needs to be a component of a product, not a portal someone logs into.
- What they expect
- An API key, structured webhook events, IDs they control and no vendor lock.
- How they benefit
- Uploads, playback and analytics wired into their own app in an afternoon.
Congratulations. Your video got popular.Here's your punishment.
You
People love my videos!
Traditional video host
Excellent. That'll be another $300.
Success is the trigger for the bill. The more your marketing works, the more it costs to keep it online - and the harder it becomes to leave, because every embed on every page is theirs.
One real account. Same videos throughout.
£0a year, climbing
$20Month 1
$79Month 6
$240Month 9
£510Renewal
No extra usage. No extra bandwidth. Just a renewal email and a number with an extra digit in it.
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.
The bill nobody warns you about
The Vimeo Kiss Of Death
Here is the trap, in plain English. You put your videos on a big platform because it is cheap and easy. Then something works - a launch, a viral post, a busy season - and more people watch. That is the good news. The bill is the bad news.
Because the price is tied to how much people watch, a good month can turn into a bill of thousands, sometimes fifteen thousand dollars or more, for the very same videos you were happily paying pocket money for. We have seen people go from $25 a month to over $20,000 for breaking a line of small print they never read. Amazon S3 and the other pay-as-you-go options do exactly the same thing, just with a longer invoice.
By then your videos are embedded on every page you own. Moving means redoing all of it. So people pay. That is not hosting - that is being robbed in broad daylight with a smile and an invoice.
That is where we come in. Our packages are built to stay affordable and predictable, so a good month is something to celebrate instead of something to dread. You will never open an email that quietly multiplies your bill.
A price you can read before you sign up
No surprise charge for a busy month
Your videos stay on an account you own
Leave whenever you like - we keep the door unlocked
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 chargeHow much is your video library really costing you?
Put your own numbers in. We won't invent anyone else's pricing - we'll just show you your own bill with the annual total attached, and what the same library looks like on storage and delivery you own.
Bandwidth is estimated at roughly 30 MB per minute of HD delivery. We do not quote other providers' prices here - only your own number, and your own usage.
Your bill today
£510 / month
Which is really
£6,120
PER YEAR
That's £6,120 you could spend on literally anything else. Ads. A freelancer. A holiday where nobody emails you about bandwidth.
The same library, on hosting you own
- 376 GB of storage, billed by your own provider at their published per-gigabyte rate
- About 2,930 GB of delivery a month, on the same published rate
- No per-viewer fee, no per-domain fee, no renewal surprise from us
- The marketing player, analytics and automations included
What 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.
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.
Getting your videos in is the easy bit
Drag a video off your desktop, even a huge 40 GB one, or paste the web address of a video you already have somewhere else and we fetch it for you. If your internet drops halfway, it carries on from where it stopped instead of starting again. If you use other tools, they can send videos straight in for you - no technical help needed.
Put a video anywhere, as many times as you like
You get one short line of code to paste into your website, course or landing page - the same copy-and-paste anyone does with a YouTube video. Use it on as many pages and as many websites as you want. No limits, no extra charge.
Private unless you say otherwise
Your videos play on your pages but cannot be downloaded, copied or shared around by strangers. The links time out on their own, so nobody can pass one around a Facebook group.
Folders that work like the ones on your computer
Folders inside folders, drag videos between them, and every title, description and original date arrives exactly as it was. Nothing to tidy up afterwards.
Plays fast, everywhere
Your video quietly picks the best quality for whoever is watching - a phone on a bad signal, a laptop, or a television in the living room. They just press play and it works.
Pressing play is the least interesting thingthis player does.
Still just using play and pause? Adorable.
Go on. Press things.
It's not really a video player anymore.It's a salesperson that happens to play video.
Pick any capability on either side and watch it happen inside the player. These are the real overlays your viewers get - not screenshots.
Demo · Lead capture
Want the rest of this?
Pop your email in and the video carries on from 0:42.
you@company.com
0:18 / 2:141xCC
Lead capture. Pause the video at the exact second it gets interesting and ask for an email. Answer given, video resumes.
Build my first playerEleven of them, all switchable per video, none of them an add-on you get billed for later. Yep - your video can do that too.
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.
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.
In-video surveys and polls
Ask one question mid-play, branch on the answer, and see the results next to the watch-through chart.
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.
Exit-intent offers
Catch people as the cursor heads for the tab bar and make one last offer before they go.
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.
Your video got 0 views. Great.What did those views actually do?
0
leads captured
Email gates at 0:42.
0
CTA clicks
A button that arrived at the right second.
0
conversions
Traced back to the video that did it.
£0
revenue attributed
To one video, not to 'marketing'.
Views are nice. Customers are nicer. We count all of it per video, and tell you the second people leave so the ask lands before it.
See the analyticsFigures above are a clearly marked demo example, not a customer result.
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.
Plays on the telly too
Every video also gets a link that works on smart televisions and set-top boxes, not just in a web browser.
Plain-English numbers
How many people pressed play, how far they watched, how many clicked your button and how many left their email - per video and for everything together.
Members and paid levels
Free, Pro and VIP levels each get their own private folders, so the right people see the right videos and nobody else does.
Connects to your other tools
If you already use something like a website builder, a mailing list or a booking system, it can talk to your library automatically. You copy one key across - we show you exactly where it goes.
Look inside before you sign up
The three screens you will spend your time in.
The library
Search thousands of titles instantly, sort by newest, biggest or longest, and drag videos between nested folders.
The marketing player editor
Twelve tabs of control over one video: CTAs, gates, surveys, ads, branding, speed, captions and chapters.
The analytics dashboard
Plays, watch-through, CTA clicks and leads, filtered by video and date range.
03:12, and you are asleep
What happens while you sleep?
03:12
Watches
03:13
Lead
03:14
Click
03:14
Webhook
03:14
CRM
03:16
Follow-up
03:29
Recorded
Someone in Sydney presses play on your webinar replay.
You did absolutely nothing.Very productive of you.
Another lead. How terribly inconvenient.
Views are nice.Customers are nicer.
Another lead was captured while you were reading this line. Not yours, sadly. Yet.
What are you using video for?
Pick the one that sounds like you and the page will show you the workflow we'd set up on day one.
The demo video is the shop assistant. Give it a till.
- 1Product video plays
- 2Timed CTA at the benefit moment
- 3Purchase click recorded
- 4Conversion attributed to that video
- 5Follow-up automation fires
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
Yes. We probably added that too.
You wanted a video player. We may have got slightly carried away. Search the lot, or open a category - all 92 of them are built and switchable per video today.
- A settings area per video, not one setting for the whole account
- Every feature switched on or off on its own
- Advanced options folded away until you want them
- A sticky settings panel that only closes on the X, so nothing is lost
- Unsaved changes protected with individual Save controls
- Tooltips and plain-English descriptions on every field
That is 92 things your current host either charges extra for, or simply does not do.
Start free and try the lotWhy 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
Your video started here
Play. Pause. Fullscreen.
Your old player is starting to look a little unemployed.
And ended up here
Demo · Lead capture
Want the rest of this?
Pop your email in and the video carries on from 0:42.
you@company.com
0:18 / 2:141xCC
- Lead capture
- Timed CTAs
- Your ad breaks
- Personalisation
- Locked content
- Automations
- Analytics
- A/B testing
A complete marketing machine.
Your videos are already doing the hard part.They're being watched.
- Capture leads
- Sell products
- Trigger automations
- Move viewers through funnels
- Build audiences
- Generate useful data
- Drive revenue
Give us ten minutes.We'll give your videos a promotion.
- No developers.
- No migration nightmare.
- No degree in video engineering.
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.