Free Video Hosting: Store, Host, Stream Videos Free on Your Custom Branded Video Player With Sato

I want free video hosting and a custom video player but don’t know where to begin

The context

If you are looking for free ways to host your videos on the internet, surprisingly, every solution out there comes with a catch-sometimes with more problems than actual solutions. For most, YouTube or any free platform is enough to upload the video and embed the player on their website. It offers visibility through YouTube search if the video is made public. Alternatively making the video unlisted hides it from being publicly found and only visible if the video URL is available. While this approach gives you free unlimited video storage and hosting, there are compromises to be made that affect your website experience.

Read: How using YouTube embeds on your website is ruining your user experience

The current solution

If you have a portfolio website and want to showcase your work with videos, the last thing you want is a distracting video experience. This can be an advertisement, video suggestion or a video player that looks out of place. So, what’s the alternative? If your website is on a website builder like Webflow, Wix, Framer or Wordpress, you can upload the video on these platforms and use the native video element/player they provide. But these are not free solutions and you will have to be on a paid plan for most. And even then, they are filled with limitations. Know more about limitations here. 

The other alternative for adding video to your website, no matter where you are building your site, no-code, low-code or otherwise, is to use any cloud server with video storage and hosting and build a video player from scratch using the HTML5 video tag. And unless you are a programmer,, there is no straightforward way to do that. Add on top of that, the complexities around cross-browser functionalities.

So, what is a good free video hosting solution?

For Right Hemisphere, which is our website design and development studio, we’ve always hit the brick wall when our clients and the designers we work with want the video player a particular way. It makes sense because their vision for what a video player should look and feel like is aligned to the brand identity. And the available solutions are full of limitations. 

Why Sato is the free video hosting and custom video player builder for you?

To tackle this challenge of finding a free solution to store and host videos with a custom branded video player, we ended up building Sato.

It addresses these core problems:

1. Free Storage and Hosting: For anyone starting out and putting up videos on a website, Sato has a free plan that gives you storage and hosting of up to 10 free videos of 200MB each. (For context: Webflow allows only 30MB size per video file) 
2. Unlimited Custom Video Players: You can create an unlimited number of custom video players, each unique to fit your intended design.
3. Free Streaming: No matter if you are on a free or paid plan, you are not charged on video streaming.
4. Fully Customizable: Every display element and playback behavior can be customized. This ensures your video player does not look out of place within your website,
5. Cross-browser: The player you build and embed on your website will behave as intended on all browsers.

Sato is built based on a real problem we faced and if you are someone who is facing a similar problem, Sato might be just the solution you are looking for. To best understand if Sato solves your problem, try our free forever plan.

Best of luck.