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Wistia
Wistia is a video hosting solution for marketers. Wistia helps upload, manage, share, and track customer web videos for performance and statistics.

Wistia provides it’s own video API and player offering a unified viewing experience across all platforms, browsers, devices, and locations around the globe. Wistia boasts a collection of in app analytical tools for customer feedback including heatmaps, video stats, and in-depth user tracking.

Currently Wistia is offered on all online platforms and can render all video codecs. Wistia video player can be embedded into Facebook, as well as into any personal site.

The company was founded by Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz in April 2006. The company is based in Davis Square, MA it currently has 13 employees.

Content
Wistia Features Video Heatmaps, Video Transcripts, Video Embedding Private Video Sharing, Visitor Tracking, Phone and email support Post-Roll Calls to Action, Video SEO, Email Marketing Integration Video Player API, Video Popovers, Video Playlists Realtime Analytics, Management Console, Social Sharing Features iPhone/iPad support, Smart Encoding, Video Player Customization

2.1) Wistia Player	Wistia supports a wide variety of video formats including MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, VOB, MOD, and 3GP.

2.2) Wistia API	The Wistia data API is programmable and customizable for customer specific needs. The data is available in either JSON or XML format over HTTP. There is also a Wistia API Ruby gem for access from the command line.

2.3) Wistia Super-embeds Wistia generates HTML embed codes for videos that can be put in HTML documents, content management systems, or web frameworks (PHP, JAVA, RoR, etc.). Once the embed code is in place, videos can be played around the world.

See Also -	Video Content Analysis -	Video Player

Company History
Wistia was founded by Adam Savage and Brendan Schwartz both Brown University graduates in April 2006 to help filmmakers collaborate online remotely. Wistia developed applications to help companies track how consumers watch, use, and interact with their videos.

Fees range from $79 a month to $10,000 a month, depending on the size of the deal and the number of sales reps using the service. The company landed a $650,000 round of venture funding in 2008, and a $775,00  round of Venture funding in 2010.

Currently with a market leading quality of service Wistia ranks 6409 in US traffic rank and globally 20,772 according to alexa(highlight)

The Team
Chris Savage – Co-Founder, CEO Brendan Schwartz – Co-Founder, CTO Ben Ruedlinger – VP of Engineering Adam Zais – VP of Sales nd Marketing (Sales Sensei) Jeff Vincent – Director of Customer Happiness Jim Bancroft – Software Engineer Alyce Currier – Video Jedi Joe Ringenberg – Designer Max Kohl – Customer Champion Max Schnur – Web Developer James Bancroft – Software Developer Chris Levine – Video Guy Jason Lawrence - Developer

Extra Links
Venture Funding Raising Downloading the Wistia API Blog Post on Wistia by Mailchimp How to Video Email Marketing Mixergy Interview with co-founder Chris Savage Alyce Currier Wistia Guest Post Apps Direct profile of Wistia Online Video Hosting Breakdown