The Best Way to Add Video to Your Radio Station Website

<p>There are a few different methods to display a video on your website and the advantages of using a third-party service like Youtube and Vimeo versus uploading and displaying video from your hosting provider.</p> <p><strong>Downsides of hosting video yourself</strong></p> <p>Uploading large video files to your website can not only take forever but they could be denied by the hosting provider due to upload size and timeout limits. If you have multiple people watching your video at once, it can slow or even crash your website due to exhausting those resources.</p> <p>One video format, codec, size, and resolution does NOT fit all applications and devices. Streaming services re-encode your uploaded video to several different formats and resolutions and serve the right video to the user based on their viewing device and internet speed.</p> <p>Video hosting services exist and thrive because they solve these problems. They also give you access to additional features such as analytics detailing how long your viewers watch your videos.</p> <p>YouTube deserves special attention because it's the largest video hosting service in the world and the second-largest online search engine in the world. It’s also extremely easy to use and FREE!</p> <p>There are some downsides to using providers like YouTube but most people are ok with them. Like…</p> <p>Ads – YouTube generates revenue by advertising, whether they be pre-roll or banner ads at the bottom of videos.</p> <p>Related Videos – Many embedded videos will show a thumbnail grid of related videos after your video has been completed. An algorithm chooses these videos based on context and relevancy, so a video might show up that you don’t want to.</p> <p>Regardless of these downsides, with both free and paid options available, there isn't really a need to host your video on your web host.</p> <p><strong>How to embed a third-party service video</strong></p> <p>Within WordPress, adding a video has become as simple as pasting the video’s URL into a post or page. WordPress has buil