Bandwidth is the data that gets passed to a viewer when they play your video(s). Every time someone watches your video, data gets passed from Vidalytics to their browsers, which is counted as bandwidth.
Every view used a certain amount of MB. The total amount of views and GBs used is considered in the bandwidth used during your monthly or yearly period for your invoice. This is the reason why it is super important to know how bandwidth works and how to check how much bandwidth is being used. If you incur in over usage this will be reflected on the amount charged during the period.
Other things count toward your monthly bandwidth usage too — like the player and thumbnail image loading, video thumbnails, the media being loaded and played by your own internal views, and the media being downloaded.
How It Works
When you upload a video to Vidalytics, we encode it into a dozen different formats so they are optimized for every device and browser out there. When we do this, we use Machine Learning (Per Title) that makes them extra light (so they loads faster) while keeping the same quality. This saves you bandwidth and increases your conversions.
We also use Adaptive Bitrate Streaming to optimize your viewers experience. This is where we chop up your video into hundreds of little pieces and feed a few chunks to your user at a time.
Benefits from this approach:
Saves you a ton on bandwidth.
Allows us to switch the size and quality midstream if your user’s connection slows down. So your users almost never see your videos buffering. Because when videos buffer, we all suffer.
How To Check Your Bandwidth Usage
You can check your bandwidth usage for the month inside your account. Simply follow these steps.
1. Access your Account Settings: Locate your account settings on the left side menu, Just click on your account name at the bottom left of your screen, then "Account Settings". Or, click this link.
2. My Account: When access your Account Settings you land directly on "My Account" Tab, this is where you'll find the information regarding your current plan, usage, videos, over usage, extra videos and payment information as well as the billing history.
3. Bandwidth usage: Locate the bandwidth usage section and keep track of your usage to avoid incurring in over usage during the period.
See how to access your Account Settings and locate your bandwidth usage below:
Note: Profile bandwidth info is updated between 11pm and 2am UTC each day, and contains your past day's usage. So, when calculating your daily average, just remove a day from the total day count to make sure you're getting full days and not any incomplete data for the last day.
Can I Get Cheaper Bandwidth Rates?
Absolutely. We have enterprise plans available with volume discounts. These start around 1TB a month, and they are as competitive as any other video platform.
Just contact us to inquire about them.
How Can I Save Bandwidth?
Please check out this article for some tips and tricks on how to minimize your bandwidth consumption!
For additional questions, feedback or assistance please feel free to reach out directly to support at [email protected]. 😊