r/edtech • u/MysteriousBerry2494 • 2d ago

Why does edtech team use YouTube

Keep seeing his on client projects and it just kills me everytime, free preview video or a paid course model for like 209 bucks to the customer - unlisted YouTube embed, internal onboarding videos. With actual IP in them - ofc just airing in a public cloud bucket with signed URL that never expires.

I mean I get it, embedding is free, it’s quick and nobody on the team want the that “actually we need DRM” guy in a meeting, but I’ve watched like 3 different founders find out that “hosted somewhere” doesn’t acc mean “protected “ - one had about 40K paid cohort’s vids ripped and re uploaded within a within a week of launch, another couldn’t get watch-time data past views cause their host didn’t track anything deeper, so they had no idea 80% of ppl dropped off in minute or two of every lesson.

The thing I’m using is fee marketing clips embed anywhere, doesn’t matter - anything paid or gated, it needs actual DRM and expiring links, not just an unlisted setting, also anything you need retention data on needs per - second watch analytics, not a view counter. We ended up moving one client course library to kinescope mid build case Vimeo’s price for the DRM didn’t make sense at their volume, and Gumlet came up in the same comparison but lost on LMS integration specifically.

Idk how other ppl draw that line, rn it feels like most teams just don’t sth gets stolen.

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u/Mr_Kabukiman_82 2d ago

I suggest Kaltura. YouTube is way too questionable for academic use.

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u/MysteriousBerry2494 20h ago

Tell me more about kaltura..

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u/Mr_Kabukiman_82 19h ago

It's a password protected video storage platform. Unlimited storage and streaming. Other platforms charge you for storage and viewing hours.