Provides a fully customizable video API that enables developers to integrate on-demand and live streaming capabilities, manage video storage and delivery, and analyze engagement through a single platform. It streamlines video encoding, hosting, and playback across any device, reducing upload failures by 99% and ensuring low-latency streaming with global CDN support.
Funding
$12M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Integrating video streaming and on-demand video capabilities into applications often requires managing complex video infrastructure, including encoding, hosting, delivery, and analytics, which can be time-consuming and resource-intensive for developers. Developers may also need to integrate multiple APIs or external services for AI-powered features like transcription and summarization.
Solution
api.video provides a fully customizable video API that simplifies the integration of on-demand and live streaming capabilities into any website, software, or application. The platform offers an all-in-one solution for managing the entire video workflow, from video ingestion and encoding to global delivery via a robust content delivery network (CDN). By offering low-code integrations, plugins, and API clients, api.video enables developers to quickly add high-quality video experiences without needing extensive video engineering expertise. The API also includes built-in AI features, such as automated transcription and summarization, accessible through a single API call, streamlining the process of enhancing video content with AI.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes developers, digital agencies, and product builders looking to integrate video capabilities into online learning platforms, social and entertainment apps, e-commerce sites, and generative AI applications.
Features
- Comprehensive video API for on-demand and live streaming integration
- Global video delivery through a robust CDN with 140+ points of presence
- Lightning-fast video encoding to ensure compatibility across devices
- Built-in AI features for video transcription and summarization
- Low-code integrations, plugins, and API clients for rapid deployment
- Video player SDK to control and interact with the api.video HTML5 Player
- Support for RTMP live streaming clients in React Native, Swift, and Flutter
- Tools for managing video storage, editing, and protection
- Analytics dashboard for tracking viewer engagement and video performance
- Geo-restriction capabilities for controlling video content accessibility by country