Video hosting and adaptive streaming, without the YouTube tax
Upload once and Outbound transcodes your video to adaptive HLS, serves it from the edge, and gives you a player, share page, and embed — all under your own brand.
The problem
- Self-hosting MP4s means buffering on slow connections and huge egress bills.
- Public video platforms wrap your content in ads, recommendations, and someone else's brand.
- Building a transcoding pipeline and player from scratch takes weeks you don't have.
How Outbound helps
Outbound is the middle path: a developer-friendly host that does adaptive encoding, global delivery, and playback for you, while every link, page, and player stays yours. Drop in a file up to 10 GB and get back a multi-bitrate stream that plays smoothly anywhere — with no egress fees and pay-as-you-go encoding.
What you get
Adaptive bitrate
Automatic 480p/720p/1080p HLS so playback adjusts to every viewer's connection.
Branded player & embed
A themeable player plus a one-line iframe embed — no third-party branding.
Stream analytics
See views, unique viewers, and geography for every video you publish.
Pay for what you use
Storage by the GB, encoding by the minute — no flat fees for capacity you don't need.
The outcome
- Smooth playback on any device and connection
- Your brand on every page and player
- Predictable costs with zero egress fees
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