Host an MP4 video as a link.

Putting a video online used to mean YouTube, with all the friction that implied: ads, autoplay of unrelated content, an upload queue, a public profile, copyright algorithms. For a short demo video, a screen recording, or a clip from a meeting, none of that is what you want. You want a URL. You drop the file, you get the URL, you send it.

NudgeHost serves MP4s with HTTP range request support, which is the protocol detail that makes scrubbing work properly. Without it, jumping to the middle of a video would re-download the whole file. With it, the browser fetches only the bytes it needs for the current play position, exactly the way YouTube does it under the hood. Native browser controls appear automatically: play, pause, scrub, volume, fullscreen. No video player library needed.

Compression matters more for video than for any other format. A 30-second screen recording from QuickTime can easily be 80MB at H.264 with default settings; the same recording exported with HandBrake's Web preset is usually under 5MB and looks identical at typical viewing sizes. If your file is over 25MB and you're on the free plan, re-encoding before upload is almost always the right move. host an animated GIF is the matching option for short looped animations where you don't need scrubbable controls.

Free with no watermark on our pricing. Larger videos and longer clips fit on Pro. For a marketing demo embedded in a landing page, host the MP4 here and reference it directly from your host an HTML file page with a normal `<video>` tag. The same all of NudgeHost's hosting tools flow covers every other format you might want to share alongside the video, from PDF link generator scripts to put an image online stills, and share audio as a link handles the audio track if you're shipping it separately.