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.

The link lands the recipient on a clean page where the video plays inline with the browser's native controls: play, pause, scrub, volume, fullscreen. The player loads metadata first, so opening the page doesn't pull the whole file before anyone presses play. If the recipient's browser can't decode the codec inside the container, the page swaps to a download card instead of a broken player, and the download button in the header is always there for keeping a copy.

Compression matters more for video than for any other format, because every play spends bandwidth on the full file again. 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. For short looped animations where you don't need scrubbable controls, you can share a GIF as a link instead and the file stays lighter.

Hosted free with no watermark, and larger videos and longer clips fit on the Pro plan. A product demo video usually travels with a sales conversation, so you can send a presentation as a link and drop the video link alongside the deck. The dashboard lets you put any file online next to the video: a PDF link generator for the script, somewhere to put an image online for stills, and a place to share audio as a link when you're shipping the audio track separately.