I never invest in LTD hosting of any kind BUT Adilo is giving Vimeo a GOOD chase!
I'll be honest here. There are very few things I'll never LTD in my business and hosting is one of them.
That's until I actually gave this product a whirl. I decided to upload a short video I recorded of how to navigate resources in my course site and the results surprised me.
Here are a few things I love about the results.
1) It was super fast.
2) I love that the play button is not minuscule where you mistake forwarding the video for clicking the volume button. Not everyone has that 20/20 vision.
3) The layout is so intuitive! I customized the color on the play button in seconds- the button is easy to find. I didn't go digging in the footer to find the 'customize' button.
4) The player is freaking clean! Fewer things cluttering the panel where the control buttons are.
Things I wish could improve.
1) When I click 'save' after customizing a section, the "slider" that presents the options should automatically close (or present options to close it) so that I can recover my working space on my screen. I love a less cluttered working space.
2) Every time I click the navigation on the left, it presents this bubble prompt on how to use the site, regardless of how many times I've seen it. There should be a way to automatically disable this as it is distracting.
3) Can I hide the huge play button that shows on the screen when I pause the video? I'm guessing this is possible but haven't explored the possibility yet.
The features I'm excited for:
1) Scheduled publishing! Imagine telling your clients to register for a workshop and they can attend the live workshop in the membership area. This is truly game-changing for me.
2) The options to purchase additional bandwidth at a reasonable price. There's only growth from here on, and I can't wait to see how Adilo expands to accommodate us all :)
Kudos to the Adilo team!