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Wistia Blog
Company blog · wistia.com/blogbusinessweb
Wistia Blog is the company blog at wistia.com, writing about business and web. Since 2009, 44 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “ What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 36 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Read for posts on company culture, taking on debt to grow, and URL design, plus a set of how-to video learning resources. Many HN mentions are job listings or product recommendations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 36 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wistia is the complete video and webinar platform for business. Host with an ad-free player, run webinars, record and edit, and measure what drives impact.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-06-17
- What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-10
- Does length matter? It does for video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-16
- How an offer to sell our business inspired us to take on $17M in debt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-18
- How to keep viewers engaged in an online video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-10
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-05
- Does Length Matter? It Does For Video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-27
- SuperEmbed Builder for embedded videos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Wistia | Cambridge, MA | Full-Time, Onsite + Remote | https://wistia.com We're a profitable, long-term thinking oriented company serving up our business customers' videos and shows. Read more about what we believe in here: https://wistia.com/about/values Open engineering roles: * Lead Front End Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/2045608 * Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure: https://boards.green…
Comment linking /about/values
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode) as a story · 172 points
HN discussionWistia | Cambridge, MA | Full-Time, Onsite + Remote | https://wistia.com We're a profitable, long-term thinking oriented company serving up our business customers' videos and shows. Read more about what we believe in here: https://wistia.com/about/values Open engineering roles: * Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/2045719 If you've got any questions feel free to DM me…
Comment linking /about/values
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted How To: Making a great screencast as a story · 63 points
HN discussionI wouldn't classify Netflix as a bean culture. Because Netflix is still run by Reed Hastings the founder & CEO. Netflix hired Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken. From his research came the insight of binge watching series not from Netflix data. Netflix invests in series by pioneering new narratives for niche markets. When a niche market is smaller or the serie is received not as expected Netflix pulls the plug…
Comment linking /learn/marketing/science-behind-why-we-binge-watch
on “Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon”Submitted How they work: Viximo (Wistia video series on startup culture) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionWistia | Cambridge, MA | Full-Time, Onsite + Remote | https://wistia.com We're a profitable, long-term thinking oriented company serving up our business customers' videos and shows. Read more about what we believe in here: https://wistia.com/about/values Open engineering roles: * Director of Engineering: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/2964268 * Lead Front End Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/j…
Comment linking /about/values
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted How an offer to sell our business inspired us to take on $17M in debt as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWistia | Cambridge, MA | Full-Time, Onsite + Remote | https://wistia.com We're a profitable, long-term thinking oriented company serving up our business customers' videos and shows. Read more about what we believe in here: https://wistia.com/about/values Open engineering roles: * Lead Front End Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/2045608 * Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure: https://boards.green…
Comment linking /about/values
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted The face behind your website as a story · 29 points
HN discussionAside: I got curious about their web video player. Turns out it's hosted using a service called Wistia. Their 'about us' video is fantastic. https://wistia.com/about-wistia
Comment linking /about-wistia
on “DigitalOcean VPC”Submitted All Hands Support as a story · 28 points
HN discussionWistia | Cambridge, MA | Full-Time, Onsite + Remote | https://wistia.com We're a profitable, long-term thinking oriented company serving up our business customers' videos and shows. Read more about what we believe in here: https://wistia.com/about/values Open engineering roles: * Lead Front End Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/2045608 * Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure: https://boards.green…
Comment linking /about/values
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)”Submitted Does length matter? It does for video as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI enjoyed this as an option and would love to see more companies doing things like this: https://wistia.com/learn/culture/taking-on-debt-to-grow-our-...
Comment linking /learn/culture/taking-on-debt-to-grow-our-own-way
on “On Shutting Down”Submitted SuperEmbed Builder for embedded videos as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHere's a great one: http://wistia.com/about/team Type 'dance'.
Comment linking /about/team
on “About Userlook”Submitted Tell me a story: Why we'll care more, if you tell us a story as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> No need to force your ad to them. Oh, there is a need, alright. If they claim they're not interested, it's time to shift strategies[1]. After all, nobody's immune to advertising[2]. I'm sure there are more relevant studies that prove even ad-averse individuals are still susceptible to them. It's just a matter of finding the right _kind_ of advertising to reach them. Doing this effectively is what gets you promoted…
Comment linking /learn/marketing/the-psychology-behind-why-people-dislike-ads
on “Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms”Submitted How to keep viewers engaged in an online video as a story · 12 points
HN discussionExactly. But not just when copying a URL. Short, simple URLs look nicer and feel better. This is basic web design, but somewhere along the line we've allowed salesy/marketing nonsense to infest our web. This spells out the issues really well (with a funny video) https://wistia.com/blog/fresh-url The suggested solution on there "Fresh URL" is interesting, although it's throwing more javascript at the problem.
Comment linking /blog/fresh-url
on “Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings”Submitted Dirty web video secret: If you can see it, you can steal it as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what Wistia found: https://wistia.com/blog/ditching-flat "We began to realize that by building a company with a flat org structure, we had done the exact opposite of what we had intended. We had centralized all the decision-making, and we were relying on a secret implicit structure to make progress. Every company has a structure. If you don't explicitly define your structure, then you are left with a…
Comment linking /blog/ditching-flat
on “Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace”Submitted 3 steps to an easy and inexpensive video testimonial as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPerhaps you should do a split test. I've seen great results from the signup forms that http://wistia.com allows you to embed anywhere in a video. I'm not affiliated, but am impressed with the product; check out their "Call to action" and "Turnstile email capture" features in the embed builder on this page: http://wistia.com/product/superembeds
Comment linking /product/superembeds
on “What is A/B Testing?”Submitted Dirty web video secret: play rates as a story · 6 points
HN discussionReally digging your Company Overview video too: http://wistia.com/about/company
Comment linking /about/company
on “ What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)”Submitted How Baldur's Gate shaped one young developer's life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGrrr IE.... Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8) Timestamp: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:39:09 UTC Message: 'beats' is null or not an object Line: 303 Char: 9 Code: 0 URI: http://wistia.com/about/team
Comment linking /about/team
on “ What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)”Submitted Three Fundamentals Of Concepting A Marketing Video as a story · 3 points
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