You are now watching the 2nd part of a 3-part video series on protecting
online course content videos.
If not already seen, please click this card to see the part 1 video first BEFORE you proceed
further because that video will also set the tone for this entire video series.
In case you already watched it, welcome back. and let's now go over the options that are
available in securing the videos hosted on these three popular Online teaching platforms
- Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi - what's common in all of them?
- they all use Wistia as we can see from their respective help and support articles.
Let's see what Teachable has to say about security.
Here they mention that even with these security precautions, it is impossible to completely
stop content theft, sharing, and piracy.
Although with Teachable, there is no further option available to my knowledge, they do
tell us that we can send a DMCA takedown notice if we believe that any content violates our
Intellectual Property rights, and so they provide some guidance around how to do it.
This requires some work, but chances are more that it can positively work in your favor
to takedown the pirated content.
Sometimes it might feel like chasing two rabbits on a new moon night, but let's not leave any
stone unturned.
So do your bit and submit the DMCA notice if you find your content stolen and sold on
some other website.
Next, let's see what does Thinkific has to say about limiting or discouraging content
sharing: This article will cover what settings they have in place and some recommendations
to prevent sharing.
I have provided these links in the description below, so please do check them out.
But what if students share logins with their friends and thus cost you that missed customer
value?
Thinkific provides a way to combat that issue as well.
These are quite task-bound, but if you are really keen on these security procedures then
it's time worth spending looking into these methods.
A point to note here is that I am not being sponsored by any of these course platforms
and these are all the independent tests that I am running and the experiments I am going
through to see which course platform is more suitable for video security.
Here's a good point that also makes sense, something we will also talk about in detail
in the third part of this video series.
Lastly, speaking of Kajabi, it's a beast and offers a ton of tools that are beyond what
a normal online instructor needs.
You get websites, payments systems, products shop, email automation and so much more.
Coming to video security, there aren't great options available at the outset.
Although their platform is quite robust with strong security around their login credentials
and the entire workflow design around the customer-student relationship and overall
onboarding process, their video security is left with Wistia's video hosting to take care
of.
And I tested this by checking the available settings in my Kajabi Growth account.
We do have the option to control the domain connected to our Kajabi account, something
similar to what we saw within Wistia itself in the first part.
However, I didn't find any access level settings that can be implemented for videos that we
add directly to the Kajabi course pages.
To summarize, to each his or her own.
However, in my tests, since Wistia is the common platform used as video hosting by these
three-course platforms (and also many other course platforms out there) - only Thinkific
offers some granular-level details and options, as we saw earlier when it comes to controlling
and analyzing unauthorized downloading or sharing of video content we create.
And we didn't find anything close within Teachable and Kajabi.
Again, as I said, to each his own because some might like the different tools offered
by Kajabi and some may love the look and feel that Teachable has, but if your only concern
is around securing your video content within your online course modules - then Thinkific
would be my choice.
This completes the 2nd part of this video series in protecting your video content.
In the 3rd and last part, we'll discuss some best practices to follow at the time of content
creation to mitigate this problem of content piracy.