Cincopa vs. Wistia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cincopa
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Cincopa is a photo & video hosting platform, offering various designs for slideshows, photo-galleries, video players, private video hosting solutions and more.
$9
per month
Wistia
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Wistia is a video marketing platform that helps teams create, host, market, and measure their videos and webinars. Wistia is used to create professional videos, host webinars, collect and send leads to a connected marketing automation platform. Wistia additionally offers customers support and educational resources.
$0
up to 10 videos
Pricing
CincopaWistia
Editions & Modules
Startup
$9.00
per month
Plus
$25.00
per month
Corporate
$99.00
per month
Free
$0
up to 10 videos
Plus
$24
per month
Pro Plan
$99
per month
Advanced Plan
$399
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CincopaWistia
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CincopaWistia
Considered Both Products
Cincopa
Chose Cincopa
I tried a few when I was looking for a gallery solution, I can't remember them now, but I am loving Cincopa.
Chose Cincopa
You can use Wistia to host and embed videos on your website, too, but I didn't find as much customization or resources available.
Chose Cincopa
Cincopa has nice templates that are easy to use. The images can be moved about, more images added, and the size changed.
I particularly like the Pinterest style template, as it fits in well with the number of images that I need to display on my website. The more choices …
Chose Cincopa
When looking for a gallery system on BigCommerce, we looked at POWr, Owl Carousel, and JuiceBox.
We settled on Cincopa due to the embed options, drag-and-drop functionality, and the lack of development needed to integrate into our website. Additionally, Cincopa's price point …
Chose Cincopa
Easier to use, shorter uploading time, better customization. Cincopa was better in every way compared to their competitors.
Chose Cincopa
HubSpot recently integrated Vidyard into their mix and it's great, but the lead gen piece is lacking. It's not as sophisticated as Cincopa and it's pricier.
Chose Cincopa
I have used and tried many jscripts and snippets of code, none have been as simple to use and integrated as Cincopa
Chose Cincopa
Canva is great for certain things but for an HTML slideshow it wouldn't deliver. I needed something as easy to use as Canva and as cost-effective, and Cincopa delivered. Cincopa also doesn't add any obtrusive style elements and its customization allows you to make it look …
Chose Cincopa
I liked the options that Cincopa had. I can customize my gallery however I want and share it with anyone, they do not have to have an account to view my galleries on my website, like Dropbox.
Chose Cincopa
I truly could not find any competitor to Cincopa for our use case. Most photo galleries are expensive, lack customization, or are too focused on "social sharing". I don't need to share my albums with my friends - but I do need to embed them on our website!
Chose Cincopa
Bluer decided to use Cincopa because we did not find any other solution easy to integrate in our website and that was 100% responsive
Chose Cincopa
Cincopa is much easier to use for our staff than the previous products we have used. The features are similar but the time it takes to create projects based on the required technical knowledge is so much less that our staff is more productive and we are finding the creation and …
Chose Cincopa
I like using Cincopa instead of wordpress for video and photo galleries. Cincopa is easier for our clients to understand.
Chose Cincopa
Cincopa has much more to offer. They have an incredible amount of displays and colors to choose from. They are constantly updating and adding new ones with lots of features and ways to edit. They have really made our life much easier and I highly recommend them.
Chose Cincopa
We used internal tools for image galleries, but we could not manage the amount of images. In addition, no user-friendly search function could be integrated. Sharing on social media was also not possible. In addition, the pictures could not be marked and it is very advantageous …
Wistia
Chose Wistia
Vidyard was much more expensive even though it has tighter integration with HubSpot. This put Wistia in a better category from a cost perspective because most of the heavy lifting with automation is handled on the HubSpot side of things. Vidyard also felt like it was geared to …
Chose Wistia
Wistia is for business. Period. Vimeo has none of the benefits for a business that Wistia offers. The SEO value and SUPER FAST playback speed are essential. Wistia has it all. Personally, I can rarely get thought a video if hosted on Vimeo because of the glitchy playback and …
Chose Wistia
I found Vidyard to be a tad clunky, at least when I tried to use it. Vimeo's design features didn't seem as modern to me and didn't integrate as well with other apps/website platforms, at least when I was investigating a video hosting platform. Wistia is more expensive than …
Chose Wistia
Wistia is much easier to integrate into our site than using S3 directly.
Chose Wistia
I wasn't part of the selection process.
Chose Wistia
We've used Youtube in the past, and still use it to host some videos today, but we didn't like how mainstream it feels when you embed it on a website. For one thing, you can't customize the appearance so it feels out of place with our branding and color scheme on our website …
Chose Wistia
Honestly, I haven't gotten too in-depth yet, but that is the closest thing. Gotta give that point to Wistia, though, still because in my experience, at least, trying to learn Vidyard's features did not seem to be the right path at the time when Wistia was not causing any …
Chose Wistia
Vimeo is less customizable. They both offer a free plan and paid premium plans. Vimeo doesn't have the A/B testing and ability to focus on the marketing aspect of the videos to obtain more revenue. The CTAs are much better in Wistia and are much easier to work with.
Chose Wistia
Wistia had the best site speed performance out of these competitors and had the most functionality. We really loved the ability to track usage and plays on the videos, the lead capturing, bookmarking, CTA build-outs, and all of the customizations we could do with it compared to …
Chose Wistia
Wistia is pretty comparable to Vimeo but it seems to cost more for the same features. I liked the Wistia brand and the great educational and entertaining content they produce which is largely why we chose Wistia. With a smaller budget, I would probably go with Vimeo next time …
Chose Wistia
  • Prices are better.
  • No useless options.
  • Easier to use
Chose Wistia
Wistia offers more features overall and a better interface. I have found that they have the best analytics and provide helpful insights into the performance of each video. You can integrate incredibly easy into websites, without technical savvy or any kind of expertise with …
Chose Wistia
Wistia proved to strike a balance between features, support, reliability, and ease of use. Some offer deeper features, but require much more of executional teams, which increases drag and friction in continually distributing new content.
Chose Wistia
We have used Wistia so long I can't remember.
Chose Wistia
Wistia is much more user friendly and gives the ability to replace videos. Also the the statistics were easier to access and use with Wistia.
Chose Wistia
We haven't really explored other products. I've been using Wistia for so long that there was nothing like Wistia when I started. It's still a solid product for a good price.
Chose Wistia
In the past we have tried to host some of our video content in Dropbox. Wistia has proven to be a much better solution as it allows for much more flexibility in sharing the content externally and also having an easy interface for admin users to add and locate video content.
Chose Wistia
I have used Vimeo as an alternative, and I prefer Wistia for marketing and embedding videos on my site. I also use YouTube, of course.
Chose Wistia
Wistia provides the functionality that most companies need for video marketing and video hosting/analytics. When we compared with Vidyard, the cost of Vidyard was far higher, but the functionality did not seem to be much more advanced than Wistia. Wistia seems to be a good …
Chose Wistia
Wistia is slightly more expensive, but the metrics/data provided, combined with the ease of use, makes it the perfect choice for us. Being able to break videos into series/projects is very useful. Additionally, the chapter feature makes it easy to allow users to watch all or …
Chose Wistia
We looked at self-hosting videos on our client sites using AWS and Cloudflare, but we really didn't want to have to code our own product or have to deal with server configurations. Wistia made it simple to sign-up, upload, and start embedding our content on our sites. We also …
Chose Wistia
Vimeo Pro works well for artistic folks, those on a budget, or those not looking to leverage video for demand gen or lead capture. It served us well for a while, but just wasn't cutting it. Wistia has more on the integrations end than Vimeo, and we have benefitted the most from …
Chose Wistia
We have found that many companies do not whitelist YouTube, and it is against policy to access the channel. By using Wistia, we can get around that predicament.
Chose Wistia
Wistia was our default choice because of the popularity and the quality of videos generated by the team. We did not evaluate other software platforms and directly went with Wistia.
Features
CincopaWistia
Video Marketing
Comparison of Video Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
8.6
Ratings
14% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Lead generation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video personalization9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for advertisements8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Video SEO8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Platform Integrations
Comparison of Video Platform Integrations features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
8.2
Ratings
28% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Integration to Salesforce.com8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration to Marketo8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration to HubSpot8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Security
Comparison of Video Security features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
9.2
Ratings
3% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Video access controls9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video link sharing9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal video9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
External video9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Player
Comparison of Video Player features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Player customization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded videos9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video quality / Bandwidth controls9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile compatibility9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Analytics
Comparison of Video Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
9.9
Ratings
24% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Per viewer tracking10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Per video tracking9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Video analytics dashboard9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Hosting, Management & Storage
Comparison of Video Hosting, Management & Storage features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
8.7
Ratings
0% above category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
On-Demand video9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Live streaming9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video upload & format support8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Video library / File management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video portal8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Engagement
Comparison of Video Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Cincopa
7.7
Ratings
3% below category average
Wistia
-
Ratings
Audience Q&A / Live chat8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Video comments7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
CincopaWistia
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CincopaWistia
Likelihood to Recommend
Cincopa is great for small businesses that need to post photo or video galleries on their websites. Cincopa can do many other things, however, I have only used them for photo galleries. Cincopa also makes it easy to post a video on websites.
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It's so awesome to see my videos come up on Google Search. A click brings viewers right to my website!!! Incredibly powerful. If I were just posting on YouTube, visitors would end up there and then off to the next best cat video instead of taking action with me on my website.
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Pros
  • Responsive - if your platform is not responsive it will display the gallery this way across all platforms.
  • Fast - if you have slow uploads it will increase your load speed.
  • Easy - you can upload all your photos at once or one at a time. Then use a preset gallery to display them.
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  • Wistia enables a lot of customization in the video player, making it personalized to your business.
  • The user experience is pretty intuitive and easy to use without too much training.
  • Wistia's help articles, blog and instructional videos were very helpful as we began investing more resources into video production.
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Cons
  • Cincopa only allows for one size of photo. For example, if I want to include a vertical photo and a horizontal one, I have to have the Cincopa team custom-code this feature for me. It should be an out-of-box feature.
  • Our designer had to put some parameters in Cincopa, so that the galleries fit in well with our website. It's not intuitive to the average person.
  • The analytics are very lacking. We have a podcast page where about four to five podcast series live, but the analytics are the same for all of those series because Cincopa only records when someone sees the first slide of a gallery, not individual slides. So, there's no way to know if one podcast is more popular than the other. And, since Cincopa is an iframe, we can't gather this data with Google Analytics either.
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  • Obtaining embed codes for a significantly large number of videos can be very time consuming as there is no way to automatically pull a report.
  • Within a project, there is no way to set the list to show a specific number of videos and you may only have a certain number of videos shown unless you click to expand the list and continue to do so.
  • Once the list is expanded and you click in to a video, when clicking back, the list reloads and you must expand the entire list again which can become very time consuming.
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Likelihood to Renew
It solved the problems we were facing at the time.
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Wistia is super easy to use and very reliable, anytime a video needs to be updated, the existing media can be replaced, but the url remains the same so anywhere this media is shared or embedded, it is immediately updated. Their support is extremely helpful, and there is very rarely any issues with this product.
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Usability
Cincopa is very easy to use, especially to the uninitiated. You don't need a degree in CS or years of experience to set-up a fantastic looking gallery. The interface is self-explanatory for the most part and very easy to use. The drag-and-drop functionality makes it simple and inviting for all users.
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I just love the interface and the way things are organized. You can find all of the various controls and have the ability to enable/disable each. You can also get to help quickly from any screen. The screens are not cluttered and have a good use of whitepace, without the need to page through controls or reload the screen.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
After several years, we have not come across a situation for which Wistia was not available when needed.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Couldn't be happier with the overall performance of the platform. Videos load fast, rarely have loading issues, look sclean and the styling and sizing doesn't have issues. The data comes in quickly and in real time. Also, on the administrative side, the videos seem to upload well without much issue. There's always issues uploading video, but we had way less upload issues with Wistia than with Vimeo.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
We have only had to reach out to Wistia support a handful of times in the 4 years we have been using Wistia. They have always been quick to respond and help us solve the problem. The system is self-service so there should be very little to no need to reach out to support on a regular basis.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
We were in the process of changing our website so that took some time to get Wistia implemented in to our website.
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Alternatives Considered
When looking for a gallery system on BigCommerce, we looked at POWr, Owl Carousel, and JuiceBox. We settled on Cincopa due to the embed options, drag-and-drop functionality, and the lack of development needed to integrate into our website. Additionally, Cincopa's price point (especially with a free option) put it in the lead over similar products like JuiceBox.
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Wistia is in the process of making their livestreaming way better than the free alternative like YouTube and a well known competitor like gotomeeting. It's easy to add in cohosts, interact with chat members, add in polls and other features which can be a bit clunky on gotomeeting.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
We use many platforms and Wistia has been a standout in terms of reliability and scaleability.
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Return on Investment
  • We use the tool primarily as a customer loyalty measure. Customers can view all submitted images and videos, also from other people and share with other people.
  • In addition, the tool serves to promote the image of our company by giving the customer pleasure. The residence time of the customers on the page with the picture gallery is very high.
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  • Doubled lead capture from lead magnet on website from one year to the next.
  • Increased email interaction on newsletters when embedding Wistia video thumbnail into email campaigns (10-15% links clicked bumped to 30-40% links clicked).
  • Can save us about 50+ hours of one-on-one client meeting time per year for pointing clients to video content rather than presenting the same info in a live setting.
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ScreenShots

Cincopa Screenshots

Screenshot of List of galleriesScreenshot of AnalyticsScreenshot of Account infoScreenshot of Video player customization

Wistia Screenshots

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