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If you’re a founder or CTO building a creator platform, you’re stitching together tools to help creators self-monetize. Content creator platforms deliver a wide stack of tools— online courses, memberships, communities, coaching, and more.
Life at content creator platform every day can have you onboard 10-100 accounts, and this comes with unpredictable amount of content, new feature requests, and handling scale.
This can get slow and painful because of:
r/devops:" Creator platforms drown in self-service requests for infra; building vs. buying platforms is debated, but costs explode as we keep building" r/softwaredevelopment devs add " user-generated video is complex—latency kills engagement”
All these issues often lead to long dev cycles and slow market penetration. In this article you'll learn how you can build video in a content creator platform like Kajabi using FastPix Video API platform, which allows you to get to market faster, balance scalability and have a great developer experience.
Kajabi's flow is designed for creators to dream, build, and monetize in one place, with tools for courses, coaching, communities, newsletters, memberships, and podcasts. It starts at $89/month (Kickstarter plan), with higher tiers up to $399/month (Pro) for more products and features, plus an Enterprise plan from $10,000/year. There's also a 14-30 day free trial for new creators.
Video is key to high-margin digital products. Creators can bundle videos into courses (top revenue driver), memberships (recurring subscriptions), or coaching (live sessions), creating passive income.
Consequently, Video is a foundational element of Kajabi's platform, deeply integrated into its core operations and serving as a primary driver of creator success. Video content—ranging from pre-recorded lessons and promotional clips to live sessions—underpins much of this ecosystem, enabling high-engagement delivery of knowledge-based products. This integration not only streamlines creator workflows but also enhances audience retention, conversion rates, and revenue generation, positioning video as a "huge" component of Kajabi's value proposition.
Kajabi has been around for a while and is an established platform. That said here are some complaints, in 2025 on google playstore, detaling challenges with video in their platform. These cover:
These are comments from folks who took time to review, and might be indicative of more issues.
Today, building a content creator platform is about going beyond the basics. So you will be building a lot of functionality while racing against market forces of accessible human talent and time-to-market.
A fully managed, cloud-native Video API platform like FastPix offers real-time capabilities and high performance, taking video engineering off your plate and optimizing optimal team utilization and market entry. Folks using FastPix have been able to save 70% and get to market 300% faster compared to using a cloud provider like AWS for video.
Here are some key features as they fit into content creator platform workflow to help you get going faster.
Content creation module (referred to as Creator Studio in Kajabi) is primary tool to build, edit, repurpose and market professonal grade material without needing external skills or products.
These features in part or as a whole allow you to build into your product all video-related features in Kajabi. More over features like accelerated uploads, realtime encoding and resumable uploads set the stage for a superior expereince for your creators.
These features extend beyond content creation module to to Website and landing pages module (called Kajabi Pages)
You can test these features with our $25.00 free credit in Pay-as-you-go plan. Watch these VOD or Livestreaming videos; stream your videos or live events in minutes as opposed to months it will take to build all this in-house. These developer friendly features allow early-stage companies seaching for product-market fit to get into market fast.
Features listed like watermarking, auto-generated subtitles etc produce video elements focussed on video expereince, engagement and repurpossing. These are essential to how people explore and expereince video content in 2025.
The website and landing page module, and Kajabi’s own web and mobile apps have to balance customization, expereince and proactive analytics. Features like free customizable video player allow you to build compontents and templates that can be alinged to creator and their audience preferences with little development.
Another key expereince feature is adaptive bitrate streaming, which allows for viewers to have a seamless viewing experience in varying internet conditions.
From analytics perspective, our Video Data SDK can track in-depth analytics that creator or their audience are expereincing. These include things people were complaining about Kajabi on Google store reviews like some videos are not playing or working well on certain mobile or crashing etc. Our Video Data SDKs and the data they capture proatively alert you to these incidents with complete log and event data, so you can fix bugs and performance issues before folks start complaining.
We make all this easy for developers with the features listed here, but also the SDKs listed further down in our developer freindly section. Specifically SDKs covering various web and mobile framework allows for native expereinces in these platforms.
Unfortunately content theft is an issue in the digital creator economy with 70-80% of online courses facing some form of piracy. This is across platforms like Kajabi, Teachale, Thinkific etc. Our video secruity features and access policies allow you and your creators to protect content and loss of revenue.
Referred to “Marketing tab” and “Contacts” tab in Kajabi, these modules help creators manage their content and customer relationships. They all integrate with Kajabi’s broader ecosystem and are interconnected.
But here is a possible diffrentiator for folks building creator platform – current features in most tools like Kajabi, Teachable etc are very basic. There is gap in market for more actionable analytics. There is also no platform level recommendation system which possibly helps personalize content feeds and suggestions based on things like geography, backgrounds or other such data. Such tools can be helpful for creators to increase monetization and for audience to explore new learning content.
FastPix Video data gives you all the below data which can really help you build better analytics, recommendation engine, and monetization capabilities for your creators and audience.
FastPix’s Video API platform brings all the tools and functionality you need in one place so you can build successful video-centric applications. In other words, it’s everything you need in one platform with a single login and contract. A genuine single source to action the roadmap today and as it evolves quickly tomorrow. Our developer-facing features, SDKs and guides allow you start and deploy the most complext uses 400% faster.
Our pricing is also 100% transparent. Check FastPix pricing page and our calculator to get a quick estimate of possible costs – do note we charge only on consumption. So bills scale only as your product and its usage scales. No usage, no costs. And our pricing comes with automatic volume and resolution tiers, so you don’t need to negotiate with us ever for growing!
Folks often use as the video vendor alongside say a larger cloud infrastructure like AWS or GCP. For video related worklows, we’re 65% cheaper than AWS. We default to charging as little as possible while still making a profit – we also have a generous free tier for our products. We do this because we want you to try risk-free, build, and get close to launch before you need to pay us. We also offer a generous start up program. You can explore how to use FastPix and AWS together – FastPix for video and AWS for everything else – thereby building a more efficient and effective infrastructure.
You can integrate video uploads and playback using a unified video API like FastPix. It supports accelerated uploads, real-time encoding, and adaptive playback across web and mobile, without building your own infrastructure.
Using a managed video platform with SDKs for uploads, content processing, and analytics lets you launch faster. FastPix offers prebuilt SDKs for web, mobile, and Flutter to speed up development.
Not necessarily. With platforms like FastPix, you can handle uploads, storage, playback, content security, and video analytics within a single API, removing the need for separate encoding servers, CDN setup, or analytics pipelines.
Use a video-native analytics layer like FastPix Video Data to track playback success, buffering, resolution shifts, and viewer engagement. SDKs are available for web, iOS, Android, and smart TVs.
Essential features include resumable uploads, adaptive bitrate playback, secure streaming (DRM or signed URLs), metadata tagging, analytics, and customizable players. Bonus features like chapters, key moments, and watermarking improve creator control and user experience.
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