How to Protect Videos on Amazon S3 with Expiring Links (Urls)…

Viddymatic has Amazon S3 hotlinking protection built-in!

“What the hell does that mean?”

Well, with a ‘standard’ S3 setup, ‘everyone’ can read your files  – which allows people to come to your website and watch videos (or other media) that you store in your Amazon S3 bucket.

That’s what you want, right?…

Sure - but it also means that others can ‘share’ the link to your video (or other files) in places you might not want them to.

And remember: every time that video gets downloaded or watched from your S3 account, you are the one paying for it!

What many Amazon S3 users don’t realise is that it’s possible to prevent access to files in your bucket unless it’s from your own web site(s). This gives you control over which websites your videos get watched from…but it does require some technical expertise.

Viddymatic has that expertise built in…

…which means you can heavily reduce the effect of money-sapping bandwidth thieves without lifting a finger!

Live Amazon S3 Protection Demo:

The video below live on a protected bucket and uses Viddymatic’s S3 expiring links feature.

So, you can play and watch the video (or even download it) from this page, but you wouldn’t be able to share the link to the video itself on another website or access it directly, because  it requires an ‘access key’ that automatically expires after a time limit that you decide on (which is what Viddymatic sorts out invisibly in the background):

Here’s the actual direct link to the video file that’s being used – when you try to access it (just click it) you’ll get an error. That’s because it’s protected…

…What Viddymatic does seemlessly behind the scenes  is provide temporary access to it ONLY on this web page – which is why the Viddymatic video above works perfectly!

http://media.viddymatic.com.s3.amazonaws.com/preview.flv

Protect MORE than just videos!

You can actually use Viddymatic in a WordPress ‘members area’ (for example), or in protected posts, to give protection to ANY type of file in your S3 buckets.

That means you can limit access to pdfs (Adobe’s digital document format), exe files, zip files, and pretty much anything else you darn well like! All from just using the Viddymatic control panel

You can do exactly the same with YouTube videos as popups too…

YouTube movie as a popup video:

You’re not restricted to using your own hosted videos (videos stored on your own website)…

Viddymatic let’s you take advantage of YouTube in a very special way: redirection and ‘click strips’ included!

That means you can easily use existing YouTube videos for money-making affiliate marketing and/or list building!

You can also link to almost any page (not just videos/mp3s) using an image or standard text link …

This one uses a text link to pop up a separate page:

Click here to show it.

You don’t have to use an image to link to your video…

…using is just as easy to add using the Viddymatic control panel.

REDIRECTING TO POPUPS…

One button click on the Viddymatic control panel, and your video can redirect to ANY other web page as a popup!

This makes Viddymatic great for using video to build your lists, or showing an order button or order page for a product straight after it finishes playing:

Popup Video: REDIRECTION – THE REVENGE…

Add just one extra bit of text in the Viddymatic control panel, and your video gets pimped out with a ‘click strip’ too!…

Popup Video: REDIRECTED…

Add one extra link in the Viddymatic control panel, and your video can redirect to ANY other web page you like!

That one’s a popup video, but it could just have easily been ‘embedded’ into the page – you just select the type with a single button click in the simple Viddymatic control panel.

Using automatic redirection of your videos is one of the keys to making money from the use of video on your website (or blog), and Viddymatic’s WordPress Video Plugin makes this easy peasy!