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An alternative to Blue Billywig you can verify
Both Dutch. The difference is what you can check for yourself.
Blue Billywig and StreamZilla are both Dutch video platforms, and both call themselves European and sovereign. Claims like that are easy to make and hard to check. Blue Billywig’s website says its video runs in European data centres at Scaleway. Our analysis shows something else: its video files, its analytics and its video management system all run on Amazon Web Services, an American company. That is why StreamZilla publishes what you need to verify ours: our sub-processors with their countries, our compliance statements, how we score ourselves against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework and, from launch, our prices.
And sovereignty is not the only difference. In our measurements, StreamZilla produces files up to five times smaller for the same quality. That saves up to 80% in storage costs and 50% in traffic costs. And where the Blue Billywig website is full of tracking scripts, ours has none.
Below you will find the differences side by side, and eight checks you can run on any video platform. Including ours.
Free during the beta. For organisations. Nothing to pay.
Proof, not promises
A public sub-processor list with countries, our compliance statements on request, and the substantiation of our sovereignty self-assessment on request.
Hosted or self-hosted
Take a StreamZilla account on our European infrastructure, or license StreamZilla and run it on your own servers, even air-gapped. Your choice, your control.
Up to 5x more efficient
Our encoding saves up to 80% in storage costs and 50% in traffic costs, for the same picture quality. You pay for fewer gigabytes, and your viewers wait less.
Far simpler to use
Drag your video in and StreamZilla does the rest: qualities up to 4K, poster images, subtitles, a transcript and translations. No modules to configure, no training needed.
StreamZilla and Blue Billywig compared
What both companies state publicly, and what we measured ourselves.
| StreamZilla and Blue Billywig compared | StreamZilla | Blue Billywig |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Jet-Stream Services B.V., Groningen, streaming since 1994 | Blue Billywig Group BV, Hilversum, independently owned since 2006 |
| Infrastructure | Our own hardware in two Dutch data centres, delivered from our own IP address space, registered with RIPE since 2004 | Its website claims Scaleway data centres in Amsterdam and Frankfurt. In our analysis, the videos, the analytics and the video management system run on Amazon Web Services |
| Video delivery | From our own platform; popular videos are offloaded to Bunny.net (Slovenia) | Its website promises European CDN edge nodes. In our test on 12 November 2026, the video in its own WCAG demo player streamed from Amazon CloudFront |
| Encoding efficiency | Files up to 5x smaller: up to 80% less storage and 50% less traffic, in our measurements | Files up to 5x larger in our measurements, so substantially higher storage and traffic costs |
| Viewing statistics | Server-side, on our own EU platform, not shared with any third party | Sent to Amazon Web Services, according to our analysis of its player. In our test, its own WCAG demo player also set Google Analytics cookies and loaded Google Tag Manager |
| Green hosting | Certified green data centres, 100% renewable energy, measured energy use | Not demonstrably green: no own certification published, and its sustainability page relies on the sustainability goals of its cloud partner Amazon Web Services |
| Sub-processor list | Public, with countries, on our Compliance & Legal page | Available on request |
| Sovereignty assessment | Self-assessment against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework published: SEAL-4 on seven of eight objectives | Not published |
| Host it yourself under licence | Yes, also air-gapped | Not published |
| Prices | Fixed plans in euros, from €19 a month | On request, tailored per customer |
| Trackers and cookies on the website | None, so no cookie banner | Numerous tracking scripts, and a consent banner including marketing cookies |
| Ease of use | Built to be simple: upload, manage and publish in a few clicks, with subtitles and translations created automatically | A broad platform with many modules and options |
| Interactive video | No | Yes |
| Live streaming | Coming to StreamZilla. Until then, our parent company Jet-Stream, live streaming since 2003, helps you | Yes |
Based on public information, checked on 11 November 2026. Brand names belong to their respective owners. Spotted an error? Email e-mail and we will correct it.
Eight checks for any sovereignty claim
Sovereignty is not a feature you can read on a homepage. It is a property of the whole chain, from the company to the last network your viewer connects to. Run these checks on every provider you consider. Run them on us too: that is what they are for.
- Who owns the company, and who owns the owner? Ask for a Chamber of Commerce extract of every entity up to the top.
- Where do the management interface and the API run? Look up the IP address of the dashboard and check which network it belongs to.
- Which network delivers the video? Look up the IP addresses your viewers actually connect to, from inside and outside Europe.
- What does the player load? Open your browser’s developer tools and list every domain the player contacts while a video plays.
- Does the player or the website set cookies? If you need a consent banner for a video, someone is collecting more than playback.
- Where do the viewing statistics go? Find the endpoint the player reports to, and who owns it.
- Is there a public list of sub-processors, with their countries? If it is only available on request, ask for it before you sign.
- Can you leave? Check the export formats, and whether switching or egress fees apply. Under the Data Act, those fees disappear from 12 January 2027.
Want to know how StreamZilla scores on each of them? Read what makes video hosting sovereign, or ask us for the full substantiation.
Sovereign on the website, Amazon underneath
Blue Billywig’s website says that storage, transcoding and delivery run in Tier III data centres in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, at the European provider Scaleway, and that no video is served via US-based infrastructure without the customer’s explicit opt-in.
That is not what we found. When we traced the network traffic of its platform, the video files, the viewing statistics and the video management system all turned out to run on Amazon Web Services. Amazon is an American company, subject to the CLOUD Act wherever its data centres are located. That is exactly the dependency a sovereign platform is supposed to remove.
Do not take our word for it either. The checks below show you how to see it for yourself, in a few minutes, with nothing more than a browser.
Up to five times more efficient
We have been building streaming chains since 1994, and we measure what others deliver. In our measurements of video as viewers actually receive it, StreamZilla produces files up to five times smaller for the same picture quality. For you, that means up to 80% lower storage costs and 50% lower traffic costs.
Efficient encoding is also the greenest byte: every bit we do not store or send saves energy. And our output follows the formal streaming specifications, so it plays on every device without surprises.
Privacy is more than a sovereignty statement
Visit the Blue Billywig website and you will find numerous tracking scripts and a consent banner that asks for marketing cookies. According to our analysis of its player, viewing statistics are sent to Amazon Web Services. A platform that calls itself sovereign should not need either.
StreamZilla sets no cookies, on our website or in our player. The player loads no external services. Viewing statistics are collected server-side, on our own platform in the EU, pseudonymised and not shared with any third party.
Far simpler to use
Blue Billywig is a broad platform, with modules for advertising, interactive formats, shorts and more. That breadth comes at a price: more menus, more settings, more to learn. StreamZilla is built around three steps: upload, manage, publish.
Drag your video in, and StreamZilla creates every quality up to 4K, poster images, timeline previews, subtitles and a full transcript, automatically. Translate the subtitles in a few clicks, brand the player, choose who may watch, and embed it. Anyone in your organisation can do it, without training.
Switching from Blue Billywig
Export your videos and metadata, upload them to StreamZilla and replace your embed codes. During the private beta we guide every participant through the move personally.
When Blue Billywig is the better choice
- You need interactive or shoppable formats inside the video itself.
Frequently asked questions
Is Blue Billywig European?
The company is: Blue Billywig is Dutch. Its infrastructure is another story. In our analysis, its videos, analytics and video management system run on Amazon Web Services, an American company subject to the CLOUD Act. Run the eight checks on this page on every provider, including us, and see for yourself.
What is the main difference between StreamZilla and Blue Billywig?
Blue Billywig is a broad video platform with advertising, monetisation and interactive formats. StreamZilla focuses on hosting and publishing video under European law, without placing ads of its own, no cookies, a public sub-processor list, an optional self-hosted licence and automatic subtitles and translations created by AI that runs in the EU.
Can I switch from Blue Billywig to StreamZilla?
Yes. Your videos and metadata are yours: export them, upload them to StreamZilla and replace your embed codes. We help beta participants with the move.
Is StreamZilla cheaper than Blue Billywig?
Blue Billywig does not publish its prices. What we can say: StreamZilla encodes up to five times more efficiently in our measurements, which means up to 80% lower storage costs and 50% lower traffic costs for the same quality. Since storage and traffic drive the cost of video hosting, that difference shows up in every plan.
Is StreamZilla easier to use than Blue Billywig?
Yes. StreamZilla is built around three steps, upload, manage and publish, and creates qualities up to 4K, subtitles, a transcript and translations automatically. Blue Billywig is a broader platform with more modules and settings.
I need live streaming. What now?
Live streaming is coming to StreamZilla. Until then, our parent company Jet-Stream, which has supported live streaming since 2003, is happy to help you. As soon as live streaming is available in StreamZilla, you can switch.
Does StreamZilla show ads?
We never place ads on your videos. Only you can decide to show ads, and then the revenue is yours. Ad services that make this possible are on our roadmap. We earn from subscriptions, not from your viewers.
Sources
- Blue Billywig: European Sovereign OVP, checked 11 November 2026
- Blue Billywig: Pricing, checked 11 November 2026
- Blue Billywig: About us, checked 11 November 2026
- StreamZilla: Compliance & Legal
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