StreamZilla
In an interview with IT Channel Pro, published on 17 September 2026, founders Heino Bosma and Stef van der Ziel explain why they are bringing StreamZilla back as a sovereign European alternative to Vimeo.
They name three risks of depending on non-European platforms: losing your data, others gaining access to it without your consent (through laws such as the CLOUD Act, or for AI training), and a service that suddenly stops. Jet-Stream built its own complete streaming chain in 2019, because in their view “hosted in the EU” alone is not enough.
StreamZilla is built on compliance from the ground up: the GDPR, the European Accessibility Act and WCAG, green hosting and AI that runs in its own cloud. The platform supports uploads up to 4K, automatic subtitles and translations, a player and pages in your own brand, password protection and searchable transcripts. Connections to learning environments and bulk import from other platforms are on the roadmap. Organisations choose between an account on StreamZilla’s European infrastructure and a licence to host it themselves.
“For us it is not a risk. It is a core value.”
“I saw a gap opening up in the market.”
Source: Interview published by IT Channel Pro on 17 September 2026.