Reelroom

About us

We were the team that kept rebuilding the video pipeline

Reelroom is the fourth time we built this, and the first time we got to keep it.

2019
founded
108
people
28
countries
100%
engineer-owned

Origin

The same three months, four times

Between us we had built an encoding-and-delivery pipeline at four different companies. It always took a quarter, it was always load-bearing, and it was never the product. So we built it once more, properly, with an API surface small enough that a product engineer can read it in a sitting.

  • Plain HLS and DASH — no proprietary manifest
  • Originals are yours and downloadable
  • Every price is on the pricing page
2020

First asset encoded

Three people, one rack of encoders.

2021

Live streaming

Same API, RTMP in, HLS out.

2023

AV1 in production

28% bitrate saving at equal VMAF.

2024

Multi-CDN steering

Real-time, based on measured throughput.

2026

2.9 B minutes

Delivered across 38 metros.

How we work

Boring on purpose

We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.

Own the path

We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.

Write it down

Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.

Some of the people behind it

A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.

G. MarchettiSecurity
E. DuarteSecurity
I. NovákReliability
B. SørensenProduct
Y. TanakaSupport
Q. DialloProduct
A. VasquezPlatform
H. FerreiraDesign

We are hiring

Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.