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Automatic cold storage

Cold storage automatically discounts the videos you rarely use on the pay-as-you-go line: a video that has not been accessed in the last 30 days counts only half its size on your storage meter.

Packages are different. A package quota (2, 4 or 7 TB) counts every byte you store, watched or not, because the quota is the storage you rent rather than a meter of what you use.

Nothing changes about the video itself: it stays instantly available, and playback and downloads work exactly as before. Once the video is accessed again, it returns to normal storage accounting.

Actions that reset cold storage

  • Watching the video
  • Downloading the original

Seeing it in the API

Cold storage is an accounting mechanism, so there is no cold flag in the API. The video's asset.last_accessed_on field carries the timestamp the discount is computed from: a video whose last_accessed_on is more than 30 days old is being counted at half size on a pay-as-you-go account.