Automatic cold storage¶

Cold storage automatically discounts the videos you rarely use: a video that has not been accessed in the last 30 days counts only half its size against your billable storage.

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.