Should videographers use Google Drive to deliver videos?

Videographers should not use Google Drive as their primary way to deliver videos to clients. It works as storage, but it fails at the part clients experience: the preview is compressed and slow to generate, large files often show "can't preview", and the delivery looks like a shared folder because it is one.

Drive was designed for documents and collaboration inside a Google account. Video delivery has different needs. Clients want instant, high-quality playback on a phone. They should not need a Google login or to request access. You want your branding on the delivery, and you want to know when the file has been downloaded. Drive offers none of that.

There are also practical failures: zipped downloads that stall on multi-gigabyte files, "quota exceeded" errors when a popular file is downloaded too many times, and permission mix-ups that expose the wrong folder.

A dedicated delivery platform like DLVRD fixes all of it: cinematic streaming, untouched originals for download, no client accounts, your brand on every gallery, and notifications when files are collected.