Paid Content

How paid content works

Once you've enabled monetization, you will need to set up pricing to start renting your videos. Learn how to set up pricing here.

Paid content allows you to earn revenue two ways.

1. Rent your videos to users on an individual, on-demand basis for 48 hours at a time.
2. Sell a paid monthly subscription that gives paying users access to view all of your channel's videos.

Either way, the pricing for these options is completely up to you. Keep in mind that in-stream ads are disabled on all paid videos. In-stream ads will still be served on videos that are not listed as paid content.

With paid content, you'll earn a 70% share of all revenue generated by customers who rent your videos or pay to subscribe to your channel. The more views your videos get, the more revenue you earn—so make sure to share and embed your paid content videos to source more rentals and subscriptions. 

To get paid, make sure to add your banking information. Earned revenue will automatically be transferred to your PayPal account or bank account every month when your balance exceeds $100. Also, you can always track your revenue and view your payments.

Learn more about monetization and its benefits here.

Set up pricing

With paid content you can either rent your videos on demand and/or on a monthly subscription basis.

To set up a paid monthly subscription that allows users to view all of your paid content, reach us with the following form.

 Follow the steps below to set up on-demand pricing for a video.

1. Go to your Videos section.
   
2. From your list of uploads, choose the video you would like to edit by clicking its title.
   
3. Click the small pencil icon (pencil icon image) below the video to access to the Video Information and Settings page.
   
4. Scroll down and click the arrow next to Pay-Per-View.
   
5. Fill out the form fields as desired:
• Sell This Video: Check this box to enable pay-per-view pricing.
• Price: Set the price of renting this video.
• Available For: Duration of the video rental.
• Add to Subscription: Check this box to enable this video as part of subscription pricing as well.
  Note: This option is only available if you have enabled subscription pricing.
• Free Preview Duration: Duration in seconds of the video's free preview.
• Limit of Simultaneous Streams: Maximum number of devices that can stream content at the same time.
  
6. Click the Save button to save your changes.

Note: Remember to publish your video if you listed is as private before setting a price.

Revenue sharing

In the spirit of transparency, we want to let you know exactly how paid content revenue is calculated.

Partners receive 70% of all rental and subscription revenue from their channel's eligible content.

Rent videos on your sites

Once you've set up your pricing, you can rent videos and sell subscriptions on your own websites by embedding the videos. Learn how to embed videos here.

To use our API as a solution, visit our Developer page.