About Monetizing Videos

Can I really set the streaming price for rentals of my original videos?

Yes. Isn’t it great? You set the fee you want to be paid for each rental of your video. To get started, it's a minimum charge of $5.99 (USD) -- that buys you 500 VidaFair tokens called "grains" which is enough for 5 separate video uploads (each video upload costs g100). VidaFair grain tokens are valued at one penny each, assuming a minimum $20 level either direction. That applies to either converting $20 to 2,000 grains, or redeeming 2,000 grains for $20 via our PayPal "cash out" transaction (less a 2% transfer fee). 

How do I get paid for views?

Once rentals of your content have generated a balance of 2,000 grains or more (which equates to just a $20 minimum), you can use the Cash Out feature in the VidaFair drop down menu to get paid. After supplying a PayPal-registered email address, you can request 2,000 grains or more to be converted to dollars. Cash Out requests are closed each week at Saturday at 12:00amET (NYC time), take about a week for processing, and are subject to a 2% financial transaction fee.  

How much can I make?

Use our Earnings Calculator to see for yourself! It's in the drop down menu on the VidaFair homepage. Enter a video duration, the creator fee you might want to be paid per rental, and the number of views you might expect in 12-months. (Minimum allowable rental prices are a product of video duration.)

How should I set those prices?

That’s up to you — creators are free to set their own fees per rental. Our Earnings Calculator makes it easy to see how different creator fees affect rental price points for your video's duration. 

In general, we advise creators to set modest fees. After all, most people aren’t yet accustomed to gatekeeper free, pay-per-stream content. We believe fairness in pricing will foster loyalty among viewers over time, and lower-than-expected pricing often results in more overall revenue. 

Why doesn't VidaFair charge a percentage?

Since VidaFair's variable costs are based on streaming and storage services, which are tied to file size, we believe it's fairest to base our fee on video duration rather than the creator's choice for a fee. A streaming platform isn't providing more of a service simply because a content creator priced it higher. A platform's streaming fee should be based on its costs -- at least if the objective is maximizing fairness. 

Will my fans need to subscribe to your service?

No. VidaFair neither requires, nor even offers subscriptions. VidaFair units of value are called grains, and they're approximately equal to U.S. pennies, or cents. Every VidaFair grain purchase is a one-time transaction, and each new purchase has to be authorized separately by users.

We believe that while subscriptions may have a place, they aren't the best fit for every style of video content, especially independent producers. It's important for your potential viewers to know that this platform will never ask them to subscribe. #SubscriptionFatigue

To Cash Out 2,000 grains to US$20, must all the grains be generated by a single video?

No. All you need is to have a minimum of 2,000 grains (sometimes expressed as "g2000") and a PayPal ID. (Cash Outs are subject to a 2% financial transaction fee.)

How do I ask fans to pay for content that's already free on other platforms, like YouTube?

You probably shouldn't (although nothing would stop you). We recommend that creators continue producing content for existing platforms as they have before, and use VidaFair for different, special content unavailable elsewhere, or possibly even older, archived content. In this regard, it would be quite similar to how some creators promote separate content for a Patreon subscriber platform. The difference, of course, is that renting videos on VidaFair requires no subscriptions and can cost only pennies to view via our micropayment architecture. 

Should I market the videos I upload to VidaFair?

Yes. VidaFair is a new content monetization platform. While people browsing VidaFair content will be able to see your work, you should also tell your followers that it's available for rent on VidaFair, for the low, low price of... an amount mostly determined by you.

Promoting unique VidaFair content to subscribers via social media would be akin to promoting subscription-only Patreon content via social media -- which is quite common.  

How will I persuade followers to enter a credit card when they're used to watching videos for free? 

You might want to let them know:

• They will not be subscribing -- every single VidaFair grain purchase is a one-time, a la carte transaction. Who needs another subscription?

• They will not be subjected to advertising on the VidaFair website or app.

• The entry level grain package price of US$5.99 is a one-time charge that does not repeat. This means if they buy $5.99 of grains once, no other charge will ever appear unless they authorize it again. In an online media space increasingly dominated by subscriptions, this is the key difference and a strategic advantage of the VidaFair model. 

• They can depend on the security of PayPal payment processing for cash outs (via web browser access). 

• No one will ever sell their content choices to marketers. They should know VidaFair is not involved in other businesses like search engines, email services or ad campaigns. 

After uploading a video, does it remain on the platform forever?

Videos uploaded to VidaFair remain available for rental for a minimum period of one year, although videos actively receiving rentals will continue to get extended at no charge. By uploading to VidaFair, content creators agree that they will retain other copies of the videos, and VidaFair will not be responsible for storing the only copy of a video. 

Will VidaFair own the content I upload? 

No. Unlike some other video streaming platforms, VidaFair will never claim any form of ownership over any video content. Uploading to VidaFair has no effect on copyrights. 

Why does VidaFair have grain tokens at all -- why not just use dollars for everything? 

Financial transaction fees and credit card charges were never designed for inexpensive, micropayment-level transactions that are required for VidaFair's model of online video rentals. VidaFair's proprietary method of adapting the internet token architecture to rentals of video streams is one of the key innovations that made our service possible, and why nothing like it exists elsewhere. Our grain tokens seamlessly enable both simple, one-time a la carte video rentals, as well as volume discounts for repeat users via our grain token packages. 

VidaFair's grain tokens, in fact, are quite easy to understand once you get used to them. You can think of the VidaFair grains you earn as U.S. pennies -- simply move the decimal point over two digits to the left to convert your grain balance to the dollar amount that you'll be able to cash out, after a minimum g2,000 balance is met, (less a 2% financial transaction fee). 

Do you really care about copyrights?

It’s a violation of VidaFair's Terms and Conditions for anyone to upload video content for which they do not have ownership or authority to monetize. We take copyright strikes seriously and reserve the right to immediately and permanently ban users who are deemed to have violated our copyright policy. We will also remove such videos without refund. 

The Fair Use provisions of modern U.S. copyright law allow for use of short segments of other people's work for purposes of critique or satire. VidaFair takes a stricter interpretation of Fair Use than many other sites. We do not allow continuous clips of over 60 seconds of another person's work for any reason, and we do not allow videos where over 50% of the entire content came from someone besides the VidaFair uploader. We are not limited to these provisions when enforcing copyrights, but they are our starting point. Videos may also be removed for unlicensed use of music or photographs. Users agree in advance that VidaFair's interpretation of copyright infringements are final. 

How about Videos with doxing, threats or porn?

We do not allow videos with personal information about another individual (doxing), child abuse, threats of violence or pornography. While we understand the definitions of these things can sometimes be subjective, VidaFair reserves the right to remove a video from the platform for any reason, without providing a refund or explanation to the content creator. By uploading videos, content creators understand these decisions will be made unilaterally by VidaFair. VidaFair also reserves the right to permanently cancel accounts for these or any reason, purely at VidaFair's discretion.    

Can I use the VidaFair mobile app to upload video?

No. While videos can be rented and viewed via the same account on either a web browser or mobile app, videos can only be uploaded through a computer's internet browser.  

Will VidaFair change the world?

We hope so. Just like how other artists have the freedom to set prices for their own creative work, we believe video content creators should have the same latitude. Doesn’t that seem fair? We think so. Join us and monetize your work today.