01 For Content Creators
Independent.
Your Platform.
Build your own video platform. Exclusive content for your most loyal fans – without YouTube algorithm, without ads before your videos.
- No Algorithm
- 100% Ad-Free
- Exclusive Content
02 The Problem
YouTube controls your business
As a creator, you depend on platforms. The algorithm decides who sees your videos. Other people's ads run before your content.
Your reach depends on YouTube. A change in the algorithm can destroy your entire business.
YouTube keeps a large portion of ad revenue. You work, others earn.
Ads from other brands run before your videos. Sometimes even from your competitors.
03 The Solution
Build your own video platform
With AboveStream, you host exclusive content for your community. Payments stay in your existing checkout, you keep control, and AboveStream takes no revenue share.
Offer exclusive videos to members you activate after your checkout confirms access. Behind-the-scenes, early access, director's cut — your community gets a private experience.
Your fans come directly to you – not to YouTube. You build a real relationship with your community.
Own domain, own logo, own colors. Your platform looks like you – not like YouTube.
No algorithm, no censorship, no demonetization. You decide what your community sees.
See exactly who watches your videos. Detailed analytics without YouTube filters.
Professional video quality. Your content deserves the best presentation.
Creator Calculator
Calculate your creator income
See what you can earn with your own platform.
04 Setup
From sign-up to your own platform
What you do, in order, until your community sees the first exclusive video.
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Create a workspace
Sign up for free, no credit card. The workspace becomes your portal later on — name, logo and colours can be adjusted at any time.
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Upload your first video
Upload whatever comes out of your edit, in any format. Transcoding to HLS in several quality levels runs automatically; the player picks the right one.
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Set up categories and series
Categories are what your viewers navigate by in the portal. Related episodes become a series with seasons; standalone pieces go into collections.
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Define the membership
Every video is public, unlisted or private, every series can additionally be members only. Members get their own account that you can deactivate individually.
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Connect your own domain
Publish the portal under your own address, for example videos.your-brand.com. We provide the SSL certificate. Then you invite your community.
05 Our Recommendation
Video Portal for Creators
As a content creator, we recommend the Video Portal – your own Netflix-like platform with login for members you activate after checkout. Exclusive content, own branding, full control over your community.
- Membership Login
- Own Branding
- No YouTube
06 Questions
What creators ask before switching
Do I have to give up my YouTube channel?
No. Most people keep the channel for reach and put the exclusive material next to it: long cuts, raw footage, content the algorithm would never surface anyway. AboveStream holds what your community pays for.
How do my fans get into the member area?
Either you create members yourself — after a payment that happens elsewhere, for instance — or you open up registration in the portal. Either way these are accounts with an email and a password, not a shared access code.
What each plan coversWhat do I get to see about my viewers?
Views, watch time and drop-off points per video, plus the progress within a series for signed-in members. What does not happen is ad profiling: no tracking cookies and no third parties are involved.
Can members pick up where they left off?
Yes. The portal stores the position of every video per account and moves unfinished items back to the top. There is also a watchlist that members fill themselves with what they want to see later.
Can I embed videos on my website at the same time?
Yes. The same video can live in the portal and sit on your website via embed code. Both products are part of every plan, so you do not have to choose.
More on video hosting07 Where it stops
What AboveStream is not for creators
Four things that stay somewhere else. Better read now than after the move.
- Reach AboveStream never suggests your video to anyone. There are no recommendations, no feed, no search across other channels. New viewers still come through YouTube, newsletters or social media — this is where the ones who already want you end up.
- Comments and community There are no comments, no forums, no direct messages. The portal shows videos. Your conversations keep happening wherever they happen today.
- Ad revenue No ads run, and there is no payout either. Revenue comes from paid access to your content, not from advertising slots.
- Video editing You upload finished videos. Cutting, colour and audio mixing happen beforehand in your editing software. Afterwards you can add chapter marks, subtitles and thumbnails — the material itself stays untouched.
08 Read on
Where to go from here
- Build a membership How viewers turn into paying members: accounts, visibility, continue watching.
- See the video portal The product behind your own platform — login, categories, custom domain.
- AboveStream compared with YouTube What you gain and what you give up, put side by side point by point.
- See pricing Which plan includes members, a custom domain and paid access.
09 For Content Creators
Become independent
No credit card required. Try AboveStream for free and build your own video platform.