01 Membership
Your Community. Your Membership.
Build a membership platform with exclusive video content. Recurring revenue through loyal members – without platform dependency.
- +3 new members today
- 156 video views today
02 Benefits
Recurring Revenue with Video Content
Membership models are the key to stable, recurring income.
Stable, predictable income every month. No fluctuations like with single sales.
Only paying members see your premium videos. Secure share links with password protection.
Members feel they belong. A loyal community is priceless.
Every new video increases the value of your membership. Members get more and more.
See which videos are most popular. Understand what your members want.
Your own logo, your own colors. No YouTube or Vimeo branding.
Example calculation
What can you earn?
Calculate your membership potential based on your reach.
03 Setup
From account to first member
Five steps until someone signs in and sees something they get nowhere else.
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Create a workspace
Sign up for free, no credit card. The workspace becomes the portal your members will see.
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Upload and arrange your content
Upload videos, create categories, bundle what belongs together into a series with seasons. The more the archive holds, the more the membership carries.
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Draw the line between free and exclusive
Decide what stays publicly visible and what only members see. The open part draws new people in, the exclusive part keeps them.
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Create members or open registration
Either you create accounts yourself — after a payment that happens elsewhere, for instance — or you open registration in the portal. Every account can be deactivated individually.
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Publish on your own domain
Logo, colours and your own address. From then on your members go straight to you instead of through somebody else.
04 Recommended product
Video Portal for Memberships
For memberships you need the Video Portal – our Netflix-like platform with login area, categories and custom branding. Perfect for recurring revenue with exclusive video content.
- Member login
- Custom domain
- Your branding
05 Questions
Questions about the member area
What is the difference between members and password protection?
A password is the same for everyone: whoever passes it on gives access to all. A member has an account with their own email, can be deactivated individually and gets progress and a watchlist. For a membership the account is the right way, a password suits a single video.
Can members register themselves?
Yes, registration in the portal can be opened up. Alternatively you create accounts by hand when payment happens elsewhere and you only follow up with access. Which variant belongs to which plan is in the pricing overview.
See pricingWhat do members see when they sign in?
Their portal with your categories and series, at the top whatever they started and did not finish, plus their watchlist. The position is stored per account, not per device.
Can I show individual content for free?
Yes. Visibility is set per video and per series — public, unlisted or private, and for series members only on top. So a first episode can stay open while the rest sits behind the login.
What happens when someone cancels?
You deactivate the account, access ends, the content stays untouched. If the person comes back you reactivate the same account — progress and watchlist are still there.
06 Where it stops
Where a membership here is not enough
Four areas that stay next to the video portal.
- Community features There are no comments, no forums and no direct messages. If the exchange is the actual value of your membership, you need a second tool for it.
- Billing and dunning Failed payments, reminders and invoices to your members are not part of the video side. That runs through whatever service you take money with.
- Newsletters You keep announcing new episodes through your email tool. The portal sends no bulk mail to your members.
- Reach A portal of your own is not found just because it exists. New members arrive through the channels where you are visible anyway — this is where they land once they are convinced.
07 Read on
Where to go from here
- For content creators How creators build their own platform alongside a YouTube channel.
- For fitness & yoga Membership with course seasons, progress and downloads per member.
- See the video portal The product behind the member area — login, categories, custom domain.
- See pricing Which plan includes members, registration and a custom domain.
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Start your membership
No credit card required. Try AboveStream for free and build your membership platform.