How to sell videos online and keep 97% of what people pay.

01The usual ways

The usual ways to sell a video online, and where the money goes.

Ad revenue pays by the thousand views and the platform keeps a share you do not set. A subscription asks a stranger to commit to a month before they have watched a minute. A marketplace lists your file next to 10,000 others, sets the terms, and pays out on its own calendar.

Each of those is a real way to earn, and plenty of creators do. The common thread is that someone else owns the shop. They decide the price, the cut, the payout date and the rules, and they can change any of them.

If you want to sell videos online for cash, the honest version of that is to be paid directly, as it happens, in a currency you can hold. That is what the 3 ways below do, and the section after them says exactly what the money is and how you get it out.

02Way 1

Viewers pay for what they watch, on your own site or app.

The JubJub player turns any video on your website, blog, newsletter page or app into a paid watch. You set a price per minute. A viewer presses play, connects a wallet, and payment moves from them to you every second the video runs. They stop, it stops.

There is no subscription for them to start and no account for them to create with JubJub. They pay for the minutes they watched, and nothing for the ones they did not. For you, there is no payout schedule, because the payment has already arrived.

• Put the player on your own pages.

  One script tag and one call. It works with the video element you already have, on any host, in any framework. The developers page has the snippet, and JubJub Studio generates your key.

• Or share a link.

  Every piece you publish has a page at jubjubapp.com/watch, with the same player and the same per-second payment. Send the link anywhere a link goes.

• Host it with JubJub, or keep your own.

  JubJub can store and stream the file. If your video already lives on your own host, point the player at it and JubJub only counts the minutes. The payment routes the same either way.

Payments are in USDC on Base, a digital dollar that holds its value at 1 US dollar. 3% is taken by the payment contract when each payment settles, and the other 97% goes to the rights holders of the piece. Those are the only 2 numbers.

03Way 2

AI buyers pay to use your work.

A second kind of customer is already searching for video: AI agents and the companies that run them, looking for human-made material with a clear owner. On JubJub, every piece you publish is findable by those buyers, and anything beyond a preview is paid for per use.

Searching your catalogue is free, so buyers can find you. Access to the structured breakdown of a piece is paid. Access to the full transcript, with your details as the rights holder so they can approach you about a licence, is paid again. The money settles 97% to you and 3% to JubJub, over the x402 protocol, with no invoice and nothing to chase.

Worth being precise about what is sold. It is an introduction to your work and to you, not the video file. Nobody downloads your master through this, and any licence of the footage itself is a conversation you have on your own terms. How agents pay has the mechanics and the current prices are on the pricing page.

Agent access is on by default so that earning takes no setup. If you would rather a piece were not findable, switch it off per piece.

04Way 3

Collaborators are paid their share, automatically.

Most videos are not made by 1 person. An editor, a co-host, a camera operator, a writer. Today their share is a spreadsheet and a transfer you remember to make. On JubJub the share is written into the piece when it goes out.

Set the split once for the team, or override it for one workspace. When a video publishes, the ownership of that piece is recorded with everyone's percentage on it. Every payment the piece earns afterwards, from a viewer or from an agent, is divided by that record at the moment it lands. 97% to the holders in their proportions, 3% to JubJub.

Nobody reconciles. Nobody is owed. The same record that says who owns the piece is the record that pays them, and anyone on it can check it. How ownership is recorded covers the record itself.

05The money

What the money is, and how you get it.

A page about selling videos for cash owes you this part in plain words.

The fee is 3% of revenue, taken by the payment contract at the moment money moves. It is the same 3% for streaming and for agent purchases, and it cannot be changed quietly, because it is written into the contract. There is no subscription, no tier and no listing fee. The pricing page is one line long for that reason.

06How to start

From upload to first payment.

1. Sign up at studio.jubjubapp.com and connect your channels.

   Free. Connect the platforms you already publish to, with your own logins, and connect the wallet your payments should land in.

2. Publish a piece through JubJub.

   It goes out to your platforms as usual, and the ownership record is written as part of publishing, with your team's split on it if you have one.

3. Set a price per minute.

   From the Studio, or by asking your AI assistant. Every piece carries a default until you change it.

4. Put the player on your site, or share the watch link.

   Paste the snippet from the developers page, or send the jubjubapp.com/watch link for the piece. The first paid minute lands as it is watched.