It’s now more important than ever for creators and entrepreneurs to diversify their revenue streams. Squarespace is releasing new tools to help our customers meet this moment, and earn income through selling digital products and content. Beginning today, customers will be able to easily host, showcase and sell access to video content directly through the Squarespace platform.
We launched Member Areas in 2020 to provide creators with a new way to sell content through memberships. Since then, we’ve seen an increase in video content being utilized, and to help customers better leverage this medium, our latest releases offer a seamless way to monetize video content such as classes. If you are just starting to explore merchandising video on our platform, these tools are powered by Squarespace’s best-in-class design and enable brand consistency across all touchpoints.
The new video monetization tools help creators and business owners including chefs, instructors, wellness providers, and educators diversify revenue streams and earn passive income by selling content. With these tools, customers can:
Sell access to video content: With Member Areas, customers can choose to charge a one-time or recurring fee to access their video content.
Host video directly on Squarespace: Squarespace is now supporting native video hosting on our platform, in addition to externally hosted videos on YouTube and Vimeo.
Video hosting storage: All customers will be able to upload up to 30 minutes of high-resolution video content to their website for free.
Leverage our new video player: All Squarespace hosted videos will be played on our new video player with slick playback, speed controls, resolution controls, and a deep integration into the Squarespace platform.
Customize video details: Titles, descriptions, URLs, custom thumbnails, metadata, and more can be fully customized.
Merchandise video content: Videos can easily be categorized, arranged, and styled to best represent a customer’s brand.
Any Squarespace customer can now utilize these layouts designed to beautifully display video content, and those with Member Areas can monetize content and get additional hours of video hosting storage. Member Areas is available as an add-on product to any Squarespace website subscription and plans start at $9 a month.
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