# Start Your Own Video Platform With Shorts and Ads | Vodlix

**Source:** https://vodlix.com/start-your-own-video-platform  
**Kind:** Build a … like X  
**Brand modelled:** YouTube  
**Summary:** Build a branded video platform with vertical shorts, comments and ratings, creator partner uploads and ad or membership revenue on web, mobile and TV.  
**Publisher:** Vodlix

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Your own video platform

## Start Your Own Video Platform for Shorts, Shows and Creators

Move your audience from free video sites to a platform you own. Publish vertical shorts and long-form shows, build community with comments and ratings, and earn from ads or memberships on your terms.

## Own the Audience, Not Just the Uploads

On a shared video site, the platform decides who sees your videos, which ads run next to them and how much of the revenue you keep. Your own video platform turns that around: your brand, your recommendations, your ad rules and a direct relationship with every viewer.

Vodlix suits media brands, creator networks, sports clubs and newsrooms that publish regularly and want to monetise their own audience. On fixed-price plans there is 0% revenue share.

## Built for Publishing at Volume

The formats, engagement and monetisation tools a busy video brand needs.

### Vertical shorts

Publish 9:16 video with portrait thumbnails, grouped into series and volumes, with bulk upload.

### Comments and ratings

Signed-in viewers comment, reply, vote and rate, with platform-wide switches and moderation permissions.

### Live video

Stream live events, with optional live chat through Firebase, PubNub or Ably switched on per title.

### Creator partners

Give creators and content partners their own login to upload videos and see their analytics, with payouts you control.

### Ads and memberships

Monetise any video, shorts included, with advertising, subscriptions or pay-per-title.

### Search and discovery

Help viewers find more with search, curated content rows, Top 10 lists and pages for every person in your videos.

## Short-Form Video That Keeps Viewers Watching

Shorts sit next to your long-form catalogue rather than on a separate app. Turn them on with one setting, upload in bulk and monetise them the same way as everything else.

- 9:16 video with portrait thumbnails
- Grouped as series and volumes
- Convert an existing series into Shorts
- Ads, subscriptions or pay-per-title
- Available through the API

## Build Community Around Every Video

Conversation brings viewers back. Comments, replies and votes sit under each video, ratings take one tap, and your team keeps the space healthy with moderation permissions.

- Comments, replies and up and down votes
- One-tap ratings
- Only signed-in viewers can post
- Admin delete access for moderators

## Bring Multiple Creators Onto One Platform

Run a network rather than a single channel. Each creator or production partner gets a login to upload their own videos and follow their performance, and you set how each one is paid: a share of subscription or pay-per-title revenue, a views-based CPM or a fixed fee.

## Video Platform FAQs

**Q: Who can upload videos to my platform?**

Your team and the content partners you approve, each with their own login. Viewers take part through comments, replies, votes and ratings.

**Q: How can I make money from my videos?**

Run ads, sell memberships, charge per title, or combine them. The model can be set per video, so free shorts can promote paid shows.

**Q: Can I moderate comments?**

Yes. Comments and ratings have platform-wide on and off switches, only signed-in viewers can post, and staff with Admin Delete Access can remove comments.

**Q: Can I pay creators who publish on my platform?**

Yes. The Partner Manager sets a revenue model per partner and handles earnings approval, payouts, invoices and a ledger.

**Q: Does Vodlix take a share of my revenue?**

Not on fixed-price plans, which have 0% revenue share and no per-subscriber fee. See the pricing page for all plan options.

## Launch a Video Platform You Own

Publish your first videos under your own brand and keep the relationship with your audience.