Videolla right now can not receive payments as we have problems with PayPal API. It is not responding to our calls at the moment.
We are trying to address this issue. Update will be posted soon.

 

Update:

And its back now without any changes in code on our side. Looks like PayPal was working super slow on some reason. We have contacted PayPal support. 

Here is PayPal statement:

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/10/paypal-site-outage/

 

Few minutes of your time can make a Real Change.

Please read about our campaign to raise money for Education in US(Mark Zuckerberg's foundation Startup: Education).

Steps to do (should take about 4 minutes):

1) Take a free signup on Videolla.com. Its absolutely free.

2) Record and upload a short video (we suggest 1 minute) of yourself pitching about educational problems and ways to solve it. Set video title to Startup:Education

3) Allow donations for viewers of that video. You can offer extras to your supporters - like  dinner, phone call, etc. You will be able to see who donated on your Videolla dashboard.

4) Use your twitter, facebook and blog to promote your video!

Absolutely all money raised from all these videos will be donated to Mark Zuckerberg's foundation Startup: Education.
(We are open for other Orgs suggestions!)

Just a few minutes of your time can make a real difference. Please support this campaign.

Its very important to reach high-profile people (Stars, Businessmen, Entrepreneurs) so if you know somebody who is really famous, please explain him this campain and help him to publish and promote his video (you even can ask him to email his video and publish it under your account)

Please promote that campaign. Its very hard to get a critical mass, but we believe that its doable.

All video pitches will be accessible on Videolla website. Please check them and consider donating or promoting videos that you like.

Besides all that, Videolla will pick the best pitch and award author with brand new Apple iPad.

Why are we doing this?
Videolla.com is a small video monetization startup, but we take education very seriously.  We want to make online education sustainable and accessible. For example we allow teachers to charge small donations for their video courses. This campaign is our way to give back to community and test our new platform on a bigger scale!

Thank you! Comments and tweets are appreciated. Let's make a difference together!

Yes, I want to support this by uploading my video!

Now you can host your videos on your own server, use Amazon S3 or one of expensive video "video hosting" (a.k.a. i dont know what is s3 and want to spend few hundreds) services like brightcove, ooyala, wistia or whatever.

Videolla can integrate with them and add monetization layer on top of your video files. 

Dont want to pay for other services? Good idea. You can just use our Videolla hosting, instead of expensive 'video hostings' for just a fraction of thier price!

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you. Enjoy!
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)

We launched just few days ago and already getting great feedback and traction.
We love our users and want to help them.
We are attacking very interesting problem on significant and fast growing market.
We have great team with tons of experience and product that gets better every day.
We build our service with zero side investments and new coffee machine.

Now what about you?

Do you have centuries of experience in online media, education or ecommerce / monetization strategies?
Do Rupert and Donald tremble when hear your Name?
Can you kick in the door of any media company?
Does Steve Jobs sometimes call you just to ask for your advice on antenna problem?
Does Michael own you lots of money even after selling TC?
Can you call Eric and ask him to switch off YouTube for a week, just because you want to test something with Videolla?

If so, we would like to hear from you. OR if you know somebody like that, please forward this offer to him, so we can prove you wrong.

Videolla is looking for growth partners. You don't want to miss that.

hello (at) videolla.com

I think Rails was one of the first technologies that demonstrated how screencasts can radically speed up your learning. Do you remember all that buzz after famous Creating a blog in 15 minutes video ? For me and many other people that was exactly that "wow!" moment. I was sold. That is a power to see how things work vs. reading about something. Another proof is TV vs newspapers power.

So people love watching things. Lets just all agree on that.

Here is one site that publish amazing content. I enjoy watching Ryan Bates RailsCasts and I actually learned a lot about Rails thanks to it.
Here is how site looks right now:

As you can see it has lots of great screencasts and donate button is somewhere in the corner.

This might be ok for Ryan and his highly-popular, sponsored website, but might not work for Joe-the-hacker who occasionally publish some great screencasts on his blog. Visitors might super appreciate his video, that just saved them tons of time and nervers.

But lets face it - they will most likely forget/or didnt want to spend time to leave some tips/donations for that! That is one of ideas behind startups like Flattr.

Now what if Joe-the-hacker has $200/hour job in bank and knows how to code in some "SUPERPJAWA" system? Why on earth will he ever spend few hours to make some high quality screencasts or tutorial? Remember, this is not blog post that you can quickly write in 15 mins. That might take few hours and special preparation to produce high a quality video tutorial.

Ads?  Hardly his small blog has enough traction.
Self-PR, to get dream google job? Not sustainable and not effective.

Now imagine Joe can produce great content and make small amount of money on that. Imagine people will easily donate him or buy his courses. Maybe $10/month (that is just two $5 donations from random visitors). If he makes 5-10 such videos over month that is $100/month of passive income.

Now lets think for a second - how cool is that? He can spend more or less time, make great content or just short junk, experiment will all possible pricing models from donations to very strict one hour access for $1000? What kind of content can be created in such eco-system?

Today Videolla rolled donations as one of supported business models. You can suggest your users to pay/donate whatever for your video right within the player.

Can we make video education sustainable with such system? You tell us!

Example:

 

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you. Enjoy!
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)

In this video publisher allowed to purchase a full version of that video for $1 or "pay what you want" for 30 subcription for his channel of videos!

We are excited to see this adoptation of our system! You can do it as well! Upload your paid or donate-sponsored videos today! Its absolutely free!

You spend so much time producing this amazing video!  Now, what is it worth?

 

With Videolla.com you can let your customers decide! Customers just name price for full version of your video(you can set minimum if you want to)! Is it 1 cent of 100 bucks? Let your customers decide!

We are the first premium video marketplace that introduced that model!

How cool is that?

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you. Enjoy!
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)

Videolla platform is switching to recently announced PayPal Micropayments!
It would allow us to offer less fees for our users just 5% + 5cents on premium accounts and 10%+5c on free accounts! With average price for videos  < $10 that would allow you to make more money and pay less fees (Which is really cool)!

Before(3%+$0.30):
Sale: $1 - Fee: $0.33
Sale: $5 - Fee: $0.45

After(5%+$0.05):
Sale: $1 - Fee: $0.10
Sale: $5 - Fee: $0.30

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you. Enjoy!
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)

With our new billing system you can browse your sales figures for any period. Earned more than $50? Just hit withdraw and we will send you your money!

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you. Enjoy!
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)

Coupons are the great way to promote your videos!

1. You can issue coupon that have limited or unlimited amount of claims.
2. You bind this coupon for certain video purchasing options.
3. Claiming coupon code will be automatically added as one of payment methods for this options! Claimers will get video (or channel) for free!

TIP: You can offer limited coupons for particular videos and keep option for purchasing the whole channel. Great for promoting your content! Don't forget to use social streams to spread your offer!
Example - get this video for free with coupon code free4friends:

 

About Videolla.com:

Videolla.com is the most complete no-ads monetization platform for your video content. Its great all-in-one tool tool for encoding, hosting, publishing, streaming, renting, selling, tracking your premium video content. We do it all for you.
Simple. Open. Distributed.
Free signup (with promo discount)