Monetization changelog

Advertisements in Shorts

• Added A "Between Shorts" placement: an item of its own in the Shorts feed every few Shorts - a picture, a silent upright video, HTML or a Google unit, marked Sponsored, counted as shown and clicked through
• Added A pre-roll before the Shorts the feed marks, from the "Before the video" campaigns

HTML and Google AdSense, stand-ins for blocked advertisements

• Added A Google AdSense unit as a kind of campaign: the publisher ID once, the slot number and shape for each; Google's code in the head of every page; an ads.txt box
• Added HTML in the player: before, in, after and over the video, and a new placement while the video is paused
• Added A new placement at the top of every page; "Inside the video grid" now shows between the videos
• Added A campaign that comes from a network names one of the site's own to stand in for it when a content blocker stops it or the network has nothing to show
• Improved The site's own advertisements are drawn in boxes whose names say nothing and change each day, with files and links that do not say "ad" - tried against EasyList, AdGuard and uBlock filters
• Added An optional, polite line asking visitors with a content blocker to allow the site
• Improved Every placement of a page is picked from one query

Mid-roll advertising

• Added A new placement, "In the middle of the video (mid-roll)", played at the Player plugin's ad breaks; up to three take turns through a long video
• Changed "Promote" in the Studio is the site's own video promotion now; advertising campaigns keep their Advertise page

Per-video monetization and the migration

• Added A video its channel switched off shows no advertising and earns nothing
• Added "Promote" in the Studio leads to a campaign for that video
• Added PlayTube campaigns, video ads and ad codes come across as a migration step

Member advertising

• Added Members buy advertising from their wallet
• Fixed Money page details

The first release

• Added Pre-roll, overlay, banner and VAST advertising with targeting
• Added Stripe and PayPal wallet top-ups, tips, gifts, super stickers
• Added Creator earnings, payouts and reports