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Build a premium video content blog with VideoVIP wordpress theme

December 6, 2017

VideoVIP – Premium Video Content WordPress Theme – has just been released recently. It’s our third theme in the video-related category, beside VideoPro and TrueMag. It gives you another choice in building video site: simple to use, easy to setup, and complete package (ie. no extra plugins needed). The main idea of VideoVip is for selling Subscription: you have premium videos and users need to subscribe (pay per months or days) to view those content.

Subscrib to unlock

Why you need this theme when you can upload videos to YouTube or Vimeo and earn $$$ via ads? Well, first, you have full control of your site so you can upload any videos as you want. Second, YouTube and Vimeo do not give you solution to sell premium videos via subscription. Using VideoVIP on a WordPress site of your own, you have full control of your vdeos and setup payment as you want.

Here is how it works. You setup your payment gateway settings (only once when first install). You upload your premium videos and choose Lock to require subscription. Users who want to view Locked Videos need to subscribe to the payment plan. You can have both FREE and PREMIUM videos at the same time.

Easy to setup

VideoVIP supports YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted videos. In general, you should use self-hosted videos (ie. upload your own video file to server) for Premium content. No one wants to pay for videos which they can watch for free from YouTube and Vimeo, right? (or do they?) Anyway, a normal scenario would be: you add free videos (from YouTube, Vimeo or upload your own videos) to build content and generate traffic. After having visitors, add premium videos and turn on subscription. This will be easy in VideoVIP as the package includes a video importer which can import videos from existing YouTube or Vimeo channels.

Locked Video

However, if you already have visitors (such as from your own YouTube channel), you can add only VIP videos on your site. It will be your premium content channel besides your free channels on YouTube. For example, a singer who wants his fan to subscribe and view newest videos can use VideoVIP for sure. Fan will have access to latest videos before other ones.

One more interesting thing in this theme is that, it supports various video player including JW Player, FV FlowPlayer, BZ Player and Elite Player. They have their own advertising network. So if you don’t want to sell subscription, you can also turn on advertising mode. That’s quite flexible, isn’t it?

Payment history

In our imagination, VideoVip is suitable for personal blogging, video bloggers, video producers, and content creators. However, we believe that you have more use-cases to apply to VideoVip. Please share your idea or suggestion so we can improve the theme.

WordPress Tips

Steps to create your own Video Blog

April 3, 2017

What is a video blog?

Video blog is becoming more and more popular on the internet. In fact, almost authors of video blogs are making a living through them. If you think about a video community or a business idea on video, you should create your own video blog immediately.

A video blog is a website includes a collection of videos with the intention of getting a response from viewers. Creating a video blog is the easiest way to share your own your ideas and expertise with the world.

How to create your own video blog?

Creating a video blog is easy once you dive in and give it a try. It can also be a lot of fun.

Follow the 5 easy steps below to create a video blog, CactusThemes believes you can have your blog ready to go in less than 30 minutes.

STEP 1: Identify the purpose/ reason of your video site.

Video blogs can be created for various personal and professional purposes.

For example:

STEP 2: Find a domain name and hosting

You need two things to get the site online:

A domain name (the address people use to get to your site like name.com). Actually, you have to pay an annual fee to use that web address. If you stop paying, someone else can use the domain instead.

Hosting (a service connects your site to the internet). If you have your own hosting, your website will load quickly and won’t go down for hours at a time. It’s convenient for everyone visit your website.

The thing that you should concentrate is choosing a perfect domaine name. It might be difficult, especially considering to choose domains which is short, easy to type and represents your brand.

Here are our recommendation for domains and hosting

Namecheap: the website for domain registration. This website is amazing and has a great search feature which will suggest alternate domain names if the one you want is taken.
Cloudways: the website for hosting that requires a bit of technical know about how to get your cloud server configured correctly.
SiteGround: another website for hosting.

STEP 3: Install WordPress

Download wordpress here: DOWNLOAD

STEP 4: Choose a theme and customize

You can choose a free theme or premium theme depends on your purposes.

If you started your video blog for a business purpose. You need it to grow your offline business, attract clients for your services or build a platform towards the launch of your book. A premium theme is the perfect choice. It’s so much more professional than a free theme that makes you come off as serious and credible. We highly recommend you to choose a premium theme in A collection of themed marketplaces of Envato.

However, if you started your blog as an online diary to share your experiences as a hobby or a temporary project, you might need a free theme to save some money. There are thousands of free themes for you in the Themes Directory of WordPress.

As you want to start video blog, you should choose a video wordpress theme with full video features. And now, we suggest you VideoPro and True Mag which are powerful video wordpress themes.

The premium theme will go with online documentation and online support that help you very much on theme customization. Well not all helpful tutorials are videos after all. Besides, there are TONS of tips on the WP Explorer WordPress blog that are very helpful for you.

STEP 5: Post video and create a successful video blog

Prepare contents with some equipment: a camcorder and a computer with video editing software installed onto it. Popular video editing softwares are Final Cut Pro, iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker. For example:

Post your videos. Now you can post your prepared videos to your video site. You can also improve the visibility of your videos by adding amazing titles, tags and description.

To have a successful video blog. You need to continuously create and update your content. In fact, videos about a topic you love, keeping an up to date video blog should be a joy and not a chore. The last but not least, to gain audiences for your video blog, you need to let the world know its exist! Through search engine optimization and blog aggregation sites, you can promotion your video site.

CactusThemes Users

Video WordPress theme – VideoPro’s users of the month 3.2017

March 24, 2017

VideoPro – Video WordPress theme Show Case

Thank you guys who have trusted and followed our product VideoPro since it was released.

It’s so impressed and excited to see the way our customers used this magical wordpress theme. They all have artistic eyes to design these beautifull and unique sites based on VideoPro.

That’s the great motivation for us to make better and better products.

>>>> Checkout our premium video wordpress theme: VideoPro

1.PLANETA COVER

Planet Cover is the first social platform and online community that specializes in finding the new talents to facilitate collaboration of the artists and provides them training resources.

2. MOVIES4U.PRO

Movies4us is an online service provider: Watch Free Online Moves Without downloading Them , HD TV Series Free Watch Arrow, Watch The Flash Online, Watch Latest Movies Free Online HD

3. WOWTRENDING

Content on Wowtrending.com is streamed via video-sharing directly from Youtube or Vimeo or other third-party streaming services. Wowtrending does not host any materials or videos.
All materials, videos and content remain their respective owners copyright.

4. YOULIVESANSEVERO

Youlive is a useful forum to share content created by citizens.

It’s time we strong realize that the city of San Severo need a technical assistance of this type to convey information and alarms are going to get lost on the larger society.

5. VOICETUBE

6. FLICKBUZZ

FlickBuzz is an online platform showcasing the latest video content. Our focus is Movies, TV Shows and behind the scenes footage clips. We will be expanding into new categories as we grow. Most of our content is user submitted and all copyrighted material is owned and protected by their own copyrights.

7. SOULCENTRALTV

Soulcentraltv is the leading Global Music Video Hub, Soul, Hip Hop RnB, Rap, Latin, AfroBeats, Reggae, Soca ,Old Skool, New Opportunities for Artists and Professionals Worldwide.

8. AXTIONSHOT

Axtionshot is video-sharing website that will not tell you no! Your videos are protected and will not be threatened.

9. FISHI

Welcome to the Fishi website, where you will find a wide variety of funny videos, children’s content, rare documentation and much more.This site was developed and built while taking into consideration your need – surfers. Therefore, the design of the site is minimalist and clean in order to reduce the difficulty and time to search for the content you want to watch.

10. FACULTI

From Architecture to Medicine – Faculti quickly and accurately delivers research – based, trusted insights that help viewers improve their studies and further their careers.

11. WHEELIETIME

12. KOOPERATIVA

Our story is really the story of the people involved in Kooperativa 2.0, with different passions, with different experiences, with different views but with the same desire, to make things work together. We intend to contribute to building the world’s 2.0 a relaxed manner, playful but also very serious in terms of results delivered.

13.1STADTUBE

14. BALKANEZ

Balkanez gathers the best balkan music and delivers only the best music from the balkans and the eastern european country’s. Only The best balkan music for you.

>>>> Check out tons of features and customizable design of Video Pro – video wordpress theme.

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