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for small direct buyers id price it flat per week/month instead of CPM, they find it easier to say yes to. and always take payment upfront, chasing advertisers after the week is over is a pain

at 100TB with your own player id honestly look at a storage dedi + CDN in front instead of a file host, hosts that give API direct links tend to throttle or change terms once you get big. whats your daily bandwidth roughly?

how do you deal with the discrepancy part? every network counts impressions differently so comparing them 1:1 is where most people get fooled

usually its live in a few hours, 24-48h max. after 72h id open a ticket. an open ended hold like that .nz draft would make me pick another tld for anything time sensitive

expiry + DNS change alerts at minimum, losing a domain because the card on file expired is way more common than people think. cert monitoring on parked ones never thought about it tbh

what did you read about namecheap? for an anon .com the usual answer is njalla, they register it in their name and take crypto. just keep in mind technically they own the domain, not you

GeneratePress or Astra free + a simple embed block works fine, both are light and mobile friendly. what kind of video site tho, tube style or movies/series? changes a lot what you need

free + automatic + no API is kinda impossible, every auto translation hits some api in the background. closest is GTranslate free, it uses google translate client side so no key needed, but its a switcher widget by default. auto redirect by browser language is on their paid plans iirc

welcome! curious what you see people get wrong most with backups, no offsite copy or just never testing a restore?

banner only is gonna be rough unless the traffic is tier1, thats just how it is rn. what geos are you getting? if its mostly tier3 id test one native/in-content unit before giving up, those usually beat sidebar banners on CTR

Clean layout. I’d put a search bar with autocomplete at the top before touching the footer. On movie sites most visitors arrive looking for one specific title, and if they can’t find it in 5 seconds they leave.

Different audiences, and you can see it in how they pay. Companion users pay for memory and continuity, so a subscription fits them. Roleplay users burn through characters and scenes, so credits or tokens work better. Pick the wrong model and good retention still won’t turn into revenue.

Card payments with zero merchant KYC don’t really exist long-term. The card networks require someone to know who the merchant is. The ones that advertise it are usually reselling someone else’s merchant account, and they freeze funds once chargebacks show up. If you want to avoid KYC, accept...

With low traffic and no-deletion as a hard requirement, I’d skip the pay-per-view hosts entirely. They all purge inactive files sooner or later. A storage VPS or object storage with a simple player you control costs less at 5 TB and nobody can delete your library.

jimp nailed it, it’s the pop format, not the network. Every pop network rotates through the same pool of redirect advertisers. If AV alerts are killing your returning visitors, the lost traffic costs you more than the pop CPM pays.

The cluster approach is right. One thing I’d add: long-tail pages with question keywords (“how to”, “can I”) convert badly on banners but well on a single contextual CTA placed right where the answer is. Fewer ad slots, higher RPM.

Cache helps, but on a site with 100k+ titles the bigger win is usually the homepage itself. Kill the particle background, lazy-load posters and serve them as WebP from a CDN. That alone will do more for mobile users than any caching plugin.