MediaZilla's Rental feature gives filmmakers, documentary creators, and video professionals another way to earn revenue from their content.
Instead of requiring viewers to purchase a video for lifetime access, you can offer rentals for a limited viewing period. You decide how much to charge and how long renters have to watch your content.
Whether you're distributing an independent film, selling access to a documentary, or sharing educational videos, MediaZilla makes it easy to offer rentals directly through your presentations.
How to Enable Video Rentals
Follow these steps to set up rentals for your MediaZilla presentation.
Step 1: Access Your Presentation's Monetization Settings
Log in to your MediaZilla account.
From your dashboard, locate the presentation you want to offer for rent.
Click on the presentation to open its options.
Select Monetize to access the monetization settings.
Step 2: Find the Pricing Section
In the Monetize settings, locate the Pricing section.
Here, you'll find options to select your currency and set prices for purchasing or renting your presentation.
This is where you can configure purchase and rental pricing for your presentation.
Step 3: Set Your Rental Price
Under the Pricing section, you'll find the following options:
Currency: Select the currency for your presentation.
Buy: Enter the price viewers will pay to purchase your content.
Rent: Enable rentals and set the rental price.
To activate rentals:
Locate the Rent option underneath Buy.
Check the box next to Rent.
Enter the amount you want to charge viewers to rent your presentation.
Good to know: MediaZilla charges 0% commission on rentals, so MediaZilla does not take a percentage of your rental sales.
Step 4: Configure the Rental Viewing Period
MediaZilla lets you control how long renters have to start and finish watching your content.
By default, renters have:
30 days to start watching after renting.
48 hours to finish watching once playback begins.
You can customize these settings to suit your content.
To change the rental period:
Find the rental viewing period settings underneath the rental price.
Click Change.
Adjust the available settings.
Days to Start Watching
This determines how many days renters have to begin watching their rented video.
For example, with the default setting of 30 days, viewers have up to 30 days after renting to start watching.
Hours to Finish Watching
This determines how long viewers can access the video after they first start watching.
You can select any options like:
24 hours
48 hours
72 hours
For example, if you select 48 hours, a viewer who starts watching on Friday at 7:00 PM will have until Sunday at 7:00 PM to finish watching.
After the viewing period expires, the rental access ends.
Step 5: Understand Download Restrictions
MediaZilla automatically prevents renters from downloading your videos. Renters cannot download rented content.
This helps you distribute your films and videos through time-limited viewing access instead of downloadable files.
Step 6: Save Your Changes
Once you've configured your rental price and viewing period:
Review your rental settings.
Click Save Changes.
Your rental settings are now saved for your presentation.