Odysee alternative for hosting videos and earning from your site

People looking for an Odysee alternative usually want one of two things: another network where they’ll be discovered, or their videos on their own site without depending on another platform’s branding, player and rules.

If you’re after discovery within a community, Dembed isn’t built for that: it has no public catalog or recommendations. If you want control over where your videos are watched and to earn from your own audience’s views, it’s a good fit.

• A community network gives you a potential audience, but the player, recommendations and rules belong to the platform.
• Dembed doesn’t bring you viewers: you bring them. In return, the player carries your colour and logo, with no other channels’ videos alongside, and every monetized view adds to your balance, with payouts via PayPal or USDT from 25 USD.
• You can combine both: post on a network to be discovered and embed the videos from Dembed on your own site.

Before moving your library, compare these points on Odysee and any other option. They’re the ones that most affect your audience and your earnings:

• How much they pay and how it’s calculated: Dembed shares the real ad revenue of each month with you based on your audience’s country, with a per-country breakdown in your dashboard.
• When you start earning: on Dembed every video earns from day one, with no subscriber or watch-hour minimums.
• Payout methods and minimum: Dembed pays via PayPal, USDT (TRC20), Payoneer or bank transfer from 25 USD.
• Viewer experience: ads in the player, no recommendations from other channels; viewers who don’t want ads can go Premium (their ad-free plays don’t earn money for the creator).
• Max size and uploading: files up to 5 GB (50 GB with Premium) uploaded straight to storage, resumable, several at a time.
• Your brand: player color, logo or watermark with a link, subtitles and a “Skip intro” button.
• Clear rules: Dembed doesn’t allow copyright-infringing content and has a report button on every video, which protects honest creators and advertisers.

Tip: if your files are MKV, upload them as MP4 (H.264 + AAC) so they have sound in every browser. Our guide to converting MKV to MP4 explains how.

1. 1Create your free Dembed account and confirm your email.
2. 2Download your original files from Odysee (or use the copies on your computer).
3. 3Drag them into the Dembed dashboard: upload several at once and organize them in folders. Thumbnails and duration are generated automatically.
4. 4Customize the player once (color, logo, subtitles) and it applies to all your videos.
5. 5Replace the old links or iframes with Dembed’s on your site, blog or socials. From then on every monetized view adds to your balance.