General Questions
Advertising / Buying Views
Watching Videos
- What is my personal video channel?
- How do I improve my channel and get better recommendations?
- How do I edit my personal video channel?
- What do my votes mean?
- How do I report adult or innapropriate videos?
- Can I skip videos I don't like?
- How do I see my viewing history?
- Do you ever show me the same video more than once?
- How long must I watch each video?
- Do I have to watch ads?
Posting Videos
Getting Paid
Referrals & Sharing Videos
Video Statistics
Video Views
General Questions
Top- Get paid to post videos
- Get free, guaranteed views by views exchange
- Buy Video Advertising
Advertising / Buying Views
TopYour video is only seen when someone clicks on your video link, so you can create highly targeted views by editing the keywords you place in your video's hyperlink text. However, strict targeting can lead to lower clickthru rates. With a low clickthru rate you will have to pay more per click to get the same number of views, but you should still see better ROI results due to the better targeting.
Views are paid in advance. The minimum deposit is $15.00.
We never force our users to watch any video or advertisement. If a person does not like your ad, they may choose to quickly move onto another video. If the viewer does not meet the time requirement on the first ad, then the only other video options available to them will be other ads.
If your statistical reports indicate that a high proportion of viewers are skipping your ad in favor of other ads, that is a good indicator that your ad is not well received.
- Cost-per-click - For advertisers, the more you pay per click the more views you will receive
- Clickthru rate - depending on the hyperlink text you create, you can control whether you receive a high or low clickthru rate. Given the same CPC, and ranking, a higher clickthru rate ad will receive more views.
- Ranking - Whenever possible we show ads people like before we show ads viewers do not like as much.
- Daily Maximum - If your daily maximum cost is below the total views available, you will not receive views in excess of your specified limit
- Targeting - The more targeting keywords you associate with your video, the more views you will receive. We always show ads that match a users profile before we show random ads.
If you want more control, you can put additional keywords in your video hyperlink. For example, instead of just using "My Video" as your video title/hyperlink you could include a target such at "Attention WOMEN: My video." Since you only get views when a real person clicks your video hyperlink, your control over the hyperlink text lets you fine tune targeting however you like.
Watching Videos
TopYour channel is created in part by your ranking videos as "Love it" or "hate it." However we also consider many other aspects of how you interact with individual videos.
For example, if you often rate "Michael Jackson" videos as "love it" then whenever a new Michael Jackson video is submitted to meScreen.com it is likely to be added to the video recommendations on your channel.
Use the "hate it" icon sparingly. For example, if you often select "love it" for "County Music" videos, then you are likely to see all different types of country music artists. However, if there is one particular "country" artist you do not want to see, select "hate it" when that particular country video appears.
If you are new to meScreen.com or your recommendations aren't ideal, start by selecting specific categories you know you'll like, then watching and rating videos in those categories. Your recommendations will start to improve.
Select "Hate it" to see fewer simlar videos recommended
You are not required to leave feeback or vote.
Sometimes the same video may be submitted twice by the same person, twice by different people, or multiple times from different video sharing hosts. We treat any such separate submissions as different videos as each will likely be indexed under different targeting categories.
There is a minimum ad viewing requirement. If you don't view enough ads, you will have to view additional ads before you can move onto non-ad videos. But again, you can always move onto another video and are not forced to watch andy single video or ad.
However, we do require that a certain proportion of your time is spent watching ads. Any time your viewing does not include enough time watching ads, all 6 choices for your next video will be ads. So yes, you have to watch ads, but you get to choose which ones.
Posting Videos
Top- AOL Video
- Atom.com
- Blip.tv
- DailyMotion
- Google Video
- Hulu
- Metacafe
- MySpace Video
- Revver
- Spike/iFilm
- Yahoo Video
- YouTube
- Vimeo
The only penalty for having many videos is that it usually leads to poorer maintenance. If you have many videos make sure to keep track of each individual video and consider removing videos that are not performing well.
If you wish to submit a different video, you must submit it to one of these services. To get links to your own web site, most of these services allow you to include links on the description page. Also, we recommend you include information about your web site in the video content itself.
You may also submit videos from the video sharing community to which others hold copyright. You can earn payment credits or receive views as long as there is no copyright dispute. If the video is removed by the hosting site for a copyright violation, it's ranking on will also drop to zero. Also if any copyright holder reports infringement, we may remove the disputed video from your account or block the video from receiving additional views.
Getting Paid
Top- Post a video
- Buy or exchange views until you have a satisfactory ranking
- Activate payments and receive payment credits for each time someone views your video
- Every day you qualify, you get real cash multiplied by your total payment credit balance.
Since you never lose payment credits* and your payout can increase every day, it is very possible to earn a part or full time income.
To qualify you must watch at least 5 minutes of video. That viewing must include at least a portion of 6 videos. Qualification is simple and easy. The amount you are paid is based on how many payment credits you have, not how many videos you watch. meScreen.com is not a "Get paid to watch videos" site. We pay for contributions to our site, not watching videos on our site.
There are several ways to earn payment credits:
- Posting videos - You get credit for each qualified view when a person clicks on one of the videos you submitted to meScreen.com. The payout is a moving average based on the actual earnings from advertisements watched that day.
- Referring others - You get a 10% commission on any credits earned by someone you refer to meScreen.com You can refer others directly or by sharing videos in social networking, bookmarking, or online communities.
- Free credits - At our discretion we may give free credits to individuals, or offer opportunties to win credits
- Purchase - For information on purchasing credits directly click here for details.
Because credit values can vary significantly from day to day, we have arranged for additional controls designed to stabilize credit value. We guarantee, that regardless of our company profit, in a single day the value of a payment credit will not rise or fall by more than 3.5%, or 0.002¢, whichever is greater.
There is no specific minimum, however, requests must be in whole dollars and we deduct all paypal fees from your cash request. The current fees are 3.5% up to $1.00. We set the minimum fee at $0.10.
It will take several days before you start to earn cash. Earning cash requires taking the time to find, submit and index great videos. The better videos you find and the more categories you setup in targeting, the more payment credits you will earn.
To learn about other ways to earn credits click here
After you earn credits you have cash added to your account every day that you qualify.
For the most complete explanation of the process link to our How-it-works page.
While the number of payment credits in your account can continually increase, we cannot guarantee an increase in actual dollars. The dollar value of each payment credit varies every day based on factors that are difficult to predict. Assuming the value of each credit stays the same or increases, your daily payout also increases every day. Only in the case where the credit value decreases can the daily payout decrease. Usually, over periods of several months, credit value increases tend to offset credit value decreases and a daily increase can be realized.
For the most complete explanation of the process link to our How-it-works page.
For the most complete explanation of the process link to our How-it-works page.
Referrals & Sharing Videos
TopYou earn a 10% commission on all credits earned by all your personal referrals. You also get a credit bonus anytime they make a purchase. Also, referral commissions are earned on infinite generations. This means that whenever your referrals refer others, you also get 10% credit on the first generation, 1% on the second, 0.1% percent on the third, and so on to infinite generations.
Usually you will not earn much from referrals below the 3rd generation, however, a large advertising purchase many generations away could earn credits for you. Click here for referral details
Anyone who follows the link in your posts and arrives at meScreen.com will see the video, but they'll also be credied as your referral when they join and earn credits of their own. You'll then get a 10% commission on their earned credits, just like all other referrals.
Video Statistics
TopAn exposure does not mean someone watched the video, only that we offered it to them by giving them a link to your video. Exposures are most meaningful when compared to "views" or "clickthru rate."
To interpret views, also look at the length of the view (number of seconds on video page) , and viewer votes.
There are 2 different subcategories of "views" that may be reported: Total views or Qualified views. Qualified views refer only to views eligible to earn payment.
- Views generated from "share this video" links
- Views from search engines, or linked from search results
- Views generated by robots or cheaters
- Views generated from someone that does not watch advertised videos
The click counter shows how many of your views also clicked this web site link. The counter does not count clicks that arrive from the video site itself or the flash video itself. meScreen.com counts clicks only when a viewer clicks the actual promo link we provide. The majority of links should come from the video page itself on your host. The link we provide is just an additional link. Duplicate clicks are ignored so that only one click can be counted per view of your video.
We only count "qualified" views which means your actual clickthru rate is high. We report only clicks that are "qualified" to earn payment credits. When all is considered, any clickthru rate over 5% is high. If you want highly targeted views, you may actually want a lower clickthru rate. By creating a highly targeted video hyperlink, you can reduce your clickthru rate, so that only highly targeted leads view your video.
A high clickthru rate may be desireable if your video appeals to a general audience. A lower clickthru rate may be desireable if your have a niche audience.
Clickthru rate does not affect your ranking. Given 2 videos with the same ranking, the one with the higher clickthru rate would receive more views. Also, be aware that intentionally editing your hyperlink to encourage more views may increase your clickthru rate, but if many uninterested people watch your video it may lower your ranking and actually reduce your total views.
Clickthru rate is provided primarily for informational purposes. By comparing the clickthru rate on different keywords you can see which keywords are more highly targetd. Accurate targeting is more beneficial that a high clickthru rate.
We calculate a different ranking on each keyword phrase in your targeting. The higher your ranking in any given keyword, the sooner your video wil be shown to someone who has that keyword in the person video channel. Typically you will have a higher ranking in highly targeted keywords, and a lower ranking in broad keywords.
Also remember that all videos start with a zero ranking. So your ranking may keep rising until you have at least 30 views. Given the same clickthru rate, videos with higher ranking get more views. To get the most views, you want the highest ranking and the highest clickthru rate, however this is very difficult. You're better off trying to improve ranking first, then clickthru rate.
The best way to improve your ranking is to find new keyword phrases and categories that draw additional views. For example, you may have indexed your video under "Funny People." but you will likely get more views and a better ranking if you also try "Comedians," "Clean Comedians," "Women Comedians" and many other more detailed cateogory targets. You can track which targets yield the most views and the highest ranking.
For more details on improving your targeting click here for our targeting tutorial
Depending on your host any of the following can lead to understated views counts:
- Host may require a minimum viewing time to count a view
- Host may only update count hourly or daily, not instantly
- Host may not count views unless viewer clicks the play button
- Host video may not load even though we directed the browser to load it
- Viewer browsers may block views due to javascript disabled
- Viewer may set browser to not load videos even though we send redirect information
- Viewers may have add-ons installed on their computer that interfere
- Viewers browser or host may be incompatible with meScreen.com
Video Views
Top- Video Payments - If you "activate payments" we show your video based on your targeting and rank. High ranking videos get shown first. No number of views is guaranteed, but you will receive "payment credits" each time someone watches the video
- Video Exchange - If you "activate exchange views" you earn one guaranteed view of your video for each 60 seconds you wath others' videos. (after daily qualifying)
- Video Advertising - If you "activate ad delivery" you pay for guaranteed views. You set the cost. The higher your cost-per-view, the more often your video is shown.
- Video Payments - Views depend on your ranking. Highly ranked videos in each cateogry receive the most views. No views are guaranteed.
- Video Exchange - Your views are limited only by your time. You earn 1 view for 60 seconds of watching videos (after daily qualification).
- Video Advertising - The more you pay per view, the more views you get, however, if you choose narrowly targeted keywords, views may be limited. Views are also limited by your max daily spending setting.
Whenever possible we offer videos that best match a user's personal channel. When a targeted video cannot be found, we will offer videos at random.
To get guaranteed views and establish a ranking you can:
- Buy views - Click here for advertising information
- Exchange views - Exchanging views allows you to earn views for free by watching others' videos. Every time you watch 60 seconds of others' videos (up to 50 seconds per video), you get one guaranteed view to your own video.