Xvideos doesn't allow watermarks on the videos you upload...
 

:warningWe stopped uploading to Xvideos a while ago. Many other paysites and producers have also stopped uploading their content to Xvideos. I am in contact with more and more studios, indie creators, and producers each day who stopped uploading there and to other tube sites.

Xvideos will not allow you to put logo watermarks on the videos you upload. They will delete the video and remove the content or not approve it at all. They told us we cannot upload videos with watermarks that have our domain extension ".com" in the watermark. This is a blatant attempt to prevent users from typing in our domain name and visiting our site directly. Yet, they want our content so they can benefit from it.

But this is what we consider to be a proper watermark.

It's time to start calling out these companies more.

Let's keep this topic alive and keep putting our thumb on these tubes that are profiting off indie creator and studio content every day, but make it very difficult for you to get traffic in return and paying you pennies on the dollar via their sub-par "Premium" content programs.

The name of the tube game is: give us clips and content so we can sell our premium tube memberships and make money from your content... but we are going to try and prevent you from getting any clicks to your site.

They want to keep their surfers on their tube site, not send them to your site.

I have been saying this for years. Seems people are starting to listen.

Good point. The whole purpose to use tubes was to promote and gain traffic to your site now that isn't even happening. I feel sorry for those who embed leader 3 seconds as to who they are to only ask it to be removed.

Now it's easier to scrap videos and just put up a 2257 page to be barely checked these days. Content creators are screwed no matter what they do.

For sure. Thanks for your support. But I do disagree that content producers and creators are screwed. I think there is hope now if we continue to seize these opportunities, keep talking, and take massive action.

We hear ya!

Are u talking about random users, or verified brands?
Cause as far as I can see there is no problem with watermarks and official brands are have a HUGE banner over their profile to link to their site.

I know that watermarks are not allowed on videos by random users - cause they get overflooded with stolen content where people just put their affiliate link as watermark. But for official creators I can't see a single point u say actually be true thb.

I don't want def xvideos - I don't care. I just looked up and wonder what exactly u mean.

while your film isn´t allowed watermark, you can add your content to a channel, so your banner remains below the video & I think watermark to your channel at xvideos is allowed, this, I don´t know, but mine with these watermarks seem ok...

First, this is concerning watermarks in the video content itself. Yeah, this is a new policy they started implementing just a few weeks ago, or maybe 8 weeks ago. So any videos you see that have watermarks in the video itself without a domain extension in them is because they were already there before this new rule took effect.

Can you send example URL of the video which has a huge banner over it? You may be talking about the "Channel" page which is different than the single video pages which get a lot more traffic.

Yeah OP, please clarify.

I haven't had this issue (yet) with them.

Anyone who put a watermark in before these new rules is ok, new content won't be approved that has a domain extension in the watermark. This is them blatantly trying to prevent users from typing-in your domain name from the video. Yet they want you to upload your videos so THEY can benefit from them.

Channels get nowhere near the traffic that single video pages get.

They told us we cannot upload videos with watermarks that have our domain extension ".com" in the watermark. This is a blatant attempt to prevent users from typing in our domain name and visiting our site directly. Yet, they want our content so they can benefit from it.

But this is what we consider to be a proper watermark.

https://i.ibb.co/HF3CxDP/fsdfsf.png

https://www.xvideos.com/channels/mydirtyhobby

Just for example. Videos are hours, days, weeks, old - everything looks fine. Even .com watermark (they have 3 watermarks in a video xD).

xvideos pays me , but 20% from before and yes I am adding models succesfully but very slow

then I guess it is even worse than we thought, they are playing favorites with certain content providers.

Follow the money, MyDirrtyHobby is owned by MINDGEEK.

Here is our convo with Xvideos support. You can see where they tell us we can't have ".com" in our watermark... I also updated it to ask them why this content provider can have a .com in their watermark...

https://i.ibb.co/c3rcs4T/Screenshot-...1-05-43-AM.png

Does your logo have the name of your site with the .com on it? I’d add that. Seems they’ll allow that but not just a yoursite.com

Yes, you can see in the screenshot there that I told them the ".com" is part of our logo and is also on our site itself.

This is a case of favoring certain studios over others and has been going on for years.

Well, I understand ur mood in this case.
It can be the support that have no clue or intern communication troubles - or your right and they threat producers different (which would be more worse than the initial problem imo).

I’m going to upload possibly tonight or tomorrow. I will report back.

Of course, it is the case yes. Because right there you can see they said this to us and treated MDH differently. It is not a mistake we've had dozens and dozens of videos sidelined that we've tried to upload and they are rejected because of that alone.

We will update this with any response we get from XV.

when a video is shown, if you click the ad displayed when uploading your video, you´ll have your banner at the bottom of the video...

when someone watches your video, you´ll receive your earnings...

while saying this, I agree, faphouse, xhamster and pornhub allow site urls on the videos, this is annoying.

I´m just saying the money made on video views for me, works fine :2 cents:


oh and just fyi, all the videos in the past, they´re also being taken down when you have your url on the video...

I´ve had about 10 videos so far, placed into edit & need to upload a new video without logo, url or watermark :(

Oh wow! They are shooting themselves in the foot!

Webmasters/directors/program owners need to organize

I think I had over 10 billion views there and I was one of the first to have my channel removed by own choice. It was still beer money with all of them views

it's simple, stop using xvideos and make your channels on other tube sites, you can still upload your videos to many tube sites.

Here's the update...

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[Xvideos] Support, 4 hours ago

Hello,
we are sorry for this misunderstanding, for now, your watermark is fine with.com
But once your account is linked with Sheer, watermarked videos should be anyway replaced, because on Sheer it will not be possible even to release such videoswe recommend making an account on the Sheer.com platform, which Xvideos is now integrating with, and soon it won't be possible to use Xvideos without Sheer.
Register on Sheer.com, verify yourself there and once you are verified, contact Sheer support and ask about linking the account with your Xvideos channel.
You will be able to manage multiple sites from their dashboard and grow using XVideos traffic.

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What a joke, now all of a sudden they will allow us to use ".com" in the watermark because we called them out.

All everyone has to do is band together like the dozens of other creators and studios I've talked to who have stopped uploading there, and just STOP UPLOADING CONTENT THERE.

You are not going to lose sales, trust me. We are doing better than we ever have before since stopping uploading there 2 months ago.

this is the big secret the TUBES don't want YOU to know. They want you to thin kif you stop uploading you will lose sales. But it's not true.


People are smarter than you tink and they WILL find your content through other means.

Every time you upload content to a tube you give them another page for their search engine presence.

Yeah, one year ago they wanted us to move all our XV Premium videos under Sheer - where they don't allow URLs in watermarks. Only an idiot would upload his own content anywhere without watermarking it with his domain name.

Ive stopped uploading

Nice! I'm going to update tonight let's see what they say.

I use watermarks, you cant use social media watermarks

I uploaded my watermarked video with no problems. My watermark is my logo which has the name of the site with a .com on the bottom.

Yeah, they always get uploaded ok but often, they'll get flagged shortly afterwards and the message they give will be random,vague and usually not correct... if support ever get back to you.
I'm another whos stopped uploading there - strength in numbers.

The support team created a new discussion named Discussion about an infraction : New infraction concerning your video South African Lady Showing off.

Message from support on September 26, 2023 at 3:09 PM

You are promoting domain in your video. Third-party links are no longer allowed on the site. You can only promote our products, your own products (not using 3rd parties), Manyvids, and Sheer.com on Xvideos



This is the response l got from xvideos after l opened a ticket about my watermarked video

sheer so far is nice with me, yes for the .com watermarks

Does anyone know how I can contact XVideos? I can't find an email address.

I have a channel there:

https://www.xvideos.com/channels/dow...ing#_tabVideos

It originally belonged to an affiliate of mine and I made the mistake of letting him put Downblouse Beauty on the videos. Originally if you went to the Downblouse Beauty address it would redirect to Downblouse Loving. But it doesn't anymore. He's no longer an affiliate of mine. I managed to secure the account for myself and have added some videos with just Downblouse Loving on like this:

https://www.xvideos.com/video7014664...lst_fully_nude

I want to get all the videos that have Downblouse Beauty on them taken down. It seems you can only delete 3 videos a month.

yeah I see they are doing the same thing to you.

UPDATE: Xvideos response to our above-posted question as to why MyDirtyHobby (and others) are allowed to have ".com" in watermark but not use and most other studios and creators...

https://i.ibb.co/rk1T82J/Screenshot-...42-Gmail-2.jpg

So it seems now magically we can. Oops! "Sorry for this misunderstanding," they say. So now they've added an insult on top of it. I guess they assume we are all morons :)

After we've filed a complaint and have talked about it on industry comm channels.
What still remains is their favoritism and unfair practices.

...and soon you will not be able to use Xvideos without Sheer. So it seems they will be forcing people to use Sheer if they also want to use Xvideos.

Fight the good fight, D_Ghost . . .

I agree.. I stopped uploading to xvideos 1 month ago. Lets see how this goes.

What a pain in the dick they are. I uploaded all the proper docs now they're giving me infractions because they claim the stage names "aren't right."

I don't feel comfortable uploading all this sensitive info and with them making it so difficult it's not worth it.

I'm out.

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