Is anyone making money on Yourvids?

TLDR

I spent some time digging into Yourvids because creators keep asking me if it's worth adding as a ManyVids alternative. The answer is more "maybe, as a side bet" than "yes, drop everything." Here's what I actually found.

Is anyone making money on Yourvids?

The short, honest answer: some people are, but it's not a firehose of income. Yourvids has been floating around for a while now, and the creator chatter about it comes in waves. When it first got noticed, people were excited because - as one creator put it - they don't have "the typical fee that takes half of your money." That's the main draw: a revenue split that's friendlier than what you get on the big established clip stores.

But a better split only matters if sales actually happen. From what I've seen, the site's traffic is modest. There are creators earning there, mostly people who already have an audience elsewhere and funnel their fans over. If you upload clips and wait for organic discovery, you'll probably be disappointed. The store functions, payouts happen, nobody's reporting horror stories about vanishing money - but the buyer base is small compared to the giants.

If your main reason for jumping in is escaping that brutal cut, that's a fair instinct. Just know you're trading a big cut of a big pie for a small cut of a small pie unless you bring your own buyers.

Should it replace ManyVids, or just sit alongside it?

Here's where I land: treat Yourvids as an extra shelf, not a replacement. Diversifying away from a single platform is smart - nobody should have all their clips locked in one store that could change rules or payouts overnight. But the math still favors keeping your anchor store, because that's where the browsers are.

The realistic playbook is to upload to both, keep your pricing consistent, and direct your social media followers toward whichever store gives you the better net earnings per sale. Your existing fans will follow you anywhere; random clip buyers won't. So Yourvids works best when you use it as a cheaper checkout for the people you already have influence over.

And since live income matters too - if part of your revenue comes from camming or you want a more interactive income stream alongside clips, xlovecam is honestly the stronger bet I'd point you toward right now. The traffic, the earning ceiling, and the tools are just in a different league, and it pairs nicely with clip income instead of competing with it.

So, is Yourvids worth the upload time?

If you've got clips sitting ready and five minutes to spare, add Yourvids. It costs you nothing but time, the split is kind, and every sale is pure upside. Just don't build your whole plan around it. The real money question isn't "which store has the best split" - it's "where can I convert the most buyers, live and on demand?" What would it take for a smaller store to actually become your main income, and are you better off putting that energy into live shows instead?