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Ways to earn with Unda ​

Unda does not charge your viewers itself: it has no payment page and inserts no ads. You earn by selling a service built on it. These are the ways customers use it today, with the parts of Unda each one relies on.

Streaming events for clients ​

Churches, weddings, funerals, graduations, conferences, concerts: many organisations want their event online and have no one to do it. A production team or a freelance streamer charges per event, or a monthly fee for a weekly service.

What Unda gives you to sell:

  • The client's own player page (/watch/<name>), to share or embed on their website, not only a Facebook or YouTube link (Watching and embedding).
  • Every platform at once: the same stream to YouTube, Facebook and others (Restreaming).
  • The recording, ready to hand over after the event (Recording).
  • A backup encoder, so the stream stays on air if the main one drops (Backup encoder), or a pull of the client's own link and a playlist of their videos behind it (Channel inputs).
  • Viewer figures to report back: how many watched, from where and for how long (Viewer sessions).

One server serves many clients: give each a channel with its own key (Accounts and channels).

Ticketed and pay-per-view events ​

Sell tickets to a concert, a match, a conference or a paid course, and let only buyers watch.

Unda provides the lock: with signed playback links, a stream plays only with a link you make. Each link has a deadline for starting to watch and a limit on how many devices can use it at once, so a link passed around stops being useful.

Your website provides the till: it takes the payment (Paystack, Flutterwave, Stripe or any other), then makes a link for that buyer and shows or emails it. Make links on your own website has the code, a few lines in PHP, Node.js or Python, for your web developer.

Your own internet TV channel ​

Run a channel that is on air all day: your programmes play to a schedule, live shows take over when they start, and the schedule picks up again when they end (24/7 channels). Viewers on mobile data get a quality their connection can carry (Adaptive bitrate).

The income comes from sponsors and advertisers (with their spots edited into your programmes), from paid subscriptions using signed links as above, or from carrying the channel on other platforms through restreaming. Unda does not insert ad breaks by itself.

Hosting streams for other organisations ​

Run one Unda server and rent streaming to smaller organisations (churches, schools, radio stations, community groups) for a monthly fee. They stream from their own OBS or vMix; you run the server.

  • An account for each client with the streamer role: they see their own channels and nothing else, in the dashboard or the API (Roles).
  • A channel limit per client, set when you invite them.
  • Usage per client for billing: the Sessions page adds up watch time, viewers and traffic per stream for the last day, week or month, and its History tab downloads every session as a CSV file (Viewer sessions).

Check your license first

Hosting streams for other organisations is not the same as running Unda for your own. Before you sell this, ask your vendor whether your license allows it and how many live streams it covers.

What Unda does not do ​

So that you can plan for it:

  • No payments. Tickets, subscriptions and invoices are handled by your own website or billing system.
  • No ad insertion of its own. Adverts are part of the programme you play. For an ad inserter at a head-end or TV operator, Unda can announce your ad breaks with SCTE 35 cues (Ad breaks).
  • No public catch-up library. Recordings are for your team in the dashboard; to publish them, download them and post them where your viewers watch.