Channels
Video channels
Turn a collection of videos into one browsable library with search, branded styling and optional subscriber collection. Embed a single channel on your existing site and keep it current as the underlying project grows.
Searchable
Templated
Subscribable
Publish where your audience already visits
Embed a complete video library on your own page
A channel is designed to sit inside a page you control. Add one embed to a product hub, training area, resource centre or members page, then manage the videos and presentation from DynTube instead of rebuilding the page whenever the library changes.
- Use the embed when the library should inherit the navigation, context and conversion path of your existing website.
- Use a private channel link when you need a fast viewer-facing destination without building a surrounding page.
- Use hosted-site capabilities when the requirement is a separate branded video destination rather than an embedded library.
This distinction keeps the setup simple: channels organise and present a library inside an existing experience, while hosted sites address the separate job of publishing a complete destination. Choose based on where viewers should arrive and what surrounds the video.
The mechanism
What a channel actually gives you
Described against the current channel and channel-template records rather than against the legacy marketing list.
- One embed for a whole libraryAny page you control
- Instead of placing a player per video and maintaining that page by hand, you embed the channel once. Adding a video to the channel updates what the embed shows. That is the reason to use one at all, and it is the part the legacy page undersold.
- Viewer-facing search and filteringTemplate setting
- A search bar can be shown or hidden per template, so a fifteen-video library can browse and a four-hundred-video one can be searched. On the management side, channels are searchable by name and by id, which is what makes a large account navigable at all.
- Templates that carry your stylingReusable
- A template holds font family, font size, text and link colours, background colour and background image, maximum width, full-width and theatre behaviour, and which elements appear — views, likes, dates, sharing, video preview. Templates are account-level, so a look is defined once and applied to several channels.
- Subscribe and email collectionAudience
- A subscribe button and a subscribe prompt with your own wording can be enabled on the template, and the collected subscriber list can be exported from the dashboard. If your goal is building an audience list rather than only publishing video, that is the piece that does it.
- HTML widgetsExtension point
- Custom HTML widgets can be defined at the account level and placed into channel sections — a route to comments, a signup form or anything else the template does not model natively. Whatever you place there is yours to build and maintain.
- Playback behaviour inside the libraryTemplate setting
- Autoplay of the next video, looping, randomised order, hiding the first video and loading more on scroll are each switchable, so a channel can behave like a course sequence, a showreel or a catalogue depending on what it is for.
The decision
A channel, or a hosted site?
This is the question the legacy page prevented people from asking, by promising that a channel was both. It is not, and picking wrong costs you a rebuild.
Without control
Use a channel
When the library belongs inside something you have already built.
- You have a site, and the video library is one section of it.
- You want one embed that stays current as you publish.
- Search, subscribe and styling inside that embed are enough.
- A private link to the library is an acceptable way to share it directly.
On your own terms
Use a hosted site
When the library is the destination and needs an address.
- It must live at your own domain, with your own pages around it.
- You need more than one page, with navigation between them.
- Access has to be gated at the page level as well as at playback.
- Custom domains sit on the top two plan tiers — confirm before planning around one.
Access
Time-limited and membership access
The legacy page led with expiring access, and it is a real capability worth keeping — with the boundary between the two mechanisms made explicit, because they fail differently.
- Membership accessSubscribers and plans
- Viewers can be authenticated as members with a plan that describes what they may watch, so access follows the membership rather than the link. When the membership lapses, the entitlement lapses with it.
- Access that expires on a datePer grant
- An access grant can be temporary or permanent, so a cohort, a client review or a rental window ends on a date without anyone remembering to end it. This is the mechanism the legacy page meant by "time-based access".
- Signed links that expire and exhaustPer request
- A playback link can carry an expiry and a maximum number of plays. That bounds a forwarded link, and it works independently of whether the viewer is a member.
- Domain-restricted playbackNot on the entry plan
- Playback can be restricted to origins you have listed, so an embed copied onto another site stops working. This is what makes an embedded channel meaningfully yours rather than merely published.
Questions
Channel questions
Can I host a channel on my own domain?
A channel is an embeddable library rather than a standalone website. Embed it on a page at your own domain so it shares your site navigation and surrounding experience. If you need a complete branded destination, review the separate hosted-site capabilities and plan availability.
How many channel layouts are there?
Channel presentation is controlled through template settings for width, background, typography, search, visible metadata, video preview and playback behaviour. Describe the arrangement you need and confirm the available configuration during your trial.
Can viewers search inside a channel?
Yes. A search bar is a template setting you can show or hide, alongside filtering. It is the setting that decides whether a large library is usable, so it is worth turning on before the library gets large rather than after.
Can I collect viewer email addresses?
Yes. A subscribe button and a subscribe prompt with your own wording can be enabled on the template, and the resulting subscriber list can be exported from the dashboard. What you then do with that list is your system's job, not the channel's.
Can access to a channel expire on a specific date?
Yes. Access grants can be temporary or permanent, so a cohort or a rental window closes on its date without a manual step. Separately, individual playback links can carry an expiry and a play limit, which is the right tool for a link you expect to be forwarded.
Do I need a paid plan for channels?
Channel customisation is plan-gated and is not on the free tier, so branding and template control require a paid plan. The restriction and access layers have their own tiers again. Confirm the specific ones your case needs rather than assuming a single upgrade covers all of them.
Start a project and see which shape fits
Create a project, publish a handful of videos to it, and open the channel page. Fifteen minutes tells you whether the library wants a channel of its own or an embed inside a page you already have — and that is much cheaper to answer now than after it is built.