Most video publishers are leaving reach — and revenue — on the table. If you're uploading to YouTube and maybe your own website, you're on two platforms out of dozens that would happily carry your content right now. The audiences are real, the ad revenue exists, and the barrier to entry is lower than you think.
Here are 10 platforms your video content should be on, what it takes to get there, and how video distribution through VideoNest removes most of the manual work.
1. MSN
MSN reaches over a billion users monthly across MSN.com, Bing, Windows Start, and Microsoft Edge — making it one of the largest news and video surfaces on the web. It's particularly powerful for news publishers, sports content, and general-interest video. MSN syndicates video through an MRSS feed, and VideoNest handles the entire submission and ongoing feed management automatically. MSN syndication puts your videos in front of an audience you can't reach through social media alone.
2. Roku
Roku has over 80 million active accounts and is the leading streaming platform in the US. Publishers can launch their own channel on Roku through its Direct Publisher program. The technical requirement is a spec-compliant MRSS feed — VideoNest generates this automatically. Once your channel is live, your videos run alongside major networks, and you earn ad revenue through Roku's monetization program.
3. Amazon Fire TV
Amazon Fire TV has more than 50 million active users and operates across Fire TV sticks, Fire tablets, and Amazon smart TVs. Like Roku, getting onto Fire TV requires an MRSS feed that meets Amazon's specifications. The potential reach is enormous — and your content can appear as a standalone channel discoverable through the Fire TV app store.
4. Apple TV
Apple TV reaches tens of millions of households through Apple TV devices and the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple's MRSs-based channel submission process is available to independent publishers through the Apple TV Channels program. Quality threshold matters here — Apple expects clean feeds with proper metadata — but if your content is polished, the reach is significant.
5. Samsung TV Plus
Samsung TV Plus is a free, ad-supported streaming service built into every Samsung smart TV — hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. Content partners distribute through MRSS feeds, and ad revenue flows back to publishers. Samsung TV Plus is one of the fastest-growing FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) platforms, with viewership climbing as cord-cutting accelerates.
6. Pluto TV
Pluto TV is owned by Paramount and has over 80 million registered users across more than 30 countries. It operates as a FAST channel platform, meaning publishers submit content via MRSS and earn ad revenue based on viewership. Pluto TV is particularly strong for niche content — sports, documentaries, news, and entertainment channels all perform well if the content is consistent and well-catalogued.
7. Tubi
Tubi is the largest free streaming service in the US by viewership hours, with over 75 million monthly active users. Owned by Fox Corporation, Tubi accepts content partnerships from publishers through an MRSS-based submission process. Tubi skews toward entertainment, film, and TV series-style content, but sports and documentary programming also performs. Revenue is ad-supported with publisher revenue sharing.
8. Yahoo
Yahoo Video reaches hundreds of millions of users monthly across Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, and the Yahoo homepage. Like MSN, it ingests video through MRSS syndication. VideoNest manages this feed automatically — once configured, new videos you upload appear on Yahoo without any additional steps on your end. Yahoo is especially strong for sports, finance, and news-adjacent content.
9. Podcast Directories (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
If your video content works as audio — interviews, commentary, explainer shows — you're sitting on an untapped podcast audience. VideoNest's podcast distribution converts your video catalog into a podcast feed and submits it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other directories. You don't re-record anything. Your existing video becomes a new format, reaching an audience that prefers audio.
10. Your Own Video Website
Every publisher should have a destination they fully own. A branded video website — with your own domain, your own layout, your own player — isn't just a vanity page. It's a first-party audience you can email, retarget, and monetize on your own terms. VideoNest's website builder creates a fully functional video site from your existing library, no development required. This is your owned channel — every subscriber here is yours, not YouTube's or Facebook's.
The One-Upload Problem
The obvious objection to a 10-platform strategy is operational: who has time to manage ten separate upload workflows, feeds, and approval processes? Nobody. That's the wrong frame.
With VideoNest, the workflow is: upload once, and the platform handles distribution to all 10 destinations automatically. Each platform gets a properly formatted MRSS feed. Metadata syncs. New uploads propagate everywhere without manual steps. Syndication revenue flows back into a single dashboard.
Law Nation Sports went from limited digital reach to 41 million new viewers in 90 days — by adding distribution platforms they were completely absent from before. The content didn't change. The distribution did.
The gap between publishers reaching two platforms and publishers reaching ten isn't effort — it's infrastructure. When the infrastructure is in place, every new piece of content you create automatically reaches your entire network.
Start with video distribution through VideoNest and get your content in front of the audiences that are already looking for it.