Everything Tube Demo can do, explained — every admin tool and exactly what it changes on your live site. This is the same documentation operators get inside the product.
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Getting Started
Orientation for new operators — what the admin is, roles, and the daily workflow.
Getting Started · Guide
Welcome to your admin
What the admin panel is, how it relates to your public site, and how these docs are organized.
The admin panel is the control room for your site. Almost everything your visitors see — the videos in the catalog, the categories in the navigation, the look of the brand, the price of a premium membership — is set here. Your public site is the storefront; the admin is the back office.
How changes reach the public site
Most settings take effect immediately or within a minute, because pages are cached and then refreshed when you save. When a change is slower to appear (for example after a bulk import), the relevant doc will say so, and the Cache & purge page can force a refresh.
How these docs are organized
The docs mirror the admin sidebar exactly. Each group below corresponds to a section of the navigation, so if you can find something in the admin, you can find its documentation in the same place here. Pages that carry real risk — anything that deletes content or changes the whole site — are called out with a Caution banner.
The difference between admins and moderators, and what each can see and do.
There are two staff roles. Both can reach the admin, but they see different things and have different powers.
Administrator
Full access to every page in the admin — catalog, monetization, settings, branding, billing, and all moderation tools. Admins can change anything about the site.
Moderator
A reduced view focused on keeping the site clean: the moderation queues (review, scans, reports, comments) and the audit log. Moderators do not see monetization, settings, branding, or import tools, and admin-only pages reject them even by direct link.
Grant admin sparingly
An administrator can change pricing, branding, and billing, and can remove other staff. Give the moderator role to people who only need to handle reports and content review.
You change who is an admin or moderator on the Users page.
A practical routine: what to check each day and where the work piles up.
The sidebar surfaces a number badge next to any queue that has items waiting. Red badges are time-sensitive (reports, scans, takedowns); neutral badges are routine (draft videos, unverified channels). A healthy site has most badges at zero by the end of the day.
Start at the Dashboard
It summarizes catalog size, recent activity, and anything that needs attention.
Clear the red queues first
Reports, Scan queue, and DMCA takedowns are the ones with legal or trust consequences if ignored.
Work the Review queue
Approve or reject videos waiting to go live, then verify new channels.
Tidy comments
Check hidden/flagged comments and release or remove them.
Pinned shortcuts and the command palette
The most-used destinations sit in a Pinned row at the top of the sidebar. You can also press ⌘K (or Ctrl K) anywhere in the admin to jump to any page by name.
The reactive work: review, scans, reports, takedowns, comments, and users.
Moderation · Guide
Review queue
Uploads held back because they matched a flag-severity word rule. Approve to publish, reject to hide.
When an upload's title or description matches a word-blocklist rule set to flag (rather than block), the video is held as a draft and lands here instead of going live. Nothing in this queue is visible to the public yet — it is waiting for a human decision.
Each row shows the upload, its channel, and the rule it tripped.
What you can do
Approve
Publishes the video immediately. It leaves the queue and appears on the public site.
Reject Destructive
Hides the video. It stays in the system (so it isn't re-imported) but never appears publicly.
Why a video was flagged
Each row shows its reason — the rule that matched — so you can judge quickly without opening the video.
Open the row
Read the title, description, and the flag reason.
Decide
Approve if it's fine, reject if it violates your rules.
Move on
The badge in the sidebar counts down as the queue empties.
Abuse reports submitted by visitors against videos, comments, channels, or users. Triage in bulk.
Anything a visitor reports through the public Report dialog arrives here. Reports can target a video, a comment, a channel, or a user, and each row links straight to the thing being reported so you can see it in context.
Filter by status and multi-select rows for bulk triage.
The four statuses
Open
Brand-new reports that no one has looked at. This is what the red sidebar badge counts.
Reviewing
You've picked it up and are investigating. Use this to hand off between staff.
Resolved
You took action (hid the content, warned the user, etc.) and consider it handled.
Dismissed
The report was not valid — no action needed. The reported content is untouched.
Resolving a report doesn't remove the content
Statuses track your handling of the report. To actually hide a reported video or comment, open it via its link and act there.
Stay on the Open tab
It shows the work that hasn't been triaged.
Open the reported item
Use the row link to view the video, comment, or channel.
Act, then set status
Hide the content if needed, then mark the report Resolved or Dismissed. Select several rows to set status in bulk.
Copyright takedown notices from the public DMCA form. Actioning one hides the video and logs it.
Copyright holders file takedown notices through your public /dmca form, and they land here. These have legal weight — responding promptly is part of keeping your safe-harbor protection, so this queue should not sit untended.
Notices are grouped by status with live counts on each tab.
Notice statuses
New
Just filed, not yet handled. Counted by the red sidebar badge.
Reviewing
You're evaluating the claim.
Actioned Destructive
You accepted the notice. The targeted video is hidden and the decision is written to the audit log.
Rejected
You declined the notice (e.g. invalid or incomplete). The video stays up.
Withdrawn
The filer retracted the notice.
Actioning hides the video
Marking a notice Actioned immediately removes the targeted video from public view and records who did it and when. Keep the notice details for your records.
Everything is logged
Every disposition writes to the Audit log, which is your paper trail if a claim is ever disputed.
Review hidden and flagged comments; release good ones or remove the rest.
Comments that were auto-hidden (e.g. by a blocklist rule) or manually flagged collect here for a decision. The neutral sidebar badge counts hidden comments.
Release
Makes the comment visible again on its video.
Remove
Deletes the comment permanently.
Reduce the workload upstream
If the same words keep showing up, add them to the Word blocklist so they're caught automatically.
Your content and how it's organized: videos, playlists, promotion, categories, and tags.
Catalog · Guide
Videos
The master list of every video. Publish, hide, edit metadata, flag as premium, and view analytics.
This is the heart of your catalog — every video on the site, whether published, draft, or hidden. From here you open a video to edit everything the public sees: its title, description, thumbnail, category, tags, performers, and whether it's premium-only.
Filter and search the full catalog; the neutral sidebar badge counts drafts.
Video states
Published
Live and discoverable on the public site.
Draft
Saved but not public. New imports and uploads often start here. Counted by the sidebar badge.
Hidden
Removed from public view (e.g. after a report or takedown) but kept in the system.
Premium
A flag, not a state: premium videos only play for members. Set it in the video editor.
Editing a video
Open the video
Click a row to open its editor.
Edit what the public sees
Title, description, thumbnail, category, tags, and performers all flow straight to the public page.
Set visibility / premium
Publish it, hide it, or flag it premium.
Save
Changes go live and the affected pages refresh.
Per-video analytics and ad overrides
Each video has an analytics view, and player ads can be overridden per-video on top of your site-wide defaults (see Ad zones).
The creator/source containers that own videos. Verify new ones and manage their public pages.
Every video belongs to a channel — the creator or source it came from. Channels have their own public pages, and new ones often arrive unverified (especially from imports). The neutral sidebar badge counts channels awaiting verification.
New and imported channels start unverified until you confirm them.
Verified
Marks a channel as trusted/genuine. Verification is a signal you control; it can affect how prominently a channel is presented.
Edit
Change the channel name, slug, artwork, and description — all of which appear on its public page.
Review unverified channels
Work the badge down by checking newly created/imported channels.
Verify or edit
Confirm legitimate channels; fix names or artwork as needed.
The Spotlight cockpit — every lever for pushing one performer's visibility in one place, plus a live readout of whether it's working.
Promoteis the one screen for pushing a single performer's visibility across the whole site. If you manage talent, this is where you turn a model into a headliner — without hunting through five different admin pages to do it. Pick a performer, feature them, and stack the levers below; a live stats panel shows you whether the push is landing.
One cockpit per performer: feature toggle, the editorial knobs, per-video home-wall toggles, and a live stats readout.
The levers, strongest first
Feature on the home wall (per video)
The single strongest lever. Toggling a performer's video to featuredpins it to the top of the home page for everyone. Do this for their best 2–3 videos.
Add to the Featured creators rail
Featuring the performer puts them in the editorial Featured creators rail on the home page and adds a Featured badge to their profile.
Spotlight priority
Orders the featured rail. Higher numbers sit first, so your top promotion leads the row.
Promo line
A short tagline shown under the performer's name on their profile while featured.
Pinned hero video
Pins one of their videos to the very top of their own profile, regardless of sort.
Feature until (schedule)
Optionally set an end date. When it passes, the performer is automatically dropped from the rail and their profile badge, promo line, and pinned hero all clear — no need to remember to unfeature them. Leave it empty to feature indefinitely. Lapsed promotions stay listed on the overview, flagged so you can extend or clear them.
Promote a performer in four steps
Pick the performer
Search for them on the Promote overview and open their cockpit.
Feature them
Hit Feature — they join the home rail and get the profile badge immediately.
Feature their best videos
Toggle their top 2–3 videos onto the home wall, and optionally pin a hero video.
Add a promo line + priority
Write a one-line hook and bump their priority so they lead the rail.
Set an end date (optional)
For a timed campaign, set Feature until so the spotlight auto-expires. Then Save.
Watch the performance chart
Below the stat cards, the Promotion performancechart plots the performer's daily views over the last 28 days, with a vs. prior 28 dayschange so you can see whether featuring them actually moved the needle. If it reads zero, it'll tell you why — usually their videos aren't published yet. Re-check after a few days and adjust which videos are on the home wall.
Other ways to promote
Beyond the spotlight, you can also gate a performer's best content to Premium, run a house promo creative in an Ad zone, or link directly to their page from a custom nav link. The spotlight is the fastest, highest-impact start.
Multi-creator brands that group several channels under one identity.
A studio is a brand that spans multiple channels — useful for networks or production houses. Channels can be linked to a studio and given roles within it.
Deleting a studio unlinks, doesn't delete
Removing a studio unlinks its channels (they stay published) and clears member roles.
Define categories and curate where they appear: the pill rail, the drawer menu, or a custom link.
Categories are the primary way visitors browse your catalog, and this page controls both the categories themselves and exactly where they show up in the site navigation. Custom links (to any URL) live here too.
Decide which categories appear in the pill rail vs the drawer menu.
Where a category can appear
Pill rail
The horizontal row of quick filters near the top of the site. Best for your most important categories.
Drawer menu
The fuller navigation menu. Good for the long tail of categories that don't fit the rail.
Custom URL / hidden
A category can live behind a custom link or be left out of the nav entirely while still existing for filtering.
Custom links
Add arbitrary links (to any URL) into the navigation alongside categories.
Order and placement are curation
What you put in the pill rail vs the drawer is a strong signal of what your site is about. Keep the rail short and intentional.
Tags are lightweight, free-form labels attached to videos. Unlike categories they don't structure the main navigation — they power filtering and search so visitors can find related content.
Categories vs tags
Use a small set of categories for top-level browsing and many tags for fine-grained discovery.
The Curator command center and the AI suggestions inbox.
AI · Guide
AI command center
Let the assistant analyze your catalog and propose metadata clean-ups — you stay in control of what's applied.
The Curator is an optional AI assistant that reads your catalog and proposes improvements — tidying titles and descriptions, suggesting categories and performer attributes, and flagging gaps. It does the tedious metadata work so you don't have to.
Nothing the AI proposes goes live by itself
The Curator only ever suggests. Every proposal waits in the Suggestions inbox until you approve the specific fields you want. You are always the final editor.
Kick off an analysis pass and monitor what the assistant is working on.
What it can do
Analyze catalog
Scans videos for missing or low-quality metadata and queues suggestions.
Metadata clean-up
Proposes better titles, descriptions, categories, and tags.
Performer attributes
Suggests model/performer details to attach, reviewed separately in the inbox.
Requires a configured AI provider
The Curator is fully functional once an AI provider is configured for the install (add an XAI_API_KEY). Until then it shows a setup hint instead of the live console.
Review everything the AI has proposed but not applied, and approve field-by-field.
Every proposal the Curator makes — video metadata and performer attributes — collects here until you act on it. The sidebar badge counts pending suggestions.
Approve fields
Apply just the proposed changes you agree with; the rest are left untouched.
Dismiss
Reject a suggestion entirely. Nothing changes on the public site.
You don't have to take all of it
Approval is per-field, so you can accept a better description while ignoring a category you disagree with.
Pulling content in: the grabber, RedGifs, and Bunny sync.
Import · Guide
Universal grabber
Import videos from supported source sites by URL, one-off or on a schedule.
The grabber pulls videos into your catalog from supported source sites. Paste a URL — a single video or a page/channel listing — and it creates catalog entries for what it finds, including the channel and basic metadata.
Paste a source URL to start an import job.
How imports land
Paste a source URL
A single video or a listing page from a supported site.
Run the job
The grabber fetches what it can and creates catalog rows. Progress is shown on the job page.
Review the results
Imported videos typically arrive as drafts and their channels as unverified — review them before they reach the public site.
Imports don't auto-publish blindly
New imports generally start as drafts and unverified channels, and may pass through the review/scan queues. That's deliberate — it keeps unvetted content off your public site.
Recurring imports
To keep pulling from the same place automatically, save it as a source and give it a schedule (see Saved grabber sources).
Pull your Bunny Stream library and create draft rows for anything not yet in the catalog.
If videos exist in your Bunny Stream library but not in the catalog, this reconciles them — every Bunny video without a catalog row gets a draft created so nothing is stranded on the CDN.
Creates drafts, not live videos
Synced videos arrive as drafts for you to review and publish.
Everything that makes money: premium, ad zones, affiliate, and cams.
Monetization · Guide
Premium memberships
Sell a one-time, term-based membership that unlocks premium-flagged videos, paid in crypto.
Premium lets you sell access to a members-only tier of your catalog. You flag individual videos as premium (in the video editor), and members who buy a membership can watch them. Payment is a one-time, term-based purchase made in crypto via NOWPayments — there is no recurring billing.
Set the price and term; the members list shows who currently has access.
How it fits together
Price & term
What a membership costs and how long it lasts. Access is term-based — when the term ends, access lapses until renewed.
Premium video flag
Set per-video in the video editor. Only flagged videos are gated; everything else stays free.
Members list
Shows who currently holds an active membership.
Ad-free perk
Members can be served an ad-free experience — see Ad zones for exactly what that hides.
Crypto, one-time, no auto-renew
Because payment is crypto via NOWPayments and not a recurring subscription, members aren't charged automatically — they buy another term when the current one ends.
Set your price and term
Decide what access costs and for how long.
Flag premium videos
In the video editor, mark the videos that should be members-only.
Confirm the public premium page
Visitors see the offer and pay in crypto to unlock.
Run banner or HTML/JS ads in fixed slots, set site-wide player-ad defaults, and track impressions and clicks.
Ad zones are the fixed advertising slots on your site — the header banner, inline slots on the home/trending/search/channel pages, the area under the player, and the footer. Each slot can run a simple banner image with a click URL, or raw HTML/JS pasted from any ad network.
Each zone shows its status, creative, and 7-day / 30-day impression and click counts.
Two kinds of ads
Banner image + click URL
Upload an image and the link it should open. Simplest option, no third-party code.
Raw HTML / JS Destructive
Paste a snippet from an ad network. Powerful, but the code runs on your visitors' browsers — only paste code you trust.
Enabled, no creative
A zone can be enabled but empty. It shows a warning here and renders nothing on the site until you add a creative.
Rotation, scheduling & targeting
Every zone also has a Rotation creatives panel. Add two or more creatives there and the zone rotates them randomly by weight on every page view — weight 20 serves twice as often as weight 10. Each creative can carry its own schedule (start/end dates for campaigns that switch themselves on and off) and its own targeting (desktop-only, mobile-only, or a list of countries). When a zone has rotation creatives, the single creative above becomes a fallback that only serves when nothing in the pool is eligible — so you can keep a house ad there permanently.
Weight (1–100)
Relative serve share within the zone. The panel shows each creative's expected percentage next to its weight.
Schedule
Optional start and end datetimes, entered in your local timezone. Outside the window the creative simply stops serving — no manual toggling at 3am.
Device
All, desktop-only, or mobile-only. Useful when a network pays different rates per device.
Countries
Two-letter codes (US, DE, BR…). Requires a CDN that sends a country header — Cloudflare's cf-ipcountry works out of the box. Without one, country-targeted creatives are skipped entirely.
With two or more creatives in a zone, an A/B comparisontable appears showing each creative's serve share, impressions, clicks, and CTR against the zone average — run two banners at equal weight for a week, check the table, and shift weight to the winner. HTML creatives report impressions only (third-party scripts handle their own clicks), so compare images against images.
Player ad defaults
Rather than configuring ads on every single video, set them once here: VAST pre/mid/post-roll, pause/mouseover/overlay ads, and pop-unders. Every video inherits these defaults, and any video can override individual fields in its own editor. This is what makes player ads manageable at scale.
Members can be ad-free
If a visitor has the premium ad-free perk, all ad zones and player ads are suppressed for them — they see and load zero ad code.
Impression & click tracking
Each zone records how many times it was seen and clicked, summarized as 7-day and 30-day totals on its card, so you can tell which placements are actually earning.
Pasted ad code is powerful
Raw HTML/JS executes in your visitors' browsers. Use reputable networks, and if a zone misbehaves, disable it here to remove it from the site instantly.
Store tracking IDs and build ready-to-paste affiliate links for ad zones and creator pages.
Keep your affiliate tracking IDs in one place and generate links with those IDs baked in, ready to drop into ad zones or creator pages. You can add your own programs too.
Embed live cam streams from any network using a whitelabel iframe or widget with your affiliate ID.
Add a live-cams section by pasting a whitelabel iframe URL or a widget snippet that carries your own affiliate ID. You host no video and take no broadcast liability — the cam network pays you the affiliate revenue.
You host nothing
Cams are embedded from the network. Your site just displays them and earns the referral.
Outbound and on-site copy: pages, announcements, email, and microcopy.
Communications · Reference
Custom pages
Create and edit standalone content pages served at your own URLs.
Build standalone pages — about, policies, info, landing content — each served at its own URL. Edit the title, slug, and body; published pages appear on the public site immediately.
Site-wide banners shown above the content on every page, schedulable and dismissible.
Show a site-wide banner above the content area on every page — for maintenance notices, promotions, or news. Banners can be scheduled, themed by severity, and set so a visitor who dismisses one won't see it again.
Message & severity
The text and its visual tone (info/warning/etc.).
Schedule
When the banner starts and stops showing.
Dismiss-and-stay-dismissed
Once a visitor closes it, it stays closed for them.
Edit the wording of the transactional emails your site sends.
Customize the copy of the automated emails your site sends so they match your brand voice.
Keep key details intact
When editing, preserve any links and placeholders the template relies on so the emails still work.
Email must be configured first
These templates only send once you've pointed the app at an SMTP relay. See the Email delivery (SMTP) setup guide — and note that mainstream providers like Resend or SendGrid ban adult content.
Edit the small bits of on-site text — labels, prompts, and messages.
Tune the small, scattered pieces of text across the site — button labels, empty-state messages, prompts — without touching code. Useful for matching tone or wording to your audience.
Configuration, branding, integrations, audit, licensing, and updates.
Settings · Guide
Branding & site settings
Runtime controls for branding, SEO, analytics, social, contact, legal copy, feature flags, and maintenance.
This is the single most impactful settings page — it controls how your whole site looks and identifies itself. Anything you set here overrides the defaults baked into the deployment. Clearing a field reverts it to that default (shown as the placeholder).
Branding, SEO, analytics, social, legal, feature flags, and maintenance — all runtime-editable.
What you can control
Branding
Site name, logo, and colors — the identity visitors see everywhere.
SEO
Titles, descriptions, and metadata that affect how your site appears in search results and shared links.
Analytics
Connect your analytics so you can measure traffic.
Social & contact
The social links and contact details shown on the public site.
Legal copy
Editable legal text surfaced across the site.
Feature flags Destructive
Turn site-wide features on or off. These have broad reach — a flag can show or hide whole areas of the site.
Maintenance mode Destructive
Takes the public site offline behind a maintenance screen. Visitors cannot browse while it's on.
Maintenance mode hides the whole site
Turning on maintenance mode replaces your public site with a maintenance screen for everyone. Use it deliberately and remember to turn it back off.
Clear a field to revert it
Every field falls back to the deployment default when left empty — the placeholder shows what that default is. You don't have to remember the original value.
Not seeing a change?
Branding and copy are cached. If an edit isn't live yet, use Cache & purge to force a refresh.
The hub for infrastructure, integrations, and low-traffic configuration for this install.
The settings hub gathers the infrastructure and integration configuration for your install — the lower-traffic knobs you set up once and rarely revisit. It's the jumping-off point to the more specific configuration pages.
Day-to-day settings live elsewhere
The things you change often — look, copy, navigation — have their own dedicated pages (Branding, Microcopy, Categories). This hub is for plumbing.
Block or flag user-submitted text on comments and uploads with case-insensitive patterns.
Define patterns that are matched (case-insensitively) against user-submitted text on comments and uploads. This is your first line of automated moderation.
Block
Rejects the content outright — it never gets created.
Flag
Allows the content but holds it for a human: flagged uploads go to the Review queue; flagged comments are hidden for moderation.
A chronological record of staff actions — your paper trail for moderation and changes.
Every significant staff action — takedowns, role changes, and more — is recorded here with who did it and when. This is your accountability trail and is invaluable if a decision is ever questioned.
Visible to moderators too
Both admins and moderators can read the audit log, so the team shares the same record.
Your install's license status, activated domains, and recent verification activity.
Shows your license status for this install — whether it's active, which domains are activated, and recent verification activity with the license server.
One license, everything unlocked
There are no tiers. An active license unlocks every feature; tools like the AI Curator only need their own setup (e.g. an API key). This page is where you confirm your license is healthy.
