Sell straight off your video with a click-through to PayPal!

A great way of monetizing your media is to make your watermarks and images clickable, and link them directly to a PayPal purchase page, so your viewers can purchase products featured in the video immediately.

Thanks to eZs3 user Jules Norfolk (ThaiFood.tv) for this tutorial.

To create a HTML link directly to a PayPal purchase page:

1. Log in to PayPal, and click on Merchant Services in the top nav bar.
2. In the Website Payments Standard section, click on Buy Now Buttons and then on the next page, click on the Get Started button in the left nav panel
3. Fill in the settings for your product including name, description and cost (it doesn't matter about a button style as we'll not be using it). In the Button Encryption section, make sure you select NO and then click on More Options at the bottom.
4. On the next page, fill in your Successful Purchase URL, where the user will be directed on a successful payment, and the Canceled Purchase URL where you can offer them another related product, if they choose not to go through with the purchase. Add any other settings, and then click on Create Buy Now Button at the bottom.
5. On the confirmation screen, scroll down to Links for Emails, and highlight and copy the code into your watermark link.

Please note that this works for players that have the capability of having clickable watermark links - FLV & MP3