With so many options on the market, choosing a tool to monetize your online video content can be difficult. Cleeng is the go-to video monetization solution for many brands and creators. However, before committing to a solution like this, it’s important to know exactly what you’re signing up for.

In this article, we’ll do a thorough review of Cleeng. We’ll discuss what Cleeng is, what the platform offers, and the best use cases. To wrap things up, we’ll compare Cleeng to Maestro’s monetization tools.

Table of Contents

• What is Cleeng?
• Cleeng’s Key Features
• Cleeng Best Use Cases
• Cleeng Pricing
• Pros and Cons of Cleeng
• Cleeng vs. Maestro for Video Monetization

What is Cleeng?

Cleeng is a video paywall and subscription management tool that is designed to help brands and creators monetize their video content. This solution is designed to help users grow their subscription video on demand (SVOD) businesses.

In addition to video monetization, Cleeng users can access customer service and analytics services for an additional fee.

It’s worth noting that Cleeng focuses on video subscription management, not video hosting. This tool is one that you’d add to your streaming tech stack in addition to your online video platform (OVP).

Cleeng’s Key Features

• Subscription management
• TVOD and pay-per-view
• Checkout optimization
• Analytics (paid upgrades)
• Customer service (paid upgrade)
• Wide variety of integrations with other powerful technologies 

Cleeng Best Use Cases

Cleeng is best suited for users who are hosting video content on a platform that does not offer video monetization support.

Since Cleeng is implemented with API, it is also well-suited for organizations that have access to someone with the necessary skills and experience to set up this tool. This could be an in-house tech specialist or a contractor.

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Cleeng Pricing

Cleeng uses a buildable, usage-based pricing model. Customers can combine one or more of Cleeng’s three services (Core, ChunIQ, and Hi5) and can pay per Managed User in increments of 1000, 25,000, 100,000, 250,000, 500,000, and 1,000,000+.

Excluding custom plans for 500,000 and 1,000,000+ Manager Users, the per Managed User rate ranges from $0.135 to $0.325 for the Core offering.

When you build upon Core with ChurnIQ and Hi5, these rates jump to $0.378 to $0.874 per Managed User. Hi5 is more expensive than ChurnIQ. 

You can check out the pricing scale on the Cleeng pricing page to get more precise rates for your specific needs, but the bottom line is that the pricing is a bit complicated. 

Pros and Cons of Cleeng

Pros	Cons
Dedicated monetization tools Usage-based pricing is flexible Minimal content restrictions Integrates with many powerful tools	The offering is limited to monetization tools Access to customer support requires a paid upgrade Dozens of negative reviews from past customers (calling Cleeng a “scam”)

Cleeng vs. Maestro for Video Monetization

The key difference between Cleeng and Maestro is that Cleeng simply provides video monetization with some basic analytics. With that said, let’s take a look at how these video monetization tools compare side-by-side.

	Maestro	Cleeng
Pricing	Simple monthly pricing plans	Usage-based pricing plans
Functionality	Video hosting, live streaming, diverse video monetization, video website building, data and analytics, community management, and more	Video paywall, subscription management, and analytics
Revenue Sharing	Users keep up to 100% of the revenue earned on tickets and subscriptions	Users report that Cleeng keeps up to 50% of revenue
Strengths	End-to-end video hosting (including monetization)	Video monetization
Monetization Tools	Ticketing, subscriptions, tipping, ticket bundles, and live commerce	Ticketing and subscriptions
Interactivity Tools	Clickable overlays, chat, customizable panels, CTAs, and more	n/a
Video Website Building	Easily customizable drag-and-drop video website builder	No video website building tools; only paywalls

 

Host and Monetize on Maestro

If you’re looking for a streaming solution that includes monetization, interactivity, community management, and more, look no further. Maestro is the solution for you!

Our comprehensive video streaming solution provides all of the tools you need to create premium viewing experiences, engage your audience, and diversify your video monetization strategy. Plus, Maestro offers detailed analytics and community dashboards, so you’ll have all of the information you need to make informed decisions for your business.

Best of all, you can try Maestro risk-free for two weeks to see how powerful the platform is!

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