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If your core product is a members-only video library with one new video released each week, I’d shortlist these:

*Prices/features change, so check the current plan before committing.

My pick: Uscreen

For your specific description, Uscreen is probably the most natural fit. It's built around paid video memberships rather than treating video as an add-on. You get a Netflix-style catalog, subscriptions, gated videos, livestreaming, analytics, and marketing automations. Uscreen Uscreen

Its subscription system lets you create recurring plans and assign particular videos/collections to those plans. Uscreen Help

A simple setup could look like:

$19/month → Member login → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → ...

You could also have:

• Free preview videos
• Monthly/annual subscriptions
• Different membership tiers
• A growing video library
• Live sessions
• Member accounts and recurring billing
• Eventually, branded iOS/Android apps

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

If the videos are more like a course/program and you also want sophisticated email marketing, funnels, landing pages, downloads, coaching, etc., I'd look at Kajabi. It supports recurring memberships and scheduled/dripped content, including setups where new members only receive content from their enrollment point forward. Kajabi Kajabi

When I'd choose Circle

If community is a major part of what subscribers are paying for—discussion, Q&A, member interaction, live events, etc.—Circle is compelling. Its courses can release sections gradually based on enrollment or fixed dates, and its membership platform combines subscriptions, courses, discussions, events, and live streams. Circle Circle

So, in one sentence:
Video membership → Uscreen. Course/business ecosystem → Kajabi. Community + video → Circle.

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, or 5,000), your monthly price, and whether the videos are fitness/education/coaching/entertainment, I can narrow it down and calculate the likely monthly platform costs.

For a members-only site where subscribers unlock a new video every week, you’ll want a platform with:

• recurring subscriptions (Stripe/PayPal)
• member logins
• drip content (release videos on a schedule)
• video hosting/streaming
• email notifications (optional but useful)
• ideally community features if retention matters

The best choice depends on whether you’re building a video library, a course, or a community membership. Mighty Networks Uscreen

My shortlist

1. kajabi.com — Best all-in-one for a professional subscription business

Best for: Coaches, educators, creators selling a premium membership.

Pros:

• Excellent drip-course functionality
• Membership areas + subscriptions
• Built-in email marketing and automations
• Landing pages, checkout, funnels all included

Cons:

• More expensive than simpler options
• Can be overkill if you only need a video vault

Kajabi is commonly chosen when you want the whole business system in one place: website, payments, email, and content delivery. Learning Revolution

2. uscreen.tv — Best if video is the product

Best for: Fitness programs, training libraries, entertainment, weekly video subscriptions.

Pros:

• Built specifically around video memberships
• Strong video experience
• Supports subscription streaming models
• More like your own Netflix-style platform

Cons:

• Less flexible as a general business website
• Usually unnecessary for simple courses

Uscreen is often positioned for creators whose main product is ongoing video access rather than a traditional course. Uscreen

3. thinkific.com — Best for structured weekly lessons

Best for: “Week 1 → Week 2 → Week 3” learning programs.

Pros:

• Strong course organization
• Lesson scheduling/drip release
• Student progress tracking
• Quizzes and learning tools

Cons:

• Community and marketing tools are not as central as some competitors

Good fit if subscribers are paying to learn a skill rather than just watch videos. Toolradar

4. podia.com — Best simple/creator-friendly option

Best for: Solo creators who want something easy.

Pros:

• Simple setup
• Courses + memberships + digital products
• Less technical than WordPress

Cons:

• Fewer advanced features for large memberships

A good middle ground if you want to launch quickly. Mighty Networks

5. memberpress.com + WordPress — Best for maximum control

Best for: Someone who already has a WordPress site or wants ownership.

Pros:

• Powerful membership rules
• Flexible pricing tiers
• Lots of integrations

Cons:

• More setup and maintenance
• You’ll usually combine it with a video host and email tool

WordPress membership plugins are popular when customization matters more than simplicity. Learning Revolution

Quick recommendation by scenario

For your exact description — subscribers receiving a new video weekly — I’d lean:

1. Uscreen if the videos are the product
2. Kajabi if videos are part of a broader coaching/course business
3. Podia if you want a simple launch without much tech

A couple questions would narrow it down:

• Are these pre-recorded videos or live sessions?
• Do you want a Netflix-style video library or a course path with weeks/modules?
• Roughly how many subscribers do you expect (50, 500, 5,000+)?

If your core model is “members pay monthly, log in, and get a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Podia

For what you described, Podia is probably the simplest choice. It combines the website, member accounts, subscriptions, courses/video content, and community rather than making you stitch together several services. Its current membership plans support recurring monthly/annual payments and can include specific products/content. Podia Help Center Podia Help Center

You could structure it like:

• $29/month membership
• Member creates account and pays
• Week 1: Video 1 becomes available
• Week 2: Video 2
• Week 3: Video 3
• Week 4: Video 4
• New videos continue appearing each week
• Cancelled subscribers lose access according to your membership setup

Podia also now has built-in community functionality, although you can effectively keep the experience focused on the content if you don't want a big social/community component. Podia Help Center Podia Help Center

When I'd choose Circle instead

If the community is almost as important as the videos, I'd lean toward Circle. It has native paywalls/subscriptions and, importantly, a proper course drip system where sections can be released based on a number of days after enrollment or on specific dates. Circle Circle

That's particularly good for something like:

Week 1 → Training + discussion
Week 2 → New training + Q&A
Week 3 → New training + member discussion

When I'd choose Kajabi

Choose Kajabi if you're building this into a larger online business—for example, membership + email marketing + sales funnels + courses + upsells. Kajabi supports recurring memberships and gated Courses/Communities/Downloads in one system. Kajabi Kajabi

It's more powerful, but I'd probably not pay for the extra complexity if all you need right now is a polished members-only video library with weekly releases.

Bottom line:
Podia → easiest/simplest
Circle → best if community matters
Kajabi → best if you're building a serious marketing/business machine

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000) and what you'd charge per month, I can narrow this down to the best platform based on actual monthly cost + video hosting + transaction fees.

If your core model is “members pay monthly, and I release a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

For weekly video drops, Uscreen is probably the cleanest fit. It's built specifically around paid video memberships rather than treating video as an add-on to a course/community platform. You can gate videos behind subscriptions, organize them into a Netflix-style catalog, and sell recurring memberships. Uscreen Help Uscreen

Its current Starter plan is $49/month with a 100-subscriber limit; Growth is listed at $149/month annually + $1.99/subscriber and removes the subscriber limit. Uscreen

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🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if the videos are part of a bigger education/coaching business. It supports recurring memberships and, importantly, lets you drip content over time. It also has email marketing, offers, funnels, community, and analytics built in. Kajabi Kajabi

kajabi.com

🥉 Circle

Circle is excellent if your proposition is more like:

“Join my private community, and get a new training every Friday.”

It supports paid subscriptions/paywalls and lets you gate individual spaces or the whole community. Circle Circle

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What I'd do

If you primarily sell videos, use Uscreen.

If you sell access to you + videos + a community, use Circle.

If you sell a structured educational program and want serious marketing automation, use Kajabi.

For example, your setup could be:

$29/month membership → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video → new video every Friday → members retain access while subscribed.

One important question changes my recommendation: Do you want new members to see the entire back catalog, or should they start at Week 1 and unlock one video per week? If you tell me that + roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000), I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options and estimate the monthly cost.

If your core model is “people pay monthly, become members, and get a new video every week,” I’d prioritize a video-first membership platform rather than a generic course builder.

My top picks

🥇 I'd choose Uscreen for your use case

Uscreen is specifically built around paid video memberships. You can have a branded website, recurring subscriptions, a Netflix-style video library, gated videos, and member accounts in one system. Uscreen Uscreen Help

It also supports assigning videos to subscription plans, so you can control exactly which paying members get access. Uscreen Help

Its current Starter plan is $49/month with a 100-subscriber limit; Growth is listed at $149/month annually ($199 monthly) plus $1.99/subscriber and removes the subscriber limit. Uscreen

The experience I'd envision is:

Landing page → Subscribe → Member login → “Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3…” → new video appears each week → members receive an email notification.

Uscreen also has built-in email automations based on things like subscribing, starting a trial, or canceling. Uscreen Help

When I'd pick something else

Kajabi — Choose this if the videos are really part of a broader course/coaching business, and you want sophisticated funnels, email marketing, landing pages, and offers.

Circle — Choose this if the real product is the community, with the weekly video being one component. Circle supports paid subscriptions and paywalled community spaces. Circle

Thinkific — Better if you want a traditional curriculum with courses, lessons, quizzes, student progress, etc.

Podia — Worth considering if you want something simpler and cheaper and don't need a sophisticated Netflix-like video experience.

One important distinction

If by “drip videos weekly” you mean:

Someone subscribes today → they get Video 1 immediately → Video 2 seven days later → Video 3 another seven days later → etc.

that's different from:

Everyone gets the same new Video 12 on Friday.

If you tell me which of those you want, plus roughly how many subscribers you expect (100, 1,000, 10,000+), I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 platforms and estimate your monthly cost.

For a members-only site where subscribers get a new video every week, I’d focus less on a generic website builder and more on platforms that handle:

• recurring subscriptions (Stripe/PayPal)
• member logins
• video hosting
• drip scheduling (“release Week 2 video after 7 days”)
• email notifications
• cancellations/upgrades automatically

The best options depend on what kind of business you’re building:

Best overall: Kajabi

Best for: coaches, creators, educators, premium memberships

Why it’s strong:

• Built specifically for paid courses + memberships
• Excellent drip content controls
• Includes email marketing, landing pages, checkout, automations
• Less technical setup (no plugin stack)

Downside:

• More expensive than simpler tools

Good fit example:

“Members pay $29/month and receive one new training video every Monday, plus access to the archive.”

Guideflow Learning Revolution

Best if video is the main product: Uscreen

Best for: Netflix-style video libraries

Why it’s strong:

• Video-first membership experience
• Designed around subscriptions and streaming
• Better if your site is mostly a video catalog

Downside:

• Less focused on broader marketing funnels than Kajabi

The CMO

Best community + videos: Mighty Networks or Circle

Best for:

• memberships where discussion/community matters
• challenges, cohorts, group coaching

Features:

• member profiles
• discussions
• events
• courses/content areas
• mobile-friendly experiences

Downside:

• Video lessons are not always as course-centric as dedicated LMS platforms

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Best budget/simple option: Podia

Best for:

• solo creators
• smaller memberships
• getting launched quickly

Pros:

• Simple interface
• Courses + memberships + digital products
• Less overwhelming

Cons:

• Fewer advanced features than Kajabi

Guideflow

Best if you already have a WordPress site

Use:

• MemberPress + LearnDash (or another LMS)

Pros:

• Maximum control
• Own your site
• Flexible pricing and content rules

Cons:

• More maintenance (hosting, updates, plugins)

Guideflow Learning Revolution

My shortlist by scenario

A simple setup I’d recommend for most creators:

Website + checkout + members area: Kajabi
Video release schedule: drip one lesson/week
Email: automated “Your new video is live” emails
Subscription: monthly or annual plan

If you tell me your niche (fitness, cooking, investing, education, church, coaching, etc.), approximate subscriber count, and budget/month, I can narrow it to 2–3 choices.

For a members-only site where subscribers get a new video every week, you’ll want a platform with:

• recurring subscriptions/payments
• member login area
• video hosting or easy video embeds
• drip content (release Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, etc.)
• email notifications/reminders
• ideally progress tracking and community features

The best choice depends on whether you’re building more of a course, community, or Netflix-style video library. Here are the strongest options:

My picks by scenario

1. You’re selling a premium weekly video program ($20–$200+/month)

Choose Kajabi.

Example:

• Subscriber joins
• Gets “Week 1: Foundations”
• Seven days later unlocks “Week 2: Technique”
• Automated email says “Your next lesson is ready”
• You can upsell coaching, workshops, or products

It’s probably the closest “all-in-one business” solution. Mighty Networks

2. You want a Netflix-like membership library

Consider Mighty Networks, Uscreen, or a video-first setup.

Good for:

• fitness libraries
• yoga
• cooking
• hobby tutorials
• creator subscriptions

3. You want the simplest thing that works

Choose Podia or Thinkific.

You can launch quickly:

• create membership
• upload videos
• set release dates
• collect payments

4. You already have a website

Use WordPress + MemberPress or similar.

Good if you already have:

• a blog
• SEO traffic
• a custom brand/site design

What I would avoid

• Building it from scratch with custom code (unless you need unusual features)
• Using YouTube unlisted videos alone (links get shared and there’s no real member experience)
• Patreon if the content delivery experience matters; it’s better for fan support than structured weekly learning

My short recommendation

For most creators:

1. Kajabi → best overall if you’re building a business
2. Thinkific → best if the videos are a course/program
3. Mighty Networks → best if community is part of the value
4. Podia → best budget/simple option

If you tell me:

• your niche (fitness, education, coaching, entertainment, etc.)
• expected subscriber count (50 vs 5,000+)
• monthly price you want to charge

…I can narrow it down to the best fit.

If your core business is “people subscribe, log in, and get a new video every week,” I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

For exactly what you're describing, Uscreen is probably the cleanest fit. It's built around paid video memberships rather than treating video as an add-on to a course platform.

You can:

• Charge monthly or annual subscriptions.
• Put videos behind a member login/paywall.
• Release videos on a drip schedule.
• Organize everything into a Netflix-style video library.
• Offer free trials.
• Send automated emails to members.
• Eventually add branded iOS/Android/TV apps if the business grows. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help Uscreen

Importantly, Uscreen now supports drip scheduling at the individual-video level—you can specify how many days after enrollment a video becomes available. Uscreen Help

Current pricing starts at $49/month for Starter, while Growth is $149/month billed annually ($199 monthly) and removes the 100-subscriber limit. Uscreen

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🥈 Circle — if you want a membership community

I'd choose Circle instead if the videos are only part of what subscribers are paying for—for example:

Weekly video → discussion → Q&A → downloadable resources → member community

Circle lets you create structured or scheduled courses and drip sections either based on days after enrollment or specific dates. It also has subscription paywalls. Circle Circle

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🥉 Kajabi — if marketing/sales funnels are important

Kajabi makes more sense if you're building a broader creator business around the videos: courses, email marketing, landing pages, memberships, coaching, etc. Its membership product is specifically designed around recurring revenue. Kajabi

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What I'd do in your shoes

If the product is essentially:

“Join for $X/month → every Monday a new premium video becomes available → members can watch the growing library.”

I'd use Uscreen.

If it's:

“Join for $X/month → weekly video + community + discussion + live calls + resources.”

I'd use Circle.

If you tell me what kind of videos you're selling (fitness, education, coaching, entertainment, niche hobby, etc.) and roughly how much you want to charge per month, I can recommend the exact platform/setup I'd use—including the cheapest option that won't paint you into a corner.

If your core model is “people pay monthly, log in, and get a new video every week,” I’d narrow it to these three:

1. Uscreen — my first choice

If the videos are the product, I'd pick Uscreen.

You can create paid subscriptions, put videos into a membership, and drip individual videos according to a schedule. It also gives you a Netflix-style catalog, branded domain, analytics, marketing/automation, and eventually native iOS/Android apps. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help Uscreen

For example:

$29/month membership
Week 1 → Video 1
Week 2 → Video 2
Week 3 → Video 3
Week 4 → Video 4
...
Members keep access as long as they remain subscribed.

Uscreen currently starts at $49/month, with its Growth plan aimed specifically at recurring-revenue membership businesses. Uscreen

2. Circle — best if you want a community around the videos

circle.so is particularly attractive if you want members to discuss each week's video, ask questions, post results, attend events, etc.

Its courses support both relative drip ("7 days after joining") and fixed-date drip ("release every Monday"), which is exactly the functionality you're describing. Circle Circle

I'd choose Circle over Uscreen if your product is really:

Video lessons + discussion + community + events

rather than simply:

Video library + subscription.

3. Mighty Networks — another strong community-first option

mightynetworks.com combines memberships, courses, community, events and native mobile apps. Its courses support sequential/timed/dripped content. Mighty Networks Mighty Networks

It's especially compelling if you want the membership to feel like a private club/community, rather than a traditional course website.

What I'd choose

If I were building this today:

• Mostly videos: → Uscreen
• Videos + active member community: → Circle
• Community is the main product, with videos as part of it: → Mighty Networks
• Want a traditional online-course/business platform with lots of marketing functionality: → I'd also evaluate Kajabi/Thinkific, but I wouldn't start there for a video-first subscription.

One important distinction: do you want the drip to be based on each subscriber's join date, or do you want everyone to receive the same new video every Monday? Those are slightly different setups, and I'd choose the platform differently depending on which you mean.

If the videos are the product, I'd pick Uscreen.

You can create paid subscriptions, put videos into a membership, and drip individual videos according to a schedule. It also gives you a Netflix-style catalog, branded domain, analytics, marketing/automation, and eventually native iOS/Android apps. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help Uscreen

For example:

$29/month membership
Week 1 → Video 1
Week 2 → Video 2
Week 3 → Video 3
Week 4 → Video 4
...
Members keep access as long as they remain subscribed.

Uscreen currently starts at $49/month, with its Growth plan aimed specifically at recurring-revenue membership businesses. Uscreen

2. Circle — best if you want a community around the videos

circle.so is particularly attractive if you want members to discuss each week's video, ask questions, post results, attend events, etc.

Its courses support both relative drip ("7 days after joining") and fixed-date drip ("release every Monday"), which is exactly the functionality you're describing. help.circle.so help.circle.so

I'd choose Circle over Uscreen if your product is really:

Video lessons + discussion + community + events

rather than simply:

Video library + subscription.

3. Mighty Networks — another strong community-first option

For a members-only site where subscribers get new videos released every week, you’ll want a platform with:

• recurring subscriptions (monthly/yearly)
• protected video hosting
• drip scheduling (“Week 1 unlocks Monday, Week 2 unlocks next Monday”)
• email notifications
• member management
• ideally community features

The best choice depends on whether you’re building more of a course, Netflix-style video library, or community.

Best overall picks

My recommendations by scenario

1. “I have weekly videos and just want people to subscribe”

Pick Podia or Thinkific.

Example:

• Subscriber joins
• Week 1 video appears immediately
• Week 2 unlocks 7 days later
• Week 3 unlocks after another week
• Emails remind them when new content arrives

This is the simplest model.

2. “I want this to feel like a premium Netflix for my niche”

Pick Kajabi.

Good for:

• fitness programs
• cooking clubs
• investing education
• coaching programs
• professional training

It’s more expensive, but you avoid stitching together separate tools for email, payments, landing pages, and content delivery. Learning Revolution

3. “The community is the product”

Pick Mighty Networks or Circle.

Example:

• weekly video drop
• discussion thread
• member profiles
• live Q&A sessions
• challenges/groups

These can create more retention than a simple video library. Mighty Networks AITechStack

4. “I already have a website”

Consider:

• WordPress + MemberPress
• Webflow + membership tools
• your existing site connected to a course platform

This gives more control but requires more setup.

My short list

If I were choosing:

• Starting from scratch, serious business: Kajabi
• Affordable and simple: Podia
• Teaching a structured program: Thinkific
• Building a paid community: Circle or Mighty Networks
• Already on WordPress: MemberPress

A few questions would narrow it down:

1. How many subscribers do you expect (50, 500, 5,000+)?
2. Are these pre-recorded videos released weekly, or live sessions?
3. Do you want a Netflix-style library or a course with lessons/progress tracking?
4. What monthly budget are you comfortable with?

If your core model is “people subscribe, then get a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

1. Uscreen — best overall

• Built specifically for paid video memberships.
• You get a branded members-only website, subscriptions, video hosting, content organization, analytics, and community.
• It supports gated collections/subscriptions, so you can control exactly what paying members can access. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help
• Current pricing starts at $49/month for Starter; Growth is $149/month annually or $199 monthly, with additional subscriber fees. Uscreen
• It also has native automations for onboarding, retention, and drip-style campaigns. Uscreen Help

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2. Kajabi — best if you also want courses/email marketing

• Stronger if your videos are part of a larger education/coaching business.
• Website + memberships + courses + email marketing + sales funnels in one system.
• I'd choose it over Uscreen if marketing funnels and selling multiple digital products are more important than having a Netflix-like video experience.
• Circle — best if community is the main attraction

• Excellent for discussion, groups, events, and member interaction.
• Its paywalls support recurring subscriptions and can gate specific spaces/content. Circle Circle
• I'd use it if your product is “community + weekly videos”, rather than primarily a video library.

My pick for your use case

Start with Uscreen. It's unusually well matched to:

Subscriber pays $29/month → creates account → sees Week 1 → Week 2 unlocks the following week → Week 3 unlocks after that → ongoing weekly releases.

It is purpose-built around the video-membership model rather than forcing a course platform or community platform to behave like one. Uscreen Uscreen

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000) and your monthly price, I can compare Uscreen vs Kajabi vs Circle vs a cheaper setup and tell you which will give you the best economics.

If your core model is “members pay monthly, and I release a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

1. Kajabi — best overall

• Built specifically for paid memberships, courses, subscriptions, email, landing pages, and payments.
• You can drip content on a schedule, so Week 1 becomes available, then Week 2, etc. Kajabi Kajabi
• Particularly good if you also want marketing funnels, email automation, upsells, and a polished branded website.
• My pick if you're building a serious subscription business rather than just a video library.
• kajabi.com
• Uscreen — best for a video-first Netflix-style site

• Designed around paid video memberships.
• You can put videos into collections and drip them a specified number of days after someone joins. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help
• Strong video catalog/player experience, subscriptions, and apps/TV viewing.
• It also now has native email automations based on member behavior. Uscreen Help
• My pick if the videos themselves are the product.
• uscreen.tv
• Mighty Networks — best if community matters

• Combines paid memberships, courses, video lessons, discussion, events, and community.
• Supports sequential, timed, and dripped courses. Mighty Networks
• Launch is currently $79/month annually ($95 monthly), with native video uploads and 200 GB storage. Mighty Networks Developer Mighty Networks
• Great if you want members interacting with each other, not just watching videos.
• mightynetworks.com

What I'd choose

For example, you could structure it as:

$29/month membership → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video → new videos every week

The important distinction is whether you want new members to start at Week 1 or join the current week. Kajabi specifically supports both models: normal drip scheduling and a “monthly enrolling” model where someone joining later doesn't automatically get your earlier content. Kajabi Kajabi

If you tell me (1) roughly how many videos you'll have, (2) your planned monthly price, and (3) whether you want a community/chat component, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 platforms and compare their actual costs and limitations.

For a members-only site that releases videos weekly (“drip content”) for paying subscribers, the best choice depends on whether you care more about course delivery, community, marketing, or owning your website. Here are the strongest options: Webflow Learning Revolution

Best overall picks

1. kajabi.com — Best all-in-one creator business

Best for: A paid video membership where you also want email marketing, sales pages, checkout, and automation.

Pros

• Excellent video/course organization
• Drip lessons weekly or on a schedule
• Built-in email marketing and funnels
• Professional member experience
• No need to stitch together many tools

Cons

• More expensive than simpler options

Choose it if: You’re building a serious subscription business and want everything under one roof. Dupple Mighty Networks

2. memberpress.com — Best if you want your own WordPress site

Best for: Owning your website, content, and customer database.

Pros

• Strong membership rules (“members get access after X weeks”)
• Video/course drip scheduling
• Works with WordPress themes and plugins
• More control and customization

Cons

• Requires managing WordPress hosting and maintenance

Choose it if: You already have WordPress or want maximum ownership. MemberPress MemberPress

3. circle.so — Best if community is part of the product

Best for: “Netflix + private community” style memberships.

Pros

• Beautiful member experience
• Discussions, events, groups, and courses
• Good for recurring engagement

Cons

• Less focused on advanced course infrastructure than dedicated LMS tools

Choose it if: Members should interact with each other, not just watch videos. Mighty Networks

4. podia.com — Best simple/affordable option

Best for: Solo creators who want to launch quickly.

Pros

• Easy setup
• Memberships + courses + digital products
• Less technical overhead

Cons

• Fewer advanced features than Kajabi

Choose it if: You want to get live quickly without building a complicated system. Dupple

5. thinkific.com — Best for structured learning

Best for: A curriculum where members progress through lessons.

Pros

• Strong course tools
• Progress tracking
• Quizzes and structured learning paths

Cons

• Less “community-first” than Circle or Mighty Networks

Choose it if: Your weekly videos are more like a training program or academy. Learning Revolution

My recommendation by scenario

• Weekly coaching videos + subscribers + email marketing: → Kajabi
• You want a branded website you own: → WordPress + MemberPress
• You want members chatting and networking: → Circle
• You’re starting small and want simplicity: → Podia
• You’re teaching a formal course: → Thinkific

A very common setup would be:

Website → membership checkout → private video library → weekly drip emails → new video released every Monday

For video hosting itself, many creators avoid uploading raw videos directly to their website and instead use a video host (such as vimeo.com) and embed protected videos inside the membership area.

If you tell me:

1. your expected subscriber count (50? 500? 10,000?),
2. whether you need a community/chat, and
3. whether you already have a website (WordPress, Wix, Webflow, etc.),

I can narrow it down to the best 1–2 choices.

If your core model is “people subscribe, log in, and get a new video every week”, I’d prioritize a video-first membership platform rather than a generic website builder.

My top picks

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen for your use case

uscreen.tv is specifically built around paid video memberships. You can have a branded members-only site, recurring subscriptions, a Netflix-style video catalog, and gated videos. Uscreen Uscreen Help

It also supports assigning videos to subscription plans, so you can control exactly which members get access to which content. Uscreen Help

Current pricing starts at $49/month for Starter (100 subscribers), while Growth is listed at $199/month or $149/month annually, plus a per-subscriber fee. Uscreen

For example, your setup could be:

$19/month membership → Member signs up → gets Week 1 video → Week 2 unlocks 7 days later → Week 3 unlocks another 7 days later → etc.

That's much closer to what Uscreen is designed for than trying to cobble this together with WordPress + a video host + a membership plugin.

🥈 Circle if the community is the product

circle.so is particularly attractive if you want each video accompanied by discussion, comments, Q&As, events, chat, and community interaction. Circle supports scheduled/dripped courses as well as memberships and subscriptions. Circle Circle

I'd choose Circle over Uscreen if you're thinking:

"Every week I release a lesson, and I want members talking to each other and discussing it."

I'd choose Uscreen if you're thinking:

"Netflix for my content, but people pay me every month."

🥉 Kajabi if marketing/sales funnels are important

kajabi.com makes more sense if you're building a larger creator business around the membership—courses, email marketing, landing pages, offers, coaching, upsells, etc.

For just weekly subscriber video, though, I'd consider it more platform than you need.

One important question

There are actually two different kinds of "weekly drip", and the software choice can change:

1. Calendar-based: Everyone gets Video #5 on Friday.
2. Member-based: Someone joins today → Video #1 immediately → Video #2 in 7 days → Video #3 in 14 days, regardless of when they joined.

If you mean #2, tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 100, 1,000, 10,000) and what you want to charge per month, and I can recommend the best platform and estimate your monthly software costs.

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen for your use case

uscreen.tv is specifically built around paid video memberships. You can have a branded members-only site, recurring subscriptions, a Netflix-style video catalog, and gated videos. Uscreen Uscreen Help

It also supports assigning videos to subscription plans, so you can control exactly which members get access to which content. Uscreen Help

Current pricing starts at $49/month for Starter (100 subscribers), while Growth is listed at $199/month or $149/month annually, plus a per-subscriber fee. Uscreen

For example, your setup could be:

$19/month membership → Member signs up → gets Week 1 video → Week 2 unlocks 7 days later → Week 3 unlocks another 7 days later → etc.

That's much closer to what Uscreen is designed for than trying to cobble this together with WordPress + a video host + a membership plugin.

🥈 Circle if the community is the product

circle.so is particularly attractive if you want each video accompanied by discussion, comments, Q&As, events, chat, and community interaction. Circle supports scheduled/dripped courses as well as memberships and subscriptions. help.circle.so circle.so

I'd choose Circle over Uscreen if you're thinking:

"Every week I release a lesson, and I want members talking to each other and discussing it."

I'd choose Uscreen if you're thinking:

"Netflix for my content, but people pay me every month."

🥉 Kajabi if marketing/sales funnels are important

If your core model is “people subscribe, then get a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

Uscreen is probably the closest match to what you're describing. It's built specifically around paid video memberships, with a Netflix-style video catalog, subscriptions, member accounts, livestreaming, and community. www.uscreen.tv

Most importantly, Uscreen now supports drip scheduling based on enrollment—e.g. Video 1 immediately, Video 2 seven days later, Video 3 another seven days later, etc. help.uscreen.tv

Current pricing starts at $49/month for Starter (100 subscribers max); Growth is listed at $149/month when billed annually + $1.99/subscriber. www.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi

Kajabi Memberships is better if your videos are really part of a broader course/business funnel—landing pages, email marketing, courses, coaching, offers, etc. Kajabi supports recurring memberships and multiple membership tiers. www.kajabi.com

I'd choose Kajabi over Uscreen if your business is more like:

“I'm teaching a program and releasing a lesson every week.”

I'd choose Uscreen if it's more like:

“I'm building a Netflix-style library that people pay monthly to access.”

🥉 Circle

Circle is excellent if the community itself is a major part of the product. It supports structured/scheduled courses and drip releases, while putting discussions, events, Q&As, and community alongside the videos. help.circle.so

What I'd use for your setup

If you told me:

“I want subscribers to pay $X/month, log into my site, and every Monday a new premium video becomes available.”

I'd go Uscreen.

If you told me:

“I want a 12-week educational program, with videos + worksheets + emails + sales funnels.”

I'd go Kajabi.

If you told me:

“The videos are important, but I really want members talking to each other and interacting with me.”

I'd go Circle.

If you tell me what kind of videos you're selling and roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, or 5,000), I can narrow it down to the best option and estimate your monthly costs.

If your core model is “people pay monthly, and I release a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

For a members-only video library, Uscreen is probably the cleanest fit. It is built specifically around paid video memberships rather than treating video as an add-on to a course platform.

You can:

• Charge recurring subscriptions.
• Put videos behind a member login.
• Organize videos into collections/catalogs.
• Control which subscription gets access to particular content.
• Build a branded membership website.
• Add live video and community features.
• Eventually offer branded iOS/Android/TV apps. Uscreen Help Uscreen Uscreen

Its current Starter plan is $49/month with a 100-subscriber limit; Growth is $199/month ($149/month when billed annually) plus a subscriber fee. Uscreen

One caveat: if by “drip weekly” you mean “Member joins today → Week 1 video immediately → Week 2 exactly 7 days later → Week 3 another 7 days later”, I'd verify the exact drip workflow you want before committing. Uscreen is excellent at gated subscription video, but its content-access model is somewhat different from a traditional sequential course drip.

🥈 Circle — potentially better for a membership community

If the experience you want is:

Video + discussion + community + weekly lessons

I'd seriously consider Circle.

Circle has courses, paid memberships, discussions, events, live streams, a website builder, and custom branding. Its course system specifically supports dripping sections based on enrollment or scheduled dates. Circle Circle

Professional currently starts at $89/month. Circle

So, for example:

Member joins → Week 1 video → discussion → Week 2 video → live Q&A → Week 3 video → community discussion

That's very much in Circle's wheelhouse.

🥉 Kajabi — best if you're building a larger info-product business

I'd choose Kajabi if the videos are part of a broader business involving email marketing, sales funnels, landing pages, courses, coaching, upsells, etc.

It's more of an all-in-one creator business platform than a pure video membership platform.

What I'd choose based on your idea

If it's Netflix-style:

“Pay $29/month and get a new premium video every Friday.”

→ Uscreen

If it's a learning program:

“Pay $49/month, follow my weekly program, watch the lesson, discuss it with other members, attend Q&As.”

→ Circle

If it's a business/course funnel:

“Free content → email list → $99 course → $49/month membership → coaching/upsells.”

→ Kajabi

One other option worth considering is memberspace.com if you already have a website and simply want to add paid member access rather than rebuild the site.

For your exact description, I'd start with Uscreen and Circle. The deciding question is whether you want the site to feel more like Netflix (Uscreen) or a private learning/community club (Circle).

If your core model is “people subscribe, then get a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to these:

My recommendation

I'd pick Uscreen if the videos are the product. It's specifically designed around subscription video businesses: members get a Netflix-style library, subscriptions, gated video, community features, and even branded mobile/TV apps as you scale. Uscreen Uscreen

For example, you could structure it:

• Week 1: Video #1 immediately after subscribing
• Week 2: Video #2 unlocks 7 days later
• Week 3: Video #3 unlocks another 7 days later
• Week 4: Video #4
• Ongoing: New video every Friday
• Member dashboard: “Available Now” + locked upcoming videos
• Subscription: $19/month, $29/month, etc.
• Cancelled subscribers automatically lose access

Kajabi would be my second choice if you're selling more than videos—e.g. videos + email marketing + landing pages + courses + coaching. Kajabi supports recurring memberships and dripping content over time. Kajabi Podia

Podia is worth considering if you want to keep things relatively simple and inexpensive. It supports courses with lessons that drip over time, memberships, community, email, and your website in one place. Podia

One important distinction

If you mean “a new video is released to everyone every Friday”, that's slightly different from “each subscriber gets their next video 7 days after joining.”

• Same release schedule for everyone: Uscreen, Kajabi, or Podia can work well.
• 7-day-per-member drip: I'd lean Kajabi/Thinkific/Podia because course-style drip scheduling is central to the experience.
• Netflix-like video library with subscriptions: Uscreen is the strongest fit. Uscreen

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 100, 1,000, or 10,000) and what you want to charge per month, I can narrow this down to the cheapest/best setup and estimate your monthly software cost.

If you mean “a new video is released to everyone every Friday”, that's slightly different from “each subscriber gets their next video 7 days after joining.”

For a members-only site where subscribers get a new video every week, you’ll want a platform with:

• recurring subscriptions/payments
• member logins
• video hosting or video embeds
• drip content (release Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, etc.)
• email notifications/automation
• ideally a community area

My top picks:

1. Kajabi — Best all-in-one choice

kajabi.com

Best if: you want a polished paid membership business.

Pros:

• Excellent video course delivery
• Strong drip scheduling
• Built-in email marketing
• Landing pages, checkout, offers, coupons
• No plugins or technical setup

Cons:

• More expensive than many alternatives
• Community features are not its strongest area

Kajabi is often the easiest route if your model is “people subscribe → every week they unlock a new lesson/video.” Mighty Networks Kajabi

2. Thinkific — Best for structured video programs

thinkific.com

Best if: your membership feels like a course or training program.

Pros:

• Strong learning experience
• Video lessons
• Drip schedules
• Progress tracking
• Quizzes and learning paths

Cons:

• Less “community-first” than some options

Thinkific is a good fit for a weekly curriculum, such as “12 weeks of training” or “one new module every Friday.” Mighty Networks

3. Mighty Networks — Best if community matters

mightynetworks.com

Best if: subscribers should interact with each other.

Pros:

• Community feeds
• Discussions
• Events/live sessions
• Courses + memberships
• Mobile apps

Cons:

• Less focused on traditional course drip flows than dedicated LMS platforms

Great for memberships like:

• fitness groups
• coaching communities
• creator clubs
• mastermind groups

Mighty Networks Mighty Networks

4. MemberPress — Best if you want ownership/control

memberpress.com

Best if: you already use WordPress or want a fully customizable website.

Pros:

• Membership rules
• Subscription billing
• Drip content
• You own the site/data

Cons:

• More setup and maintenance
• Usually requires WordPress hosting and sometimes extra plugins

Mighty Networks

5. Podia — Best simple/affordable option

podia.com

Best if: you want something easy without a lot of complexity.

Pros:

• Simple website builder
• Courses + memberships
• Email tools
• Easy setup

Cons:

• Less advanced than Kajabi/Thinkific

Mighty Networks

My recommendation by scenario

• “I just want subscribers to log in and get one new video each week.”

→ Thinkific or Podia

• “I want this to become a serious subscription business.”

→ Kajabi

• “The community is the product.”

→ Mighty Networks

• “I already have a WordPress site.”

→ MemberPress

A very common setup is:

• host videos inside Kajabi/Thinkific or upload privately to Vimeo
• create weekly modules
• set each module to unlock X days after signup
• automate an email saying “Your new lesson is available”

If you tell me your approximate size (10 subscribers vs 10,000), whether videos are courses vs ongoing weekly episodes, and your budget/month, I can narrow this to 1–2 choices.

Yes — for a members-only site where people subscribe and receive new videos on a weekly schedule, I’d narrow it down to these:

My top picks

• uscreen.tv — Best overall for video memberships.

This is the one I’d pick if video is the core product. It gives you a branded membership website, recurring subscriptions, gated video, a Netflix-style video catalog, and marketing/automation tools. You can assign videos to subscription plans so only paying members can watch them. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help
Current pricing: starts at $49/month; the Growth plan is $149/month annually ($199 monthly) plus $1.99/subscriber. Uscreen

• podia.com — Best value/easiest setup.

Better if you want a straightforward website + membership + courses + email/community rather than a dedicated Netflix-style video service. Podia supports paid subscription plans and lets you restrict products/content to specific plans. Podia Help Center Podia Help Center

• kajabi.com — Best for marketing-heavy businesses.

I'd consider this if your videos are part of a larger business involving funnels, email marketing, courses, coaching, upsells, etc. It's powerful, but you're paying for a lot of business/marketing functionality you may not need if your main goal is simply a paid weekly video library.

For your specific idea

If the model is something like:

$19/month → members log in → every Monday a new video becomes available → older videos remain available

I'd go with Uscreen.

It is particularly well suited to this because you can create subscription plans and gate video content to those subscribers. Uscreen Help Uscreen Help

One important distinction: “weekly drip” can mean two different things:

1. Everyone gets Video #1 this Monday, Video #2 next Monday, etc. — a structured course/cohort.
2. A new video is published every Monday for everyone currently subscribed. — an ongoing membership/library.

If you mean #2, Uscreen is especially compelling. It is built around ongoing video memberships rather than just selling a finite online course.

My ranking for you:
1. Uscreen 🥇 — video-first membership
2. Podia 🥈 — simpler/cheaper all-in-one
3. Kajabi 🥉 — best if marketing funnels are a major part of the business

If you tell me roughly how much you want to charge per month and how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 100, 500, 2,000), I can compare the actual costs and tell you which one I'd use.

If your core model is “people subscribe, and I release a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to three platforms:

1. Uscreen — best overall for video

This would be my #1 choice if the videos are the product.

• Built specifically around paid video memberships
• Netflix-style video library
• Recurring subscriptions and multiple membership tiers
• Drip/release content over time
• Supports courses/collections and live video
• Can eventually give members branded iOS/Android apps
• Starts around $49/month on its current pricing page, with higher tiers for apps and additional capabilities. Uscreen Uscreen
• Uscreen specifically supports setting individual videos to become available a certain number of days after enrollment. Uscreen Help

uscreen.tv

Best if: “My Netflix-like library of premium weekly videos” is the business.

2. Kajabi — best if you also want marketing/sales

Kajabi is excellent if the videos are part of a broader business—courses, coaching, email marketing, funnels, downloads, etc.

It supports recurring memberships and drip schedules, including a particularly interesting “monthly enrolling” model where new members don't automatically get access to older content. Kajabi Kajabi Help Center

kajabi.com

Best if: You want the membership to become a larger education/coaching business.

3. Circle — best if community matters

Circle is compelling if you want:

weekly video + discussion + community + live Q&As

It supports courses, paid subscriptions, gated spaces, recurring payments, messaging, events, and community features. Circle Circle

circle.so

Best if: Members aren't just watching videos—they're supposed to interact with each other and you.

What I'd pick

For the specific model you described, I'd start with Uscreen. The important distinction is that it treats video subscriptions as the primary product rather than treating video as an attachment to a community or course platform. Uscreen Uscreen

One thing I'd decide before choosing the software is whether you mean:

A. Every subscriber gets Week 1, Week 2, Week 3... after joining,
or
B. Everyone gets the same new video every Friday, while the entire archive remains available.

Those are quite different membership models, and I'd choose the platform/setup differently depending on which one you want.

For what you described—a members-only site where subscribers pay recurring fees and receive a new video every week—I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen

If the video itself is the product, Uscreen is probably the cleanest fit. It is designed around subscription video businesses, with a Netflix-style content library, memberships, recurring payments, community features, and video delivery. Uscreen Uscreen

You could structure it like:

$29/month membership → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video → etc.

It also supports branded mobile/TV apps if you eventually want to make the membership feel more like a streaming service. Current published pricing starts at $49/month, with higher tiers adding more capacity/features. Uscreen

🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if your weekly videos are more like an educational program/course and you also want email marketing, landing pages, funnels, community, downloads, and other digital products under one roof.

Importantly, Kajabi explicitly supports dripping content over time, so you can release lessons according to a schedule rather than giving a new subscriber the entire library immediately. Kajabi Kajabi

The downside is that it's considerably more expensive than a basic membership solution, and video isn't as central to the experience as it is with Uscreen.

🥉 Circle

I'd consider Circle if the real product is:

weekly video + a community of members

rather than simply a video library.

Members can have discussions around each week's video, ask questions, interact with one another, etc. Circle's current Professional plan is listed at $89/month annually, with transaction fees on payments. Memberful

My recommendation

If you told me:

"I have a library of videos and I want people to pay $X/month to become members, then automatically get a new video every week."

I'd start with Uscreen.

If you told me:

"I'm teaching something, and the videos are part of a larger course/business with email funnels and other products."

I'd start with Kajabi.

If you told me:

"The community and interaction between members is the main value."

I'd start with Circle.

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000), your monthly price, and whether members should get the entire back catalog or only videos released after they join, I can recommend the best setup and estimate your monthly software costs.

Yes. For “members pay a recurring fee → log into a private site → get one new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

*Drip/course functionality depends on how you structure the content.

My #1: Uscreen

If video is the actual product, I'd pick Uscreen.

It's specifically built around paid video memberships rather than being a general website builder that happens to support video. It gives you a branded membership website, video catalog, subscriptions, analytics, marketing automation, and community features. Uscreen Uscreen

Most importantly for your idea, Uscreen has actual drip scheduling: you can set each video to become available a certain number of days after someone enrolls. Uscreen Help

For example:

• Day 0 → Welcome + Video 1
• Day 7 → Video 2
• Day 14 → Video 3
• Day 21 → Video 4
• etc.

That makes it particularly good if you're selling something like “one new training every week” rather than simply dumping a giant video library on subscribers.

Uscreen's current Starter plan is listed at $49/month, with 100 subscribers and 20 hours of video storage; its Growth plan is listed at $149/month when billed annually, with unlimited subscribers and 100 hours of video storage, plus a per-subscriber fee. Uscreen

uscreen.tv

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Choose Kajabi if the videos are part of a larger business involving email marketing, sales funnels, courses, coaching, upsells, downloads, etc.

Kajabi supports both recurring memberships and drip content, including releasing content on a schedule or a certain number of days after enrollment. Kajabi Kajabi

It also has an interesting feature called monthly enrolling memberships, where someone who joins in February doesn't necessarily get January's content. Kajabi

That's useful if your concept is more like:

“Join the program and receive the current week's/month's content going forward.”

kajabi.com

What I'd do in your shoes

If you tell me roughly what the videos are about, your expected number of subscribers, and what you want to charge per month, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and estimate your monthly software costs.

If your core model is “people subscribe, log in, and get a new video every week,” I’d narrow it to three options:

🥇 Best overall: Uscreen

This is probably the closest match to what you described. It’s video-first rather than primarily a course platform.

• Members pay a recurring subscription.
• You get a Netflix-style members area for your videos.
• You can gate videos to specific subscription plans. help.uscreen.tvwww.uscreen.tvwww.kajabi.comhelp.uscreen.tv
• You can drip videos on a schedule—including releasing each video a certain number of days after enrollment. help.uscreen.tv
• It handles payments, member accounts, video hosting and access control.
• You can eventually add branded iOS/Android/TV apps. www.uscreen.tv

Current pricing starts at $49/month, although the Starter plan is limited to 100 subscribers; Growth is currently listed at $199/month monthly ($149/month when billed annually), plus a per-subscriber fee. www.uscreen.tv

I'd choose this if the videos are the product.

🥈 Best if you want a broader business platform: Kajabi

Kajabi is better if your videos are part of a larger business involving:

• courses
• coaching
• email marketing
• sales funnels
• community
• downloadable materials
• multiple membership tiers

It supports recurring memberships and scheduled/dripped content, including the ability to prevent new members from immediately accessing older content. www.kajabi.com

The downside: you're paying for a much broader ecosystem when your primary need may simply be “pay → log in → watch this week's video.”

🥉 Best if community is important: Circle

I'd consider Circle if the experience you want is more:

Weekly video + discussion + community + interaction

rather than:

Netflix-style video library

It's particularly attractive if subscribers should be able to discuss each week's video, ask questions, interact with you, etc.

My recommendation

For the exact business you're describing, I'd rank them:

I'd start with Uscreen unless you know you need Kajabi's broader marketing/course ecosystem.

A particularly nice setup would be:

$X/month → private membership → one new video every Monday → members retain access to the growing library while subscribed.

Uscreen specifically supports subscription plans and assigning videos/collections to those plans, so that workflow is native rather than something you'd have to cobble together with WordPress plugins. help.uscreen.tv

If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000) and what you're charging per month, I can compare the actual costs of Uscreen vs Kajabi vs Circle and tell you which one I'd use.

For a members-only site where subscribers get new videos released every week, you’ll want a platform with:

• recurring subscriptions (monthly/yearly)
• protected video hosting
• drip content scheduling (“Week 1 unlocks Monday, Week 2 unlocks next Monday…”)
• member accounts
• email notifications
• ideally community features

The best choices depend on how you want to run it:

My picks by scenario

You are a coach, instructor, fitness creator, or educator:
→ Kajabi or Thinkific
They handle the “new lesson every week” model very naturally. www.learningrevolution.net

You want a Netflix-style library of videos plus a community:
→ Mighty Networks or Circle
Better if retention comes from member interaction, not just watching videos. aitechstack.iowww.mightynetworks.com

You want the cheapest path to validate the idea:
→ Podia or Thinkific
You can launch without building a complicated tech stack. www.guideflow.comwww.learningrevolution.net

You already have a website and want to add subscriptions:
→ MemberPress + WordPress
More setup work, but more ownership and flexibility. www.learningrevolution.net

A setup I’d recommend for most weekly-video memberships

1. Landing page explaining the subscription
2. Stripe subscription checkout
3. Member account area
4. Video library organized by week/month
5. Automated email: “Your new lesson is available”
6. Community area for questions and discussion

If you tell me:

• your niche (fitness, cooking, investing, coaching, entertainment, etc.)
• expected number of subscribers (50 vs 5,000 makes a big difference)
• whether you want a community/chat

…I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options.

For what you described — a members-only site where subscribers pay recurring fees and receive a new video every week — I’d narrow it down to three:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

Uscreen is particularly well suited to your model because video is the core product, rather than something bolted onto a course platform. It gives you a branded membership website, subscriptions, video hosting, community features, and optional mobile/TV apps. Its current plans start at $49/month. www.uscreen.tv

Most importantly, it supports drip scheduling: you can make Video #1 available immediately, Video #2 seven days later, Video #3 another seven days later, etc. The drip timer can start when someone first accesses the collection. help.uscreen.tv

So you could structure it like:

$19/month membership

• Week 1 → Video 1
• Week 2 → Video 2
• Week 3 → Video 3
• Week 4 → Video 4
• Every week → new video
• Cancel anytime → access ends

You can also have multiple subscription tiers and sell individual videos/courses in addition to subscriptions. www.uscreen.tv

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Choose Kajabi if the videos are part of a broader information business — e.g. videos + PDFs + email marketing + webinars + community + sales funnels. Kajabi supports recurring memberships and gated content natively. www.kajabi.com

The downside is that you're paying for a much broader business/marketing platform when your primary requirement is "people pay me and get videos every week."

What I would NOT do

I wouldn't start by cobbling together:

WordPress + membership plugin + Stripe + Vimeo + email automation + drip plugin

It can work, but you're now responsible for maintaining five different systems. For a video subscription business, I'd rather pay for an integrated platform.

My recommendation

If you tell me what kind of videos you're selling (fitness, education, coaching, entertainment, professional training, etc.), your expected monthly price, and roughly how many subscribers you expect, I can recommend the specific platform and setup — including what it would cost you per month and how I'd structure the weekly drip.

For a members-only site that releases (drips) new videos every week, I’d focus on platforms that handle four things well:

1. Paid subscriptions (monthly/annual)
2. Video hosting or easy video embedding
3. Drip scheduling (“unlock Week 2 after 7 days”)
4. Member management + email notifications

The best choices depend on how you want the experience to feel:

Best overall: Kajabi

kajabi.com

Best for: A serious paid video membership business.

Pros:

• Excellent drip-course controls
• Built-in website, checkout, email marketing, and automation
• Good for subscriptions, courses, and upsells
• Polished member experience

Cons:

• More expensive than simpler tools

Pick Kajabi if you want your membership to become a real business with funnels, email sequences, and multiple products. Learning Revolution

Best for video courses: Thinkific

thinkific.com

Best for: A structured weekly video curriculum.

Pros:

• Strong course organization
• Lesson drip schedules
• Progress tracking
• Good student experience

Cons:

• Less focused on marketing automation than Kajabi

Great if your membership is basically: “Every Monday, members get the next lesson.” Learning Revolution

Best community + videos: Mighty Networks

mightynetworks.com

Best for: Memberships where interaction matters.

Pros:

• Community feed
• Courses
• Events/live sessions
• Mobile app options

Cons:

• Not as course-centric as Thinkific

Choose this if members should talk to each other, not just watch videos. Mighty Networks

Best budget/simple option: Podia

podia.com

Best for: Solo creators who want to launch quickly.

Pros:

• Simple setup
• Memberships + courses + downloads
• Less technical overhead

Cons:

• Fewer advanced features than Kajabi

Best if you already have WordPress: MemberPress

memberpress.com

Best for: Maximum control.

Pros:

• Works inside your own WordPress site
• Flexible access rules
• Good for complex membership setups

Cons:

• You manage more pieces yourself (hosting, themes, plugins)

My quick recommendation

• You’re selling a premium video membership ($20–$200+/month): Kajabi
• You’re teaching a weekly program/course: Thinkific
• You want a Netflix + community feel: Mighty Networks
• You want the cheapest path to validate an idea: Podia
• You already have a WordPress website: MemberPress

A common setup I’d choose:

• Platform: Kajabi or Thinkific
• Video: native hosting or vimeo.com embeds
• Payments: Stripe
• Email: platform-native automation

If you tell me your expected subscriber count, monthly price, and whether it’s more “course” or “Netflix library” style, I can narrow it to one or two options.

If your core model is “members pay monthly, and I release a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen for your use case

Uscreen is specifically built around paid video memberships, rather than treating video as just one component of an online-course platform.

You can:

• Charge recurring monthly/annual subscriptions.
• Put videos behind a member login/paywall.
• Create collections/playlists.
• Drip individual videos on a schedule—e.g. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, etc. help.uscreen.tv
• Send an email when a new video becomes available.
• Create different membership tiers with different content access. help.uscreen.tv
• Give members a Netflix-style video library. www.uscreen.tv
• Eventually offer branded iOS/Android/TV apps if your membership gets large enough. www.uscreen.tv

Uscreen currently advertises plans starting at $49/month, though the exact features and pricing depend on the plan. www.uscreen.tv

One important detail: Uscreen's drip timer is based on when someone first accesses the collection, rather than simply a universal calendar date. help.uscreen.tv

So if your model is:

Subscribe → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video...

Uscreen is probably the cleanest solution.

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Kajabi makes more sense if the videos are part of a larger creator/business funnel—for example:

YouTube/Instagram → email list → sales page → membership → courses → coaching → upsells.

Kajabi supports recurring memberships, multiple tiers, gated content, and subscription access natively. www.kajabi.com

It's more of a business/marketing platform that happens to be excellent for memberships, whereas Uscreen is more of a video membership platform.

Podia if you want to keep it simple

Podia is worth considering if you don't need a fancy Netflix-like video experience. It supports hosted video courses, memberships, recurring subscriptions, trials, and different membership plans. help.podia.com

My recommendation: If you tell me roughly how many subscribers you expect (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000), your monthly price, and whether you want a community/chat component, I can narrow this down to the best platform and tell you what I'd actually build the site with.

If your core model is “members subscribe, then get a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

If you're primarily selling videos, I'd choose Uscreen.

It is purpose-built around paid video memberships: you can create subscription plans, gate videos to subscribers, organize videos into collections, and use drip delays to release individual videos over time. help.uscreen.tv

For example:

$29/month membership

• Week 1 → Video 1
• Week 2 → Video 2
• Week 3 → Video 3
• Week 4 → Video 4
• etc.

You can also send an email when a new video unlocks, and Uscreen now has native automations for onboarding, trials, cancellations, re-engagement, and drip campaigns. help.uscreen.tv

Uscreen says its plans start at $49/month. www.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi

I'd pick Kajabi instead if you're thinking of this as more of an education/coaching business than a video library.

Kajabi supports recurring memberships, multiple tiers, courses, community, email marketing, and scheduled/dripped content. www.kajabi.com

It's particularly attractive if you eventually want:

• Weekly videos
• Worksheets/PDFs
• Email sequences
• Community
• Coaching
• Webinars
• Upsells
• Multiple membership tiers

In other words, Uscreen = video business, while Kajabi = creator/education business that happens to include video.

🥉 Circle

Circle is compelling if the community is the product and the videos are part of the membership.

It supports recurring paywalls, multiple membership tiers, courses, discussions, chat, events, and gated spaces. help.circle.so

So I'd use Circle for something like:

$39/month — Private community + weekly training + live Q&A

rather than:

$19/month — Netflix-style library of weekly videos

What I'd choose

If you tell me:

“I have 50–200 videos, I want people to subscribe monthly, and I want each member to receive one new video every Monday.”

I'd go Uscreen.

If you tell me:

“The videos are educational, and I also want a sophisticated email funnel, courses, coaching and upsells.”

I'd go Kajabi.

If you tell me:

“The real value is being part of a private group, with weekly videos and discussion.”

I'd go Circle.

If you give me your rough monthly price ($10/$20/$50/etc.), number of videos, and whether you need a community, I can also compare the actual 2026 costs and transaction fees of the top 3 and tell you which I'd use.

Yes. For “members pay monthly/annually → log in → get a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

If the videos are the actual product, I'd go with Uscreen.

You can create a paid subscription, put videos/collections behind the subscription, and use its drip functionality to release individual videos after a specified number of days. help.uscreen.tv

For example:

Membership: $29/month

• Week 1 → Video 1
• Week 2 → Video 2
• Week 3 → Video 3
• Week 4 → Video 4
• etc.

It also gives you subscription management, multiple membership tiers, community functionality, and native video delivery. help.uscreen.tv

A particularly nice feature is that Uscreen can also automate emails around things like new subscriptions, trials, cancellations, and drip campaigns, so you could have “Your Week 4 video is now available” emails happen automatically. help.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi instead if you're building more of an education/coaching business where the videos are only one component.

Kajabi supports video courses, memberships, communities, marketing, and drip scheduling. You can release modules/lessons on specific dates or a set number of days after purchase. www.kajabi.com

The downside is that it's more of an all-in-one business platform than a purpose-built video membership platform.

🥉 Podia

Podia is worth considering if you want simple and relatively low-friction.

It hosts your videos directly, supports paid subscription plans, and lets you delay course sections based on the number of days after enrollment. help.podia.com

So it's quite capable for:

Subscribe → create account → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video...

It also now has community functionality built in. help.podia.com

What I'd do in your shoes

If you tell me roughly what kind of videos you're selling (fitness, education, music lessons, business training, sermons, cooking, etc.) and your expected monthly price + number of subscribers, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms and what each would cost you, including the payment processing/platform fees.

If your core product is a members-only site where subscribers get a new video every week, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen

For what you're describing, Uscreen is probably the cleanest fit. It's designed specifically around paid video memberships rather than being a course platform that happens to support video. It gives you gated video content, recurring subscriptions, a Netflix-style catalog, community features, and even mobile/TV apps at higher tiers. www.uscreen.tv

Most importantly, its course/collection system lets you set a drip delay on each video—so you can do something like:

Week 1: Video 1
Week 2: Video 2
Week 3: Video 3
Week 4: Video 4
...and so on.

The drip timer can start when the member first accesses the collection, which is useful if people join at different times. www.uscreen.tvhelp.uscreen.tvwww.kajabi.comhelp.circle.so

Current Uscreen pricing starts around $49/month, with higher tiers adding things such as additional functionality and mobile apps. www.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi instead if the videos are really part of a broader educational/business product.

For example:

$29/month membership
→ Week 1 video
→ Week 2 video
→ Week 3 video
→ weekly email
→ downloadable worksheet
→ community
→ upsell to $499 course

Kajabi supports recurring memberships, gated content, automated emails, multiple membership tiers, and scheduled/dripped course content. www.kajabi.com

It also has a particularly useful monthly-enrolling membership model where someone joining in August doesn't automatically get the content from previous months. help.kajabi.com

🥉 Circle

I'd pick Circle if the community is as important as the videos.

You can charge recurring subscriptions through Circle's paywalls and drip course sections either based on enrollment or on specific dates. help.circle.so

So it works well for something like:

Members → weekly video → discussion → Q&A → community → next week's video

My recommendation

If you tell me what kind of videos you're selling (fitness, education, coaching, entertainment, professional training, etc.) and roughly how much you want to charge per month, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms and tell you exactly what I'd build on each one, including approximate monthly cost and how I'd structure the weekly drip.

If your core product is “pay monthly → get a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to these:

🥇 Best overall: Uscreen

Best if video is the main product.

• Built specifically for paid video memberships.
• Members get their own login and gated video library.
• Supports recurring subscriptions and multiple membership tiers. help.uscreen.tvwww.uscreen.tv
• You can drip videos based on enrollment, e.g. Week 1 immediately, Week 2 seven days later, Week 3 fourteen days later. help.uscreen.tv
• Netflix/YouTube-style video experience.
• Can eventually add mobile and TV apps.
• Current plans start at $49/month according to Uscreen. www.uscreen.tvwww.mightynetworks.com

I'd pick this if you're building something like:

“Join my $29/month membership and receive one new training video every Monday, plus access to the previous videos.”

🥈 Best if community is important: Mighty Networks

Mighty is excellent if the videos are only part of the membership and you also want discussion, challenges, events, chat, etc.

It supports scheduled/dripped course content and paid memberships. www.mightynetworks.com

For example:

$39/month membership

• New video every Monday
• Members-only discussion
• Weekly Q&A
• Monthly live workshop
• Resource library

That's a very natural Mighty setup.

🥉 Best for an education/business ecosystem: Kajabi

I'd consider Kajabi if you're also planning to sell courses, coaching, email funnels, landing pages, and other digital products.

It's more of an all-in-one online-business platform than a video-membership-first platform. For a simple weekly video membership, I think Uscreen is the cleaner choice.

My recommendation

For exactly what you described, I'd start with Uscreen. It eliminates a lot of the awkward “website + Vimeo + Stripe + membership plugin + automation” stack because the video hosting, gated access, subscriptions, and membership experience are designed to work together. help.uscreen.tvwww.uscreen.tv

If you tell me (1) roughly how many videos you expect to have, (2) your intended monthly price, and (3) whether members need a community/chat, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and estimate what each would cost you per month.

For a members-only site where people subscribe and receive a new video every week, I’d narrow it to Uscreen, Kajabi, and Memberful.

My top pick: Uscreen

Uscreen is probably the best fit if video is the main product.

• Built specifically around paid video memberships
• Recurring subscriptions and gated video libraries
• Drip scheduling: you can make each video unlock a certain number of days after someone enrolls. help.uscreen.tvhelp.uscreen.tv
• You can have multiple membership tiers
• Members get a Netflix-like video catalog
• Includes community features, email automations, analytics, etc.
• You can eventually add mobile/TV apps if the business grows. help.uscreen.tv

Especially good if your model is:

“Pay $29/month → get Week 1 video immediately → Week 2 next week → Week 3 the following week → etc.”

One important distinction: Uscreen's drip scheduling can be relative to each member's enrollment/access, rather than simply publishing the same video to everyone on a calendar date. help.uscreen.tvhelp.uscreen.tv

#2 Kajabi

Kajabi is better if your videos are part of a broader online education/creator business.

It's strong for:

• Courses
• Memberships
• Email marketing
• Landing pages
• Sales funnels
• Community
• Recurring subscriptions
• Multiple membership tiers

Kajabi explicitly supports recurring memberships and gated content, and its membership architecture is built around modules and lessons. www.kajabi.com

I'd choose Kajabi over Uscreen if you're thinking:

“The videos are one component of my membership business, and I also want sophisticated marketing, courses, email sequences, funnels, and digital products.”

#3 Memberful

Memberful is interesting if you want something simpler and more brand-controlled.

It gives you a branded membership website, subscription plans, gated content, custom domain, checkout, and direct video publishing. memberful.com

The downside for your particular use case is that video drip delivery isn't its standout feature. I'd pick it if you care more about having a straightforward membership website than having a sophisticated video platform.

What I'd choose

For the exact idea you described, I'd start with Uscreen. It removes a lot of the annoying technical pieces—video hosting, subscriber authentication, payments, gated access, content organization and drip delivery—rather than making you stitch together something like WordPress + Stripe + Vimeo + a membership plugin.

If you tell me roughly how much you want to charge per month, how many videos you'll have, and whether subscribers should all get the same weekly video or start their own 8/12/52-week sequence when they join, I can recommend the exact setup and compare the current pricing of the best 3 options.

Yes — for a members-only site where subscribers pay recurring fees and get a new video every week, I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

Uscreen

If the videos themselves are the product, I'd choose Uscreen. It's specifically built around paid video memberships, rather than being a general website builder that happens to support video.

You can put videos behind a subscription, organize them into collections/courses, and set individual videos to unlock a certain number of days after someone enrolls. help.uscreen.tvhelp.kajabi.com

That makes a model like this straightforward:

$19/month → Join → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video → etc.

It also supports community, live streaming, marketing tools, and even branded mobile/TV apps, which gives you room to grow beyond a simple website. help.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi — best if you're selling more than videos

Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if your business will eventually include courses + email marketing + landing pages + community + coaching + multiple membership tiers.

Kajabi supports recurring memberships and scheduled/dripped course content, including releasing content based on how long someone has been a member. www.kajabi.com

It's particularly attractive if you want:

• $29/month basic membership
• $79/month premium membership
• Weekly videos
• Email sequences
• Community
• Upsells
• Courses/downloads
• Sales pages and checkout

all under one roof.

🥉 MemberPress — best if you already use WordPress

MemberPress

This is the option I'd consider if you want your own WordPress website and don't mind managing more technology.

MemberPress can drip entire pages, courses, or individual course items based on a member's registration/purchase date, with frequencies such as days, weeks, or months. help.uscreen.tvwww.kajabi.commemberpress.com

It's powerful, but you'll generally be assembling more pieces yourself than with Uscreen or Kajabi.

What I'd do for your specific idea

If your concept is essentially:

"People subscribe, log into a private site, and receive a new video every week."

I'd rank them:

1. Uscreen — best overall
2. Kajabi — best if you want a broader creator/business platform
3. MemberPress — best if you specifically want WordPress

One important distinction: drip based on each member's signup date is different from publishing a new video every Friday for everyone simultaneously. Uscreen and Kajabi can accommodate different release models, but I'd choose the setup based on which experience you want. help.uscreen.tvhelp.kajabi.com

If you tell me roughly how much you plan to charge per month, how many videos you'll have, and whether you want a community, I can recommend the cheapest/best setup and estimate your monthly software costs.

If your core model is “members pay monthly and get a new video every week”, I’d narrow it to three:

🥇 I'd pick Uscreen

It's designed specifically around paid video memberships, rather than adapting a course platform into one. You can gate videos behind recurring subscriptions, organize them into collections, and manage member access. help.uscreen.tv

That makes a model like this straightforward:

$29/month → Member joins → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → Week 4 video → etc.

It also has marketing, analytics, community features, and options for mobile/TV apps as you grow. www.uscreen.tv

Uscreen

🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if the videos are only one part of a bigger business—for example:

• Weekly training videos
• Email marketing
• Sales funnels
• Courses
• Downloads
• Coaching
• Multiple membership tiers

Kajabi supports recurring memberships and can automatically revoke access when a subscription ends. www.kajabi.com

Kajabi

🥉 Mighty Networks

Choose Mighty Networks if you want the membership to feel more like a private club/community than a video library. It has courses with scheduled/dripped lessons, member discussions, events, messaging, and native mobile apps. www.mightynetworks.com

Mighty Networks

My recommendation

For “I create one premium video per week and subscribers get access as long as they keep paying”, I'd rank them:

1. Uscreen — 9/10
2. Kajabi — 8.5/10
3. Mighty Networks — 8/10

One important distinction: if by “drip” you mean every member gets Video #1 one week after joining, Video #2 two weeks after joining, etc., rather than everyone gets the same new video every Monday, tell me—that changes which platform I'd recommend.

Yes. For “members pay monthly → they log in → a new video unlocks every week”, I’d narrow it to three platforms:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

If your business is essentially “Netflix, but for my niche/content”, I'd choose Uscreen. It's specifically designed around subscription video businesses, with a video library, memberships, community, live streaming, and even branded mobile/TV apps. www.uscreen.tv

The experience could be:

Subscribe → Create account → Welcome video → Week 1 unlocks → Week 2 unlocks → Week 3 unlocks → etc.

That's a better fit than trying to bolt video onto a generic membership website.

🥈 Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if the videos are part of a broader course/coaching business.

For example:

$29/month membership
→ New training every Monday
→ Weekly video
→ PDF worksheet
→ Member discussion
→ Email reminder
→ Occasional live Q&A

Kajabi specifically supports releasing content on a schedule and can also prevent new members from seeing previous material if you want a “start from Week 1 when you join” model. www.kajabi.com

Its big advantage is the business/marketing side—landing pages, email, offers, funnels, payments, etc. Current published pricing starts around $143/month for the relevant Kajabi tier, so it's considerably more expensive than some alternatives. www.kajabi.comwww.mightynetworks.com

🥉 Circle

I'd go with Circle if your real product is the community, with videos being the weekly content that keeps people engaged.

You can have separate spaces for things like:

• 🎥 Weekly Training
• 💬 Member Discussion
• 🏆 Challenges
• 📅 Live Events
• 📚 Resource Library

Circle's strength is the community experience rather than being a video-streaming platform. www.kajabi.comwww.mightynetworks.com

What I'd choose based on your description

If you tell me “I have a library of videos and people pay me every month to access them,” → Uscreen.

If you tell me “I'm teaching people something and the videos are organized into a program/course,” → Kajabi.

If you tell me “I want members interacting with each other and the videos are part of that community,” → Circle.

One other option worth considering is Mighty Networks, particularly if you want a strong community component alongside courses and subscriptions. www.mightynetworks.com

If you give me your expected price (e.g. $19/mo, $49/mo, $99/mo), number of subscribers, and whether you want a community/chat, I can tell you which one I'd actually use and what the monthly cost would look like at 100, 500, and 1,000 members.

If your core product is “members pay monthly, then get a new video every week”, I’d shortlist these:

My #1: Uscreen

If you're essentially building a Netflix-style private video library, I'd pick Uscreen. It's specifically designed around video memberships, subscriptions, and recurring revenue rather than adapting a generic course platform to videos. www.uscreen.tv

My #2: Kajabi

I'd choose Kajabi if you also want email marketing, landing pages, checkout, courses, community, upsells, and automation under one roof. It supports recurring memberships and content dripping, including releasing content over time. www.kajabi.com

One particularly useful feature: Kajabi can do “monthly enrolling” memberships, where someone who joins in August doesn't automatically get July's content—they start with the content corresponding to when they joined. help.kajabi.com

My #3: Podia

If you want to get this launched without a lot of complexity, Podia is compelling. It combines website, checkout, courses, community, memberships, email, and digital products. Its current membership system supports paid plans and different tiers. www.podia.com

For your specific model, I'd probably do:

$29–49/month → members log in → Week 1 video → Week 2 unlocks → Week 3 unlocks → etc.

If you want new members to start at Week 1, regardless of when they join, Kajabi/Podia-style course dripping is attractive.

If you want “the video of the week” and everyone sees the same new video each Friday, that's a slightly different model, and I'd lean toward Uscreen.

If you tell me (1) roughly how many subscribers you expect, (2) your monthly price, and (3) whether you want a community/chat component, I can narrow it down to the best 1–2 options and compare the actual costs.

For your specific model — people subscribe, log in, and get a new video every week — I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: Uscreen

If the video itself is the product, I'd choose Uscreen.

It is built specifically around paid video memberships: subscribers get a Netflix-style video library, subscriptions, gated content, community features, and potentially branded mobile/TV apps. www.uscreen.tv

So your experience could be:

Join → Pay $29/month → Create account → Week 1 video → Week 2 video → Week 3 video → ...

You can also have a growing library rather than forcing everyone through a traditional "course." That's a meaningful distinction if you're essentially running a weekly video subscription rather than selling a finite course. www.uscreen.tv

Uscreen's current pricing information shows a Starter tier around $49/month, with higher tiers for larger memberships and apps. www.uscreen.tv

🥈 Kajabi

I'd pick Kajabi if your videos are part of a bigger creator business — e.g. videos + email marketing + courses + downloads + coaching + sales funnels.

Kajabi explicitly supports recurring memberships and dripping content on a schedule, including weekly releases. It can also do "monthly enrolling" memberships where a new subscriber doesn't automatically receive the older content that existed before they joined. www.kajabi.comhelp.kajabi.com

That last feature could be really useful depending on what you mean by "drip."

🥉 Circle

Circle is particularly attractive if you want the site to feel like a private club/community, rather than simply a video library.

Its paid plans include courses, video lessons, drip content, membership tiers, discussions, events, live streams, and payments. The Professional plan is currently listed at $89/month. circle.so

One important question

There are actually two very different ways to structure your weekly video subscription:

A. Everyone gets the same new video every Monday

Member joins → gets Week 1 → next Monday gets Week 2 → everyone stays on the same schedule.

B. Each member starts their own 12-week journey

Alice joins today → Video 1 today → Video 2 next week
Bob joins three weeks later → Video 1 when he joins → Video 2 a week later

If you're doing B, I'd lean Kajabi because its monthly-enrolling/drip functionality is particularly relevant. www.kajabi.comhelp.kajabi.com

If you're doing A, and the core product is essentially "Netflix for my niche", I'd lean Uscreen.

If you tell me what kind of videos you're selling, roughly how much you'll charge per month, and whether members should see the old videos, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and tell you exactly how I'd set it up.