It costs 2 pps to promote your OWN video. If you promote somebody else's video, then that's just 1 pp.

Ahh ! Thank you !!

Ah, I didn't we could promote our own videos. I thought we could only beg.

Hang on, how long have you been a member again?

The toaster knew, and it's been mentioned more than a few times in sift talk...

You can only promote another video is you have a GOLD STAR ????!!!!!
Huh ??!!!
WTF

The list of Star powers is linked from the FAQ, it's like a reward for posting lots of vids.

It used to be more of a big deal prior to vs5.0, since a standard member with less than silver star could only ever use star points for *beg (many of the best videos end up in beggar's canyon ).

Now you can gift them too, and a gift of two pp's and a profile comment of "please self promote this vid because I can't" is as good as a promote (Or, alternatively, a gift of a single pp to a gold star and a comment of please please please promote this other vid).

..But when you get a silver star you can do a quality, which is more powerful than a promote.