Amazon has entered the self-service video space big time. Now content creators can share ad revenue, join Prime's catalogue, distribute videos worldwide to Amazon's video hub subscribers (tens of millions)... and make money. Great time to be a producer. http://www.tubefilter.com/2016/05/10/amazon-video-direct-service-allows-...
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feels like a "Ponzi" scheme for online content :)
Hey, it's Amazon...
Isn't that basically just another youtube?
Basically, but it looks like it's more competitive in some ways ... but very similar to youtube red and all the stuff. Point is... more avenues for producers to create and distribute indie programming. All part of the growing sea change in distribution. and yes... Amazon will make tons of money... but distributors always make most of the money... they always will. Point is... channels are growing for indies. It's a good thing.
I personally are a bit disappointed by their payment plan. Sure they provide a strong platform with global reach, but keeping 50% of revenue from sales and rentals seems unreasonably high and six cent per streamed hour (!) of content is ridiculous. Amazon had the chance to really get ahead in the highly competitive market for premium web video, but this meagre offering will not get many top creators to move from YouTube to Amazon. Re-financing your investment in premium web content is still the #1 problem for producers and creators, so Amazon would have had a unique chance to fill this gap.
Axel Ricke ▬ there is a solution to that, which I call the T-Shirt marketing scheme. I spent like $800 with the whole ad-words and all that, ended up with one person whom was interesting and talking to me on e-mail. It is an understatement to call the whole arena competitive. The services are well adapted to do the work , yet making it work is well like I would be amazed if they can keep it in operation at 0.50 ~ that is ROI on Lottery and they do well. Amazing works are produced and run millions of views on You Tube, but dare the not get into what it takes to distribute proceeds from ad-banners. It can be done but I would want a cover on the Disclosure that says some strange things.