Does this kind of website exist ?

[DominiqueBray]

Hello

I wonder if there is any website that hosts your videos (like Dailymotion, Youtube and so on) but on which people must see an advertisement before the video starts. So people can watch your cartoons freely but they pay it seeing the advertisements, like with tv channels.

Does this kind of website exist ? And do you think a little studio could live just with it ?

I think this would be the most fair system, because the more people like your cartoons and see them, the more you get money, no importance if you are a big company or a debbuting little studio. It would also free studios from problems like : pay a society to distribute its DVD's, loose money due to piracy, find some tv channels that want to buy broadcast-rights...

I hope this exists.
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[byanfu]

I believe that Revver does just that, but they put the commercial at the end, and if someone clicks on the ad you make money

http://one.revver.com/revver

[Touched]

Revver.com has something like this. They pay per view, with you getting the money after any month where it exceeds $20. I can't confirm this too well, because I have 1 video up there, but it's only gotten 87 views, and that adds up to $0.27.

Atomfilms.com has an offer to review your film and decide whether they think it's good enough to pay royalties for. Not the same as pure advertising-driven pay, but it's something to consider.

A quick calculation based on the Revver statistics for my 1 video indicates that if the amounts scale up the same, then my highest-viewed video on YouTube (3561 views) would only give me $11.05. Not enough to live on, I'm afraid. Maybe if you have a lot of videos, and all of them get a lot of views.

[DominiqueBray]

So with this website you get 1$ every 323 views.... What a shame, it is far too little...

Let's imagine you work three years to make a 20 episodes cartoon series. If you use this system and 100 000 people watch the whole 20 episodes (2,000,000 views!), which is something, this will only give you 6 206$, which is ridiculous...

I am sure this can work better, maybe this needs to develop. If a tv channel can get millions of $ each month, putting advertisements between tv programs to buy the broadcast-rights of these programs, a "free video-on-demand web tv" should be able to give more than just 0.0031$ per view...


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[Touched]

Yeah, but at least it's non-exclusive, so you're free to upload it or show it anywhere else as well, and I believe there are some other sites that offer royalties as well. I'll have to check my list. I was given a list of maybe 30 sites to upload my last client's animation to, and I seem to remember another paid besides Revver and Atomfilms. Perhaps with enough sites showing the episodes, it might add up to something less poor.

Also, Atomfilms' version is a little different -- they only pay if they think the content is worth a contract (again, non-exclusive). See here for their info:
http://www.atomfilms.com/make_money.jsp
They admit that their payments are low for the majority of people:
"That means that a lot of people only earn enough to buy a few drinks. But many earn hundreds of dollars, some earn thousands of dollars, and our most successful creators have made tens of thousands — even hundreds of thousands of dollars — through AtomFilms."

I take these sites to be essentially the CaféPress of video. Does anyone make a living from CaféPress?

EDIT: I see Atomfilms also offers a more standard funding model if you pitch your series idea and they like it:
http://www.atomfilms.com/film_pitch_upload.jsp

[heyvern]

I heard that youtube was also going to offer a portion of money made from videos posted. I guess based on the advertising that appears.

-vern

[DominiqueBray]

Are there some new things ?
I just noticed a new one : MegaVideo , I don't like it because you have to buy a MegaUpload premium account to use it.
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