Amazon Takes on YouTube and Others, Opening Video Platform to All Creators

DLD said:
Do you or does Amazon have ads running every few minutes or at the opening?

YouTube will vary, depending upon a channel. Some use pop-ups, some hard ads. IMO, super-short (5 seconds and under ads) are feasible but, just from being a viewer, I know I will often skip a video entirely if I have to watch a 15-sec ad that I have no interest in. Daily Motion will frequently run a 30-sec ad every 5 minutes and, likewise, I will often close the window rather than watch the ad.
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I have prime and ads enabled. Out of the 55,000 views only 330 of them were played with ads, all the rest through prime membership.
 
Greg_E said:
So actually, what you are doing is advertising your pilot... and getting paid to make that advertisement. When looked at like this, you seem to have a no lose situation. If it is popular enough, maybe Amazon will feed you the money to produce it, they are producing original content just like the other services. Getting in on the ground floor may turn out to be a huge advantage for you.
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Yep exactly. Plus Amazon award a million dollar bucket every month to top 100 content creators. I've no idea as an early adopter if my views are good in the grand scheme of things, but I know they also take into account customer feedback and we've been getting lots of reviews so fingers crossed!
 
mrl72 said:
I have prime and ads enabled. Out of the 55,000 views only 330 of them were played with ads, all the rest through prime membership.
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A belated thanks.

IMO, at some point, the revenues will be flat lining while the number of content creators will keep going up and up. At that point, Amazon will have a decision to make on whether to keep pumping more money into the creator pool, signing their top independents to separate deals, etc.

At the same time, others (YouTube Red, Hulu, Vimeo) have already joined or will be joining the game en force.
 
A bunch of artists (and their lawyers) are not suing YouTube per se but trying to force Congress to rewrite the copyright laws, which currently give a streamer a high degree of protection with regards to what type of works its channels are allowed to exhibit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/taylor-swift-paul-mccartney-music-195659716.html?ref=gs

This is pretty big because, while YT will share some revenues with the official copyright holders, it makes a lot of money off the de facto pirated material (and, naturally, cat videos). This move aims to force streamers to verify and then shut down any clip to which a particular channel does not hold the legal rights. If so, this will hit the streamers revenue side big time and also enable the copyright holders to negotiate for a bigger slice of the revenues. And it is likely to cause a shift in the generation of streaming content (cats will be protected).
 
Youtube already has an automated content matching system, I know for a fact it works damn fast and damn good. Someone wouldn't listen to my advice and the channel at work got shut down for 6 months because we streamed (private test stream) something that matched a Warner Bros. content match. Boom the stream was taken down and channel locked up so no streaming, no long content (owned or not), etc. Messed up our news class because they were streaming their newscasts.
 
But it doesn't seem to be working consistently. There's a 2014 Semper Opera performance of "Czardasfürstin" with Netrebko and Flores that one can find in several places but any upload in 720p gets taken down quickly and the entire channel shut down.

Unless it is originated in Russia.
 
Well, we broke 100,000 views in just over a month. 120,000 to be exact. $1,400 in revenue. Distribution-wise the films are getting more views in Europe with Germany taking over 45% of viewership.

With these sorts of numbers it gives me some ammo to approach potential sponsors/investors for future episodes of my series. This is all good stuff. Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed I'm in the top 100 uploaded videos in June and get some of that $1mil bonus. Not holding my breath though!
 
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