Distribution for a non-profit world affairs program?

M

mrWr0ng

Well-known member
I work for a non-profit called the World Affaiirs Council ( www.itsyourworld.org ) and my job pretty much is shooting their programs (a speaker comes in, talks for half an hour, then answers questions for half an hour), capturing, editing and distribution.

My boss is leaving, which means some new responsibilities fall onto my shoulders, such as scheduling my shoots, arranging them with our other shooters, but most importantly, finding new avenues for distribution to get the videos out to a wider audience.

Can someone give me some tips on how to market video or how to look for distributors? I'm absolutely in the dark on this - if I have a camera and people in front of me, I can light it, film it, edit it, score it and put it to DVD and online media to get it out, but I have absolutely no idea on how to find people to send it to and how to build distributor relationships.

Can we talk about that? :violin:
 
for sale or just get it to the people who would want to see it? internal or external distrobution. says there are 10,000 members or something like that.
 
We distribute to Google Video, Akimbo, Fora.TV, our own website (real media, ugh), DVD for internal purposes, and The California Channel. C-Span occasionally picks up our programs and we were trying to get Comcast Video on Demand to pick us up but our media consultant disappeared before that came to fruition.

Mostly just looking for additional outlets, external distribution. We get some big name speakers come in, like Barbara Boxer was here, George Lucas, the President of Lithuania a few weeks ago, CEOs of Adobe, Google.org and lots of Ambassadors, Princes, journalists and authors.

We talked to PBS (supposedly, it wasbefore I started) and they said they would need additional cameras for our programs, minimum 2-camera shoots which I will push for if that's something that will help us with distribution.
 
Metacafe is a good one, they are paying now as well. I just signed up with a rep there. They are trying to be legit i guess. Though i know their place for pr0n really. LOL.

If the topics are so current it seems like TV is the only way because we cant watch a dvd about a talk from 5 months ago. Gotta get back into talks on the comcast thing i think, as well as the PBS.

this is in the SF Bay area? have you tried Kron 4? they have no programming at all on their HD station.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top