How Can You Make Money with Online Video? : Work for Hire Video Production

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When I attend different online video and digital events I'm always on the prowl looking for new ways that independent producers can make money with video on the web. While I was at Digital Hollywood I ran into Dave Toole from MEDIAmobz.

MEDIAmobz brings together buyers and producers in a one-of-a-kind marketplace to get videos made at an affordable price.

With the explosive proliferation of user-created content converging with the increasing growth of local search advertising video proves to be a compelling vehicle for communicating a business's message or story and MediaMobz is uniquely positioned to deliver on that need.

Providing a full suite of online services MEDIAmobz facilitates bidding on media production jobs, project tracking and management, as well as a private collaborative process to get high-quality videos produced.

Business owners and/or advertisers (called buyers on MediaMobz) can get the word out about their services and products with the help of short video ads that can be created by video producers in an affordable way.

Producers on MediaMobz can get paid for their creative talents as MediaMobz brings together video producers with a wide range of skills and backgrounds, from television professionals to amateur videobloggers there is opportunity to connect with buyers.

Once a connection with a buyer and producer is made and money exchanged MediaMobz get paid a commission.

Sounds pretty fair to me.

When Do You Need a Content Delivery Network?

When Do You Need a Content Delivery Network?

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I had the chance to speak with Perry Wu CEO & Co-Founder of Bitgravity at Digital Hollywood and I asked him about the threshold of entry for Independent Producers in the online video content delivery network arena.

He told me about the different online video networks that are using Bitgravity and how some of them started out small and then grew large.

If you have more than one video series that is delivering over one million views per month from your own site you might want to think about taking control of your video content as well as your online video advertising inventory.

Why Should You Update Your Content on a Regular Basis?

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Now I've never been one to update my web series content on a regular basis but it's something I'm always wanting to do. I just haven't found a cost effective way of doing it yet. But now that I've found a new Rev Share outlet I'm more motivated than ever to come up with a weekly version of French Maid TV so that I can reap all the benefits of fresh content.

I ran into Michael Berkley Co-Founder and CEO of SplashCast and he gave me the scoop on Rev Share for Online Video in widgets for Social Media sites.

SplashCast is distributing content and sharing revenue for Sony BMG, Warner Bros., Universal and MTV as well as bloggers, video bloggers and anyone who already has compelling content with distribution. There is one caveat: SpalshCast needs to be able to sell advertising against your content. If they can find a brand that is willing to buy your video advertising inventory then it's a go. If the sales peeps at SplashCast don't think they can sell your video content to an advertiser they won't take it on.

Keep in mind you could come to SplashCast with an advertiser yourself and they might help you distribute.

If you do strike a deal with SplashCast you could get a standard 50% / 50% Rev share deal or as high as 70% / 30% if you are selling the advertising.

SplashCast is looking for video content that is episodic in nature and already has a meaningful audience with 100,000s of views that they can help turn into viral videos.

THE BIG TIP: The shelf life for video content inside a widget on social networks is very short unless the content is refreshed on a regular consistent basis. Unless you create and post new content on a regular basis people will drop your widget from their site.

There are other rev share deals for video out there and if you have one that you would like to chat with me about please let me know.

Are You Ready To License Your Content?

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If someone emailed you today and said, "We would like to license your content." are you ready?

"You bet your ass I am Tim"

Are you really? Do you have all your talent agreements together? Do you have all your music cue sheets done? Location and property releases? Do you have all the paperwork that proves you own your content?

Are you ready to track multiple licenses for your content on a global scale?

Michael Gorman from Image Span was speaking at Digital Hollywood Building Blocks in San Jose and had a moment to tell me about LicenseStream a new web service platform for content owners (enterprise or creators) that allows buyers and sellers an easy way to license and syndicate content safely.

The result? Dramatically lower costs, faster time-to-market for all types of digital media – images, audio, video and text – and no liability.

LicenseStream has a licensing and billing platform to manage your whole media transaction cycles of: rights, permissions, pricing assignment, license generation, commerce management, royalty and billing settlement for existing and newly-created media content.

"To license content previously required arduous, person-to-person negotiations that often took weeks and months. Content creators had to contend with non-standardized licensing statements, manage their own invoicing, billing and collections, forcing them to put as much effort into the business of licensing the content as they had put into creating it. Our solution leaves them much more time to create. In addition, we are opening an array of transaction markets that allow the unrestricted flow of digital content between them."

LicenseStream even has a tracking code associated with your content.

How Can You Organize Your Videos?

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Say you have a Internet Webisode Series kind of thingy that you've posted on YouTube using a cool tool like TubeMogul. ( I ran into Brett Wilson today and he said the boys back at the shop read my blog so shout out to the TubeMogul guys!) Your Video is now everywhere and someone comes across episode 7 of one of your videos. How can they easily find the rest of your series in an orderly fashion?

Well, I ran into the guys at Unknown Vector at Digital Hollywood Building Blocks San Jose and they have a product called uvlayer. They told me that it will help people search and organize video content and share it with friends.