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Well here is another direction I recently learned about: Amazon Prime Video Direct: https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/help?topicId=G201978440 https://videodi
by jhallenworld 6y ago
Well here is another direction I recently learned about: Amazon Prime Video Direct:
https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/help?topicId=G201978440 https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/help?topicId=G201978440
I found one YouTube creator who moved his videos to Vimeo on Demand and then to Prime Video Direct. I think you can choose to require viewers pay for your video, or have them included for free for Prime members, where the pay is $.06 / hour of viewing (it used to be $.15 / hour).
Anyway, it's an interesting alternative for content creators, as long as their videos are high quality. The pay is certainly much better than YouTube, so I have a lot of sympathy for this route. Plus it's like YouTube Premium in that there are no ads.
I'm not sure if Amazon will actively promote these videos, so I suspect YouTube remains king for discovery.
Here are the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CountryHouseGent https://www.youtube.com/user/CountryHouseGent
https://www.amazon.com/Travels-by-Narrowboat/dp/B07S6CK8MW https://www.amazon.com/Travels-by-Narrowboat/dp/B07S6CK8MW
- bagacrap 6y agohow much do content creators on YouTube get paid when premium users watch their videos?
- donmcronald 6y agoWhat kind of money is that for the space? Assuming a 10 minute video where you want to make $100 you need 100k views. $100 / $.006 per hour = 16667 hours. 16667 hours * 6 10 minute views per hour = 100000. Incidentally, Cloudflare Stream charges the same rates for serving video ($1 per 1000 minutes). Any idea what kind of money a YouTuber would make off 100k views? Does something like Cloudflare's offering make a suitable backup where they could eat the cost of serving video temporarily if YouTube kicks them off? I think it's a really hard problem because serving video is so expensive. YouTube must be a huge money pit.
- jhallenworld 6y agoWait, it's .06 not .006 per hour, so 10K views of a 10 minute for $100. Wow, serving video is expensive. I had no idea it was $.06 / hour. I presume Amazon and YouTube have their own CDN or something.
- ryan29 6y agoOh yeah. My bad. I got my degree in math from Verizon. Getting paid $1000 per 100k views sounds ok. On the paying side I'd hate to end up on the hook for a video that goes viral and gets a million views. Keep in mind that Cloudflare is making a profit on that and Amazon, Google probably have lower costs than Cloudflare. Still, it has to be a huge money pit to host that stuff.
- exadeci 6y agoI wouldn't call Amazon a better choice.