TFC Tidbit of the Day 4- Considerations for choosing a platform
Some platforms can be accessed via Self Distribution (e.g. Youreeeka or Maxcast) while others can only be accessed via an aggregator (e.g. Netflix, and iTunes, which at the moment is by far the greatest revenue generating platform in the digital distribution space). Some aggregators are better than others and some distributors and aggregators take lower fees than others. Choosing the best platform/portal for your film must be done with care and must also take into account the type of film it is and its overall release plan.
Much of this information can be found within our Digital Distribution Guide, available to our members. For this week, you can gain access to the full Guide by contributing $35 to our IndieGoGo campaign.
Orly Ravid June 30th, 2010
Posted In: Digital Distribution, Distribution Platforms
Tags: Digital Distribution, digital distribution guide, independent film, indiegogo, iTunes, Maxcast, Netflix, self distribution, TFC, The Film Collaborative, Youreeeka
TFC Tidbit of the Day 2-Evaluating a Platform
A good thing to find out is the extent to which any given platform or distributor licensing to platforms have marketing tools and/or commitments in place. Will doing a deal with them be like having your film in the basement of a crap dvd store in a strip mall in Iowa (no offense to Iowans), or, will it be like having it on the shelves facing out in a big chain with some advertising, or will it be somewhere in between? Not all distributors and aggregators market films well or even at all so choose carefully or have a back-up marketing plan.
Much of this information can be found within our Digital Distribution Guide, available to our members. For this week, you can gain access to the full Guide by contributing $35 to our IndieGoGo campaign.
Orly Ravid June 28th, 2010
Posted In: Digital Distribution, Distribution Platforms
Tags: Digital Distribution, digital distribution guide, digital platforms, independent film, indiegogo, TFC, The Film Collaborative
TFC Tidbit of the Day 1-Choosing a Digital Platform
In this tidbit series, we hope to give good insight into the world of digital distribution in a way that is helpful to the filmmaker.
Digital platforms should be treated like online visual media stores, not distributors. For this reason, one should be very mistrustful if a company asks for exclusive license rights. Even when dealing with aggregators, they should only have exclusive rights to get the film onto specific platforms and at most they can ask you to follow specific windows in handling other platforms (By way of comparison, such a request from a brick-and-mortar video store such as Blockbuster would be occasional at best, and then they would pay a lot for that and it would only be for a short window of time, such as six (6) months).
Much of this information can be found within our Digital Distribution Guide, available to our members. For this week, you can gain access to the full Guide by contributing $35 to our IndieGoGo campaign.
Orly Ravid June 27th, 2010
Posted In: Digital Distribution, Distribution Platforms
Tags: Digital Distribution, digital distribution guide, digital platforms, independent film, indiegogo, TFC, TFC tidbit of the day, The Film Collaborative