I'm really happy that you've made it work. A year ago or so I was really starting to doubt whether anybody would make any money except the big boys (again) - particularly with all the new hardware and closed distribution channels emerging. So it's very exciting that there are indie producers making hundreds of thousands. And that you at Blip have succeeded while always trying to do the right thing. Great work! :)
Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 9 Apr 2010, at 16:26, mikehudack wrote: > Thought I'd chime in about this. > > Blip.tv's mission is to make independent shows sustainable. We do > this by providing what we call services of scale: technology, > workflow automation, distribution and business development and ad > sales. The theory is that most independent shows are too small to > have all those things in house. So what we do is we aggregate a > bunch of shows together (about 50,000 at last count) and provide > those services to all of them at the same time. > > Our Dashboard is a key part of this (check out http://blip.tv/tour/ > if you're not familiar). Our sales team is, too. We have a full > nationwide sales team -- seven people -- plus two people in London. > Our sales team is in London, Chicago, San Francisco and LA, Texas > and New York. They sell bundles of shows to clients like General > Motors, AT&T, Samsung, Chili's, Best Buy and a bunch of others. We > run those ads across our network and split the revenue 50/50 with > show creators. > > We pay quarterly. This quarter we sent out a record number of checks > and PayPal payments. Overall we sent out 25% more money than we did > last quarter. A lot of smaller shows are getting smaller checks -- > $25, $100, $200... and bigger shows are getting really big checks. > Tens of thousands of dollars. There are now shows that use blip that > are making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. > > We're still at the beginning, but we're at the point now where there > are more than a few shows out there with full-time creators. People > who have quit their jobs and are making shows full-time. And there > will be more next month, and more the month after that. > > We're really excited about what's happening. We're seeing a new > industry emerge. Television networks and big studios have dominated > video creation for sixty years -- ever since NBC debuted at the 1939 > Worlds Fair. For the first time in generations it's possible for > talented and driven folks to set out on their own and create their > masterpieces and do it for a living. > > Let me know if you guys have any questions about our services, ad > sales, payments, whatever. Happy to answer any and all questions > you've got -- skeptical or not. We're an open book. The only thing I > can't talk about is how much specific shows made. That's their > confidential information and up to them to decide whether or not to > share. > > Yours, > > Mike > Co-founder & CEO, blip.tv > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> > wrote: > > > > This blog post says blip.tv sent a bunch of checks to show > creators. I > > know some folks here are also Youtube partners. It would be really > > great if independent producers are really getting paid. > > http://theblog.blip.tv/post/505915181/this-week-is-check-week-at-blip-tv-were-sending > > > > I wonder if you can post shows on Youtube and blip...getting paid > for > > both. Are they exclusive? > > I also cant believe that ads actually work. > > > > If anyone here has experience as partners on blip/youtube, love to > > hear more info. > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > http://ryanishungry.com > > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > 917 371 6790 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
