{"id":912,"date":"2016-05-26T01:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/?p=912"},"modified":"2019-03-19T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:03:21","slug":"amazon-launches-amazon-video-direct-a-video-upload-payment-service-for-video-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2016\/05\/26\/amazon-launches-amazon-video-direct-a-video-upload-payment-service-for-video-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Launches Amazon Video Direct &#8211; A Video Upload &#038; Payment Service for Video Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-on-black.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1012\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-on-black.png\" alt=\"amazon on black\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/amazon-takes-on-youtube-with-new-rival-amazon-video-direct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/amazon-takes-on-youtube-with-new-rival-amazon-video-direct\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon has launched Amazon Video Direct, which allows video creators to directly upload their videos and be paid as their content is watched. While the business model and market differs from YouTube, AVD could become a big player in the general online video marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmakers will be able to distribute their movies through Amazon using this service.<\/p>\n<p>According to Music Business Worldwide,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon Video Direct (AVD) gives uploaders four options for their content:<\/p>\n<p>Included in Prime Video, available to tens of millions of Prime users;<br \/>\nAvailable as an add-on subscription through the Streaming Partners Program;<br \/>\nOffered as a one-time rental or a one-time purchase;<br \/>\nAvailable to all Amazon customers, ad-supported<br \/>\nAccording to Variety, the Prime Video option pays creators a 15 cents per-hour royalty fee in the US \u2013 or 6 cents per-hour in other territories \u2013 up to $75,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon will also pay partners 50% of the retail price for one-off purchases and rentals.<\/p>\n<p>As for ad-supported, that follows the YouTube model, with a 55% share of ad revenue paid out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will be interested to see how Amazon Video Direct develops&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-video-direct-image.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-video-direct-image-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-video-direct-image-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/amazon-video-direct-image.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/amazon-takes-on-youtube-with-new-rival-amazon-video-direct\/ Amazon has launched Amazon Video Direct, which allows video creators to directly upload their videos and be paid as their content is watched. While the business model and market differs from YouTube, AVD could become a big player in the general online video marketplace. Filmmakers will be able to distribute their movies through Amazon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2016\/05\/26\/amazon-launches-amazon-video-direct-a-video-upload-payment-service-for-video-creators\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[163,166,152,165,167,168,164,21],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-media-blitz-publicity-articles","tag-amazon","tag-movie-distribution","tag-online-video","tag-online-video-distribution","tag-streaming-movies","tag-streaming-video","tag-video-distribution","tag-youtube","nodate","item-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amazon Launches Amazon Video Direct - A Video Upload &amp; Payment Service for Video Creators - Media Blitz Publicity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2016\/05\/26\/amazon-launches-amazon-video-direct-a-video-upload-payment-service-for-video-creators\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amazon Launches Amazon Video Direct - A Video Upload &amp; Payment Service for Video Creators - Media Blitz Publicity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/amazon-takes-on-youtube-with-new-rival-amazon-video-direct\/ Amazon has launched Amazon Video Direct, which allows video creators to directly upload their videos and be paid as their content is watched. 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