Veiko Herne

Early 2008 I setup a website for Independent Media Distribution based on open source from FFMPEG and PHPMotion. Sure, I had to fix some bugs and make little bit development with it, but as hosted in dedicated FFMPEG servers, it could provide much better quality anyone can get from Youtube hosting.

As I have previously produced music, we made a good return selling CD´s but after Internet era, MP3 was free to download. So having sold 1M records early 80ties, it made you a millionaire. Today, having over 1M downloads you will start to beg for the food if not working on day job.
And producing music videos haven´t been viable option to make living nowadays. Seems to be fun as supporting Google to make money out of us? Do you know that even from AdSense programs Google is taking 80% of commission. So we, Internet Marketeers are making our sites interesting searching for new key phrases, establishing our readers and we are selling it back to Google! Google takes money by selling AdWords and for minimum 5 cents we will get paid only 1 cent. Is that we can call a fair trade?

My idea with the site was to offer still a decent return by selling those to mobiles. Even mobile operators are greedy taking 50% out of it (decreasing as in UK I’m able to get 75/25% deal using PayForIt), its much better than using Google to show your work!

Google is taking your Youtube and Myspace content free of charge and selling commercials there. At least going to radio or TV channel, they respect copyrights and pay you royalties which Google is not paying as we are uploading our creation there for free!

But instead supporting my efforts to change it, why are you are still uploading your videos to Youtube rather than TopIndieMedia.com?

I have asked several times from Independent Artists and producers, are they interested to have their content for me to promote as offering global mobile phone distribution and integration with Yahoo media search engine but usually the answer has been that they will pass this opportunity this time.

So I have the only one Punk video from Belfast to show there. Sure, there must be more Independent Producers interested to join?

My business idea was simple to offer some kind of return by producing a music and videos. Having 50 cents sale price for mobile and 50/50 profit share will make the investment of $2K to produce the clip back from few thousands of mobile downloads.

 

Sure there is lot of business issues to be solved before we could make a decent return but having something from mobile sales will be better than nothing from Google. Would you think so?

 

I need at least 40 independents to join to this site to make it profitable business model for all of us. I cant start to produce music again when I haven’t first setup viable distribution channel for it. Making something to radio for producers points will keep you in hunger. And I’m not interested to rip you off, we need to cover the site and mobile billing systems monthly costs only. Its currently around 600 pounds for global markets and 300 pounds for UK or US only. In UK, we have better payout rates than US. All other countries are still thinking 50/50 deal with mobile operator and content ditsributor is fair trade.

 

So, why do you not want to join for Independent Artists Distribution Community and give this site a chance?