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A company that makes outdoor sports equipment has contacted me and asked me if I would be willing to make review videos for their products. I have received these offers before from other companies, but never responded because they were for products that I am not interested in. This company however makes products that I like and I already own some of their products and have even made review videos about them; which may be why they are contacting me.
I like their products and so I responded that would be willing to work with them. I assumed that they would send me products to review for free and I would do the reviews in exchange for the free products, but now they are asking me how much I charge per video to make the reviews. I have no clue what is reasonable or how to even calculate what I should charge. I mean, realistically speaking, the way I make review videos does actually take time, money and work to produce the video, so I can see why some people would want to charge for doing it, it just never occurred to me. I thought the free products was the pay.
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone here makes review videos for a company and if you can give me some pointers here? I have made many review videos of products I buy, but I have never done it for a company before.
Thanks[DOUBLEPOST=1510816286,1510806774][/DOUBLEPOST]So, I did some searching on google for the answer. One guy suggested that I should figure out my average view ration and charge .02 to .04 cents per view based on that number. Since my channel is about more then product reviews, I decided to go with just the view count from the videos I have made about this companies products already. The average view ratio for those videos was 11 thousand per video. At .02 cents per view, that is $220. Now that sounds like a lot to me, but considering that I don't make simple unboxing videos like some people do, I actually do live in-field test of the the products I review, that might not be enough. For example, if I am reviewing a fishing rod, I will actually go fishing with that rod and video me catching fish with it. That takes time and money to make that video. Also, I do more then just post the video to my youtube account. I have my own personal website that the video will go on that is linked to facebook and twitter pages, where the videos will go be posted to as well.
I just have no idea what is normal for this. Anyone else here do this?
I like their products and so I responded that would be willing to work with them. I assumed that they would send me products to review for free and I would do the reviews in exchange for the free products, but now they are asking me how much I charge per video to make the reviews. I have no clue what is reasonable or how to even calculate what I should charge. I mean, realistically speaking, the way I make review videos does actually take time, money and work to produce the video, so I can see why some people would want to charge for doing it, it just never occurred to me. I thought the free products was the pay.
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone here makes review videos for a company and if you can give me some pointers here? I have made many review videos of products I buy, but I have never done it for a company before.
Thanks[DOUBLEPOST=1510816286,1510806774][/DOUBLEPOST]So, I did some searching on google for the answer. One guy suggested that I should figure out my average view ration and charge .02 to .04 cents per view based on that number. Since my channel is about more then product reviews, I decided to go with just the view count from the videos I have made about this companies products already. The average view ratio for those videos was 11 thousand per video. At .02 cents per view, that is $220. Now that sounds like a lot to me, but considering that I don't make simple unboxing videos like some people do, I actually do live in-field test of the the products I review, that might not be enough. For example, if I am reviewing a fishing rod, I will actually go fishing with that rod and video me catching fish with it. That takes time and money to make that video. Also, I do more then just post the video to my youtube account. I have my own personal website that the video will go on that is linked to facebook and twitter pages, where the videos will go be posted to as well.
I just have no idea what is normal for this. Anyone else here do this?