Contacted by Rumble. What should i do?

Sleazoid

Sleazoid

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Hey there!

So Rumble contacted me because they are interested by one of my videos obviously and i don't know if i should accept or not. I'm kinda new to Youtube, only uploaded a few videos 3 months ago but i will upload more later.
It's a video about my dog, type "pug confused by tablet" in YT (and look at that sub button *wink wink*) and here's a copy of the contract (i can't post the link... :( ).

Dependant on the option you select above, you hereby grant Rumble Inc. (Rumble) the following license and/or rights management:

1. Video management & revenue share License: You are assigning the exclusive rights management of your content to Rumble. Rumble will be obligated to pay 60% of the gross revenue collected from 3rd parties in relation to your video with the exception of YouTube.com. On YouTube.com, you will retain 90% of all earnings generated in relation to your video directly on YouTube.com. Rumble will also claim, and police all infringing copies of your video. You are granting Rumble an exclusive, worldwide, commercial, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, edit, syndicate, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Rumble's (and its successors', partners and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

2. Non-Exclusive License: You retain all of your ownership rights to your Content. However, by submitting Content to Rumble and selecting the NON-EXCLUSIVE option, you hereby grant Rumble a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable license to use, distribute, and display the content on Rumble or any of its partners & affiliates, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing the Content in any media formats and through any media channels.

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Additionally to the the selected license above, you also grant Rumble the following.

Term: The above licenses granted by you are perpetual and irrevocable.

By signing this agreement you hereby give Rumble permission to license the Content and to use the Content in any Media for any purpose which may include, among others, advertising, promotion, marketing and packaging for any product or service. You agree that the Content may be combined with other images, text, graphics, film, audio, audio-visual works; and may be cropped, altered or modified.

You further agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant Rumble all of the license rights granted herein.

Any advices?
 
If you're a small channel, I would not recommend partnering just because a lot of the time they don't care about smaller channels on their network and they tend to be hard to get out of.
 
I don't have any first hand experience with Rumble, but upon first sight it seems like a decent deal; you keep 90% of your Youtube-income from the video and earn 60% from other types of licensing that you probably wouldn't have gotten into on your own. It all depends on how actively they will be working with promoting your material though - they might just want to 'secure it just in case'.

Personally I think this is very interesting: "Rumble will also claim, and police all infringing copies of your video." If it is a type of video that is often copied and ripped off by other sites this might be worth quite a bit.

As a photographer I had around 100 photos with Getty Images a few years back (when it actually cost a reasonable amount of money to license a photo - I pulled all my photos from them when they (as one of the last large photo banks) also started with cheap stock photo sales.), and there were months where I earned more from Getty hunting down people who had stolen photos and got them to pay up than I did from sales through them.
 
Sleazoid said:
Hey there!

So Rumble contacted me because they are interested by one of my videos obviously and i don't know if i should accept or not. I'm kinda new to Youtube, only uploaded a few videos 3 months ago but i will upload more later.
It's a video about my dog, type "pug confused by tablet" in YT (and look at that sub button *wink wink*) and here's a copy of the contract (i can't post the link... :( ).

Dependant on the option you select above, you hereby grant Rumble Inc. (Rumble) the following license and/or rights management:

1. Video management & revenue share License: You are assigning the exclusive rights management of your content to Rumble. Rumble will be obligated to pay 60% of the gross revenue collected from 3rd parties in relation to your video with the exception of YouTube.com. On YouTube.com, you will retain 90% of all earnings generated in relation to your video directly on YouTube.com. Rumble will also claim, and police all infringing copies of your video. You are granting Rumble an exclusive, worldwide, commercial, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, edit, syndicate, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Rumble's (and its successors', partners and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

2. Non-Exclusive License: You retain all of your ownership rights to your Content. However, by submitting Content to Rumble and selecting the NON-EXCLUSIVE option, you hereby grant Rumble a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable license to use, distribute, and display the content on Rumble or any of its partners & affiliates, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing the Content in any media formats and through any media channels.

---

Additionally to the the selected license above, you also grant Rumble the following.

Term: The above licenses granted by you are perpetual and irrevocable.

By signing this agreement you hereby give Rumble permission to license the Content and to use the Content in any Media for any purpose which may include, among others, advertising, promotion, marketing and packaging for any product or service. You agree that the Content may be combined with other images, text, graphics, film, audio, audio-visual works; and may be cropped, altered or modified.

You further agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant Rumble all of the license rights granted herein.

Any advices?
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I have only done non exclusive licensing with Rumble and other sites since I am partnered with Fullscreen. Non exclusive means you keep the rights to the video (meaning I still have my own monetized version on YouTube). I have made more $$$ with Rumble than with YouTube in a way shorter time. I know a girl from the Dalmatian forum that has made thousands of dollars per video, I think she does the video management option. She says she makes WAY more with Rumble than YouTube.

Just make sure you read all of the contract info to make sure you aren't signing something away. I have a friend that chose exclusive license back when that was an option, so they no longer own the video.
 
If you're a small channel, I would not recommend partnering just because a lot of the time they don't care about smaller channels on their network and they tend to be hard to get out of.
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I partnered with another mvn for one of my videos and i received my first payment: ~150€ for one month. I think it's pretty good for a really small channel like mine. Thanks anyway.

you keep 90% of your Youtube-income from the video and earn 60% from other types of licensing
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Yup and they told me in the mail that they are also paying me $50 up-front.

But i'm a bit lost about the non-exclusive and exclusive license. What is the difference exactly?

Edit: ok Munchito, i see. They told me "You will retain the ownership of the video" in the email.
 
McCool said:
I don't have any first hand experience with Rumble, but upon first sight it seems like a decent deal; you keep 90% of your Youtube-income from the video and earn 60% from other types of licensing that you probably wouldn't have gotten into on your own. It all depends on how actively they will be working with promoting your material though - they might just want to 'secure it just in case'.

Personally I think this is very interesting: "Rumble will also claim, and police all infringing copies of your video." If it is a type of video that is often copied and ripped off by other sites this might be worth quite a bit.

As a photographer I had around 100 photos with Getty Images a few years back (when it actually cost a reasonable amount of money to license a photo - I pulled all my photos from them when they (as one of the last large photo banks) also started with cheap stock photo sales.), and there were months where I earned more from Getty hunting down people who had stolen photos and got them to pay up than I did from sales through them.
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The thing with Rumble, as soon as your video makes the "viral" page, you will see about 8 copies on YouTube with the same exact description, title, and video. These channels do nothing but steal Rumble viral videos and make a page out of it. They normally get taken down though.
 
Sleazoid said:
I partnered with another mvn for one of my videos and i received my first payment: ~150€ for one month. I think it's pretty good for a really small channel like mine. Thanks anyway.


Yup and they told me in the mail that they are also paying me $50 up-front.

But i'm a bit lost about the non-exclusive and exclusive license. What is the difference exactly?

Edit: ok Munchito, i see. They told me "You will retain the ownership of the video" in the email.
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Yes Non exclusive means you retain non exclusive rights and they will also now have non exclusive rights. Video management is not allowed for me since it would interfere with Fullscreen's cut on my videos. If you are not part of a network it may be a good option, just read everything to make sure you understand the details.
 
Munchito696 said:
The thing with Rumble, as soon as your video makes the "viral" page, you will see about 8 copies on YouTube with the same exact description, title, and video. These channels do nothing but steal Rumble viral videos and make a page out of it. They normally get taken down though.
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Wouldn't this be treated just like any other copyright violation? That being the copyright holder (you/Rumble) ending up with all the ad revenue from the views if it is not taken down?
 
McCool said:
Wouldn't this be treated just like any other copyright violation? That being the copyright holder (you/Rumble) ending up with all the ad revenue from the views if it is not taken down?
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If you sign exclusive rights, Rumble gets all the revenue. Non exclusive you retain the rights to your original video. I've always seen channels that do this get terminated for copyright violations, so I never had a chance to get a claim validated.

I actually had a debate with Rumble, they did a claim on a video I uploaded a while back to Rumble as non exclusive, but I had an email trail that proved it was non exclusive so they released the claim. Just keep track of everything.
 
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