I recently discovered the website rumble.com which apparently works 10x better than posting the videos on youtube!
Has anyone here used it and can provide us with a guide of do's and don'ts?
I have sold quite a few videos to them and have had positive experiences with that site. For a lot of my videos I have made WAY more from Rumble than my YouTube uploads of the same video, but this isn't always the case. I'll try to be brief in the following context. My biggest tip when licensing videos: READ EVERYTHING in the licensing details so you know what your content is becoming. Certain licenses and agreements change how you own and earn from your content. I'm no legal expert, but I am very careful before signing a video away so I know what my rights and the company's rights will be. Anyways, here's a bit of my experience:
With Rumble, I did a lot of non exclusive videos; this means they pay me up front a certain lump sum value and that gives them non exclusive rights to the video. This means they post it and get their own ad revenue from it, but you still own non exclusive rights to your video. So basically you and Rumble can now make money from that video, but neither of you have exclusive rights to it anymore. So you or Rumble legally can't sell exclusive rights to another company without first coming to agreement with the other party.
For example, I have sold plenty of videos to them with non exclusive licenses. I still have the videos monetized on YouTube as well, so I get the payment from Rumble and still make my own YouTube revenue. I've actually had some YouTube videos end up making more than the ones I sold to Rumble over time.
Also with Non Exclusive licensing, I have sold non exclusive licenses to multiple companies for the same video. I was able to sell one video to Rumble AND Break and I still have it monetized on YouTube. I also sold a video to Rumble and some random UK TV show also bought a non exclusive license to the video... I still have that video monetized on YouTube as well.
NOW to Video Management. I know one person who was making a ton of money per video on Rumble apparently using Exclusive (which is now called Video Management). This basically means they totally own the rights to that video. You get paid based on the amount of views it gets from Rumble instead of a lump sum. I tried video management on one of my videos and I think I have made maybe a dollar from it so far, AND they have a 3rd party claim on my YouTube version, so they get part of the revenue from any YouTube views. The video is basically not mine anymore.
I haven't uploaded there much lately so things have probably changed, so don't quote my knowledge, I'm just giving a summary of my past experience. Rumble is legit though if that's what you are all wondering.
I'll tell you one thing, they like shocking moments that are randomly captured, and they really love pet videos. I'll give you an example of how they discovered me and I discovered them. Rumble and about 11 other companies all randomly sent me a message about this video... I have no idea why they all suddenly wanted it, but I went with Rumble and they worked out great. So if you have pets, Rumble will like you...
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How is it better? Is it supposed to be a youtube alternative like vimeo/dailymotion? Even if the cpm might be higher there I'd imagine the potential audience would be lower. Of course, as long as it's not a requirement that your videos are exclusive to their platform, it could maybe be beneficial to use both. But I'm not informed on the subject
Read my post, they have non exclusive and exclusive options. I have made a lot using non exclusive with Rumble.[DOUBLEPOST=1473400121][/DOUBLEPOST]
I recently discovered the website rumble.com which apparently works 10x better than posting the videos on youtube!
Has anyone here used it and can provide us with a guide of do's and don'ts?
Here's a list of dos and don'ts real quick before I play video games and go to bed:
DO
1. READ EVERYTHING for each method of licensing before you sell your video rights so you don't regret what you did.
2. Look at the "Viral" section and see what is in there, those are videos they have actually paid people for.
3. If you have pet videos or cute baby videos, they will probably pay you for them. I have made a lot and I know friends that have made money from dog and baby videos.
DON'T
1. Don't expect to make money on just anything, they only pay for stuff they think they will make some ad revenue on. They won't just pay you and take a loss.
2. Don't upload anything there without knowing you are giving up some sort of rights for your videos for most of the licenses. Like I said, READ.
3. Don't violate the license agreements, that's where legal battles can happen
