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Has anyone had any success distributing their film/s through filmhub.com please?

7 years, 4 months ago - Ray Brady

Hi,
I been trying to find out more information about distribution through filmhub.com and wondered if their were any Shooters that have used it and would recommend either Pro's or Con's on the record or off please? They say that your film/s can be accessed via all the top platforms i.e Netflix, Amazon Video, iTunes, Hula, Roku, approximately fifty in total, also giving you control of territories in case you make a separate deal, which all sounds incredibly exciting but is this working in practise for smaller unknown titles with no major talent in them? How are the managing to promote titles and their new product in the face of the studio publicity machined competition?

Any and all replies, either on this noticeboard or by confidential PM, would be very greatly appreciated?
Many thanks
Kindest regards Ray Brady

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Response from 7 years, 3 months ago - Al Carretta SHOW

7 years, 3 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

I haven't used filmhub, but it looks interesting.

Vimeo charges 10 percent, plus another yearly fee, plus deducts paypal and other charges. They do almost no marketing for your film, but slightly more than Amazon (your film might be in a rota of similar films, but that also means people considering buying your film will see competing titles before making up their minds.)

They also charge you (with unfavourable exchange rates) for accepting money in currencies other than dollars, which is annoying when your market is outside the US.

Amazon Prime charges a crazy high fee, over 30 percent, and they don't appear to market your film at all. They make Vimeo look good. In addition, you have to buy a test copy of your DVD, and they seem to want a degree of exclusivity. It's like the worst kind of self-publishing. What do you get for that 30+ percent, exclusivity, and other fees? The privilege of signing away a lot of your rights, and an IMDB page. Not worth it in my opinion. (I'm sure the big studios negotiate better deals.)

There are other competitors, depending upon the nature of your content, but sadly most are being bought up by those two.

I wish there were a UK based competitor (or at least one in the EU).

Response from 7 years, 3 months ago - Vasco de Sousa SHOW