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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Now creators can distribute their videos through Amazon to reach Prime audiences. According to Variety:
"Amazon will pay partners 50% of the retail price for digital purchases, rentals and subscription fees. If they choose Prime Video distribution, creators will earn royalties of 15 cents per hour streamed in the U.S. and 6 cents in other territories (capp… See more
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Super interesting. "Amazon told Bloomberg the platform is meant for "professional" creators, the only requirements are having a video be in HD format, and including closed captioning."
Can Comertoglu
@cancom10 · Product @OneDrive (prev: Vimeo, Amzn)
Interesting... As a previous Director @ Vimeo - I do see this as a direct competitor to Vimeo On Demand. Amazon's distribution is a lot healthier... Vimeo is mostly "in and out" (title/video based), and it's facing a harder uphill battle to be a destination. The special sauce of Vimeo on Demand is simply the fact that it's embeddable. What that allows is cre… See more
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I wonder if there could be an interesting vlog-angle that Amazon could exploit here, or whether YouTube have it under-wraps already...