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Choosing an Online Video Platform: YouTube Pt. 1

11.24.10 @ 11:28AM Tags : choosing-online-video, distribution, guest, monetization, robin-schmidt, web-series, youtube

This is a guest post by filmmaker Robin Schmidt a.k.a. El Skid.

If you receive Koo’s regular newsletter (and you should by the way) you’ll have recently read a short appraisal of the various video sharing sites currently around. I’ve been developing a weekly comedy show called Super Massive Raver which we’re looking to monetize online and, believe me, once you start digging into this area the reading gets pretty grim pretty quickly. More »

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Full Disclosure

06.28.10 @ 3:19PM Tags : blogging, meta, monetization

Last year the Federal Trade Commission passed legislation [PDF link] requiring bloggers to disclose their connections to products, advertisers, and other sources of income. I’m not exactly raking it in with NoFilmSchool, so I didn’t write the disclosures page for the government’s sake, but rather for anyone who’s interested in methods of web site monetization. For example, on the page I mention that I’m using Pretty Link Pro, which is a great tool for shortening, managing, and tracking links. As I find more and better ways to monetize the site, I’ll update the page accordingly. Disclosures »

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The first problem with Dynamo Player...

05.10.10 @ 2:13PM Tags : dynamoplayer, monetization

… is what happens when you click the play button: nothing actually plays. Anytime you’re going to ask someone for money to play a video — which is something we all need to figure out how to do — you need to have the trailer or something give a preview first. Here’s the Dynamo Player player in its albeit beta form: More »

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Can a blog be self-sustaining? NoFilmSchool's traffic and revenue

05.4.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : blog, career, meta, monetization, money

Can a blog like NoFilmSchool be self-sustaining? As a blogger you can make money by being a contributor to a huge tech or political blog, wherein you’re one of many staff writers churning out content every day — which I’ve done — but can you turn a profit by writing about what’s important to you, on your own site, in your own way? In my recent manifesto I talked about blog revenue being one (small) slice of the self-sustaining pie, and on this site’s about page I wrote, “a big part of figuring out how to be independently creative — and by this I mean, being able to work on your own creations, for yourself, without having a day job — is figuring out how to derive value from the content you create.” Here, then, are the traffic and revenue stats from NoFilmSchool for the just-concluded month of April: More »