Latest / Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast
IFH 366: Why Amazon is Only Paying .01¢ Per Streaming Hour to Filmmakers
The streaming wars have their first casualties and of course, it is indie filmmakers. Amazon announces that they would drop their already low per hour streaming rate from .06¢ to .01¢ in North America. When this news hit the indie film world went nuts. Why would Amazon punish creators like this?
Well, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is Amazon dropped their per hour streaming rate from .06¢ to .01¢ but the good news is they raise the maximum possible rate to .12¢ per hour. Check out the chart below
Amazon did this to weed out all the low-quality content that is uploaded tot he…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.