Money is money, mkay!

ok, this has been quite a interesting thread......

I've enjoyed hearing your comments, keep it up, now, in other news, if anyone wants to get partnered... here:
http://www.freedom.tm/via/CookedCat

Now, I'm going to make this clear. If you partner from another network, you don't make more money than you did with the youtube partner program. It;s the same. The only difference is that if you partner with a network,  there are more opportunities. Like the refer a friend program. If someone I knew wanted to join the network, I'd give them this link:http://apply.fullscreen.net/?ref=funmiproductions
Now, if I had at least 1000 subscribers, I'd get cash. If since I am under, all I would get is a thank you.

Fullscreen had this thing called gorilla, where these advertisers had a video that they want to be seen. They have a budget of like $500-$1500. You make a video highlighter the video, and you get paid by the advertisers per view. But now, to do gorilla, you need at least 1000 subscribers since it's hard to make money off a video that would get maybe 50 views in a week.

With fullscreen, I am given free access audio, like sound effects, music. If someone decided to repost my video without permission, I can't either remove it, or make money off it. Yeah, I know.

There is a collection of very talented people on fullscreen. I made a new friend on fullscreen that made me a banner for my channel that looks amazing!

The problem that I have with fullscreen is that they partner like 50 people in a day. Most people on fullscreen only have like 20 subscribers. With all those people getting partnered, it's hard to get a response back from the team personally if you have a question or something.

There used to be a fullscreen sub-division devoted to only animators, called motion pxl. This network was how I got partnered. A few months ago, they dis-banded it for whatever reason, so animators don't really have a voice. Yet, the buffoons that make random video game recordings have their own personnel network.

I'm on my contract for another year. Chances of me renewing it 50/50 to be honest. A lot of animators are on fullscreen now for some reason. But not for long when their contracts end.

My Film Review blog http://funmismoviereviews.blogspot.ca/
My artwork http://funmiproductions.deviantart.com/

No, it's a website and a Partner system.

Thanks for the information, funmi!

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

Your contract ends in May.  You know its July?  You're syaing you have 10 more months?  Sorry to be a downer.

On a different subject, I'm seriously considering switching to vimeo as a hoster.  The quality is higher and the screen clutter is way less.  No ads.  Also no (effective) social networking.  No income potential (but who am I kidding   )

No need to be rude, Funmi. Please be respectful of other members.

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I don't know if you guys are still talking about the fullscreen program or not, but I've been part of the program for a good year now. 

In my personal opinion it's ok. It's not so much filmmakers as it is a gaming partnership program as you'd think.  80% of fullscreen is basically lets plays and video game related videos. There is a good amount of exposure,  but it's hard to surface on a page when it's flooded with constant Minecraft and Call of Duty videos every 5 seconds.

Not to mention everyone plugs their channel constantly on other people's posts.  The community is basically 8-15 year old so I don't spend much time socializing with the forum section.

Overall 2/5. If you're still low on views and subs go fullscreen,  but if you have more than 500 subdues and 100,000+ views find something better.

To be honest, there is no "Perfect Network" to join.

Fullscreen is cluttered with thousands of channels with small inheard of channels that will never rise up above all the channels already partnered with the network and will more than likely not benefit anything from the network while locked into their contract.

Maker Studio just got bought out from Disney Studios, so, I guess it's an ok netowork. Maker is a network more aimed towards people with 1,000's of subscribers and basically a million views total or so. It's for the "Big Leagues" you could say. It's to get connected to the even bigger channels and collab or get tips from them.

And then you have Machinima...Gaming...gaming....gaming. People have been locked into contracts with Machinima that they have control over content people produce or Machinima takes a large profit from videos. It's an ok netowork if you make really good "lets plays" or gaming Machinima's.

After my contract with Fullscreen is up i'm applying to become part of Maker Studios, but my contract ends in a year. A lot can happen in 1 year. Netoworks are like the stock market. You just need to watch and see what the future predicts for each network. Maybe some new network will rise up and be a better choice over another network because they have the benefits you want that the other network doesn't.

tl;dr research the networks and choose the one that fits you best. When you get locked into a contract knock the years down to 1 year instead of 2 years. Don't get screwed over like I did.