To sell or not to sell.....

Leroy · Dec 20, 2016

Cool. Who bought it?

LandonPainter · Dec 20, 2016

A company named Storyful.

Magnum783 · Dec 20, 2016

That's AWESOME Landon couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Leroy · Dec 20, 2016

Nice. A marketing company? How'd they find the video?

oceans · Dec 20, 2016

I remember it! I had a feeling because it sounded familiar. Good for you, Landon & Jeff!

oceans · Dec 20, 2016

So maybe DON'T post it anywhere, and direct all attention to where Storyful posts it, that way you can retire early on a yacht near @swingdude .

LandonPainter · Dec 20, 2016

Yacht life sounds good!

Levi. The video had a bunch of views on social media and they contacted me. Apparently there is a whole business out there I didn't know about.

LandonPainter · Dec 20, 2016

Raven27 · Dec 21, 2016

Yeah, I've seen that a bunch. All.All . my friends who know me asked if it was me cutting. Lol shit you not. So where is the now commercial application.of this video

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Dec 22, 2016

Well played Landon.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Dec 23, 2016

LandonPainter said:
Yacht life sounds good!

Levi. The video had a bunch of views on social media and they contacted me. Apparently there is a whole business out there I didn't know about.

Jeez...I think I've done over 250 videos....not a single call....not a single penny...I have had a couple calls to do photography...but who has the time. :hueco:

TimBr · Dec 24, 2016

Raven27 said:
Yeah, I've seen that a bunch. All.All . my friends who know me asked if it was me cutting. Lol shit you not. So where is the now commercial application.of this video

I think I saw a news piece going by, maybe "60 Minutes", about some young folks who are becoming very wealthy very quickly because of the fact that they are able to produce videos for the internet that a lot of people like to watch. Sets of eyes watching anything translates almost directly into advertising revenue. It is the reason that ad spots during the superbowl cost so much; the NFL can practically guarantee advertisers the single largest exposure they will get all year. So any person who can reliably deliver a large audience is a very valuable asset.

All the company buying the rights to the video has to do is line up advertisers that are willing to pay for product ads that appear in conjunction with the video, and that is how the revenue gets generated.

The big trick is to figure out how to produce videos that millions of people want to watch.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Dec 25, 2016

TimBr said:
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The big trick is to figure out how to produce videos that millions of people want to watch.

So that's my problem, well one of them I guess. Guess I'll just keep doing it for fun and my own education.

LandonPainter · Dec 27, 2016

I think the only reason this video has so many views is because Jeff has a ton of facebook friends. If I had posted it, the video would have only gotten a handful of views.

I have learned a lot from your videos Richard, please keep sharing.