One of our goals is to always be promoting the projects and content that our community creates. Today we look at one of our youngest but remarkably, most talented members Mattson Tomlin of New York who has created several short and feature films in his promising young career.

His current short film project “Early Retirement” should be successfully completed in the next month or so. You can get a sneak peak at the first 5 minutes of the film below in its semi-rough form, while seeing the great potential the entertainment piece has. I for one find it very interesting to see early versions of projects in progress to see first hand how post production improves content quality.

Expect to see the full film soon on our partner’s video sharing site, and we intend to also feature the film on our homepage to show what our community is capable of creating. Keep up the hard work Mattson, and continue to follow your dreams as a filmmaker.

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Spidvid is a social platform to be leveraged for creating quality video content that can be monetized, allowing each production team member to be compensated. We assume that people who have been following Spidvid for the last couple months understand this concept, but wanted to dedicate a post for those who don’t.

On YouTube anyone can be a creator by posting videos directly from their webcam, or uploading them from their Flip or smartphone video cameras. The majority of this content gets a very low amount of views, interaction, and it can’t be monetized. Spidvid’s community will be well represented by the YouTube generation, but this group needs to grasp the model of connecting with others to improve their video production value, and to understand their purpose for being a member on the site. Content that tells a story accompanied with production value is the ideal content format to produce on Spidvid, and the sponsors and advertisers who want to place their messages within the content demand that as well.

In our early beginnings the payout to production teams will be $1/1,000 views starting after the first 1,000 video views. So if a video attracts 1,000,000 views it earns $999, as the math shows 999 x $1 = $999. That $999 would be shared between the production team members according to the compensation breakdown set by the project’s creator. As mentioned before we intend to make the compensation process within Spidvid more collaborative so that the team as a whole decides what the breakdown should be.

The goal for next year is to build out the distribution and monetization network and to change the payout structure from a CPM model to a revenue sharing model. Under a revenue sharing model the distributor, ad network, the production team, and Spidvid will all share whatever revenues are attracted for each video. For now we have the above compensation model in effect mainly to communicate early on that we believe that a lucrative financial model will be successful as we move forward within the new media landscape.

To get your very own private beta invite visit our site, click the ‘join our video production community’ button on the left side, provide us with your email address, and expect to get your invite code next week.

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