Should I sell my home movie to You've Been Framed?

mameha

I have a funny home video of my daughter falling asleep while eating.

I am thinking to upload it to ITV's You've Been Framed, as they pay 250 quid for each video they show.

However in the T&C it says that you hand over the rights of the video to ITV. ie. they can redistribute my video and I get no royalty on it.

This made me wonder, is there a way to distribute the video through another agent/company that will pay more than ITV's 250 quid?

cookie_monster

There's no guarantee they will show it but £250 sounds good.

droopsnoot

Please, please send it. It's about time they got some that aren't more than ten years old, so they can justify the "All New..." tag they they keep sticking on the programmes. Honestly, much as I think Harry Hill makes the programme, it's hardly worth watching now.

Seriously though, I would think it hard to get that money from anywhere else. Youtube will allow you to monetise it, but it would take many thousands of views to hit £250. Have a look at similar videos on there and see if you think yours will get more hits than the rest.

I think you'll find the same T&Cs on most things - I guess the idea is to not have to pay again no matter how many times they show it.

mameha

Well I can imagine they redistribute the good videos to similar programs overseas and make their 250 quid back and then some. So I was wondering if there is a more lucrative way to sell the rights to the video.

dm827430

is it really funny or just funny to you?
have you tried youtube? market the link to as many people as possible to get views - no guarantee on income, but if it is popular ......

MysteryMe

£250 sounds good to me!

Buzby

Bearing in mind it is a 'clip' the only way they can justify the production costs is to buy out the residuals so they can continue to market the programme at no further costs. It's quite common - but if you feel your clip is unique, don't sell out and stick to your guns.

Avon2001

Let me put it this way, you can either send it in to YBF and hope to make a quick and easy £250 or you can go to the effort of trying to monetize the clip yourself and hope to make more. At the end of the day the choice is yours, but personally I suspect that the amount of effort I'd have to put in to make £250 from a clip by other means, the cost of my time would probably come to more than the £250 I'd earn from the clip!

podperson

I do some work in film so I don't want this to come across as harsh but it's a clip of a child falling asleep eating. I'm sure it's amusing but there's a lot of clips like it out there, it's not groundbreaking and I very much doubt there's anywhere that will pay you more than the £250 for it.
As mentioned above you could try and put it somewhere like Youtube and try and make money from ads on it - but you would need to get a huge amount of views to make more than the £250 which would involve putting effort in for marketing it, seo etc. Even if you understand those things is it worth putting all that time in when it still may not return more than a few quid.
You could possibly try uploading it as a stock footage clip but it would need to be high quality and even then I'm not if there would be a great deal of demand for it.

droopsnoot

mameha wrote: »

Well I can imagine they redistribute the good videos to similar programs overseas and make their 250 quid back and then some. So I was wondering if there is a more lucrative way to sell the rights to the video.

I would think they do sell them on, given the number of US clips that are in "our" programmes, but it's all about having the contacts. Trying to sell it from scratch would be very difficult. If you had a few hundred clips, maybe it would be worthwhile, but I think you'd struggle to better that.