Top tips for getting your video sold

There are a few ways to make sure your video is discovered by the thousands of people searching Newsflare for videos.

See below for tips on helping your videos generate maximum revenue:

• How to tag
• Best descriptions
• Other information
• What sells
• Things that prevent your video from selling

Tagging:

Tagging helps buyers to search and find your video, they might be looking for a specific object, location or action. We've jotted down below some examples to give you inspiration.

How to tag: To add tags to your video,

• Head to My Videos and click edit and add new tags under 'Tags',
• Start typing and to add another tag use the comma ','
• Don't use '#' - no need, just words will do

What to tag:

• Objects: Name the objects in the video ie cat, Burmese cat, ball, mouse, skateboard, skateboarders, motorway, car, truck
• Action: What's happening in the video ie falling, skating, skateboarding, surfing, tripping over, sliding, running, car crash, accident
• Theme: Holiday, road trip, Animals, Pets, Weather, Nature, Drones, Dog, Baby, Fail, UK news, USA, Accidents.  
• Single and multiple words tags: Partners will often search with multiple words, to increase your chances of getting your video found, try including multiple words as a tag - for example "Dad running fail", or "terrible holiday weather", "worst flood Cumbria" can help surface your video for purchase.  

Description:

Add as much as you like here that describes what is happening in your video. It helps to include the location and if there is a story behind the video - sometimes our buyers like to include this as part of their news article.

To start with, if you can - include: 

• What happened?
• Who is involved?
• Where did it take place?
• When did it take place?
• Why did that happen?
• How did it happen?

Other information:

Location:

As some of our buyers are looking for things specific to a location make sure your location is accurate and matches the location on the map is super important.

Often our Production / TV buyers are searching for something related to a specific theme and will search certain areas. By making sure your location is correct it increases the chances of your video making it to a TV program or news show.

Thumbnails:

If the default thumbnail doesn't show the action - you can change it, simply find the video you'd like to change and click Edit video, and click on the thumbnail which will give you a selection of frame options to choose from. 

What to upload next 

You'd be surprised what sells, it surprises us constantly! If in doubt, upload it - you never know what someone is searching for right now or sometime in the future. One member uploaded a video 4 years ago and it recently just sold again!

• Video briefs: We have partners that are looking for something specific and others that are constantly on the look out for videos around a specific theme - like dashcam crash footage, wild weather, life hacks, graffiti to name a few, for our current live video briefs check out Video briefs section.  
• Timely: News sites are looking for videos relating to current affairs
• Original: Something unique
• Funny and fails: Lots of our partners are looking for entertaining videos, if it's made you smile or surprised your friends, someone else might find it interesting as well. 

 For inspiration head here: These top 10 tips will help you earn money on Newsflare

What to avoid, things that stop a sale

There are a few things that make selling your video tricky, best to avoid the following:  

• Music: We can't use anything that has copyrighted music in your video - it's best to upload it in it's raw format. Websites or TV producers will often put their own non-copyright music to match your video
• Did you shoot the video: You must own the copyright, we can't sell it on your behalf if it isn't
• Logos or watermarks: A buyer will prefer that you don't have watermarks or logos on your video
• Less is more: Overly produced content, weird transitions/awkward cuts etc. Don't worry about the edit, the purer the footage the better as it gives the producers more to work with.