Genius Brands International Inc (GNUS)

[tdeck]

Well the Prime Video Direct is 50% of the price, or so it says in the sentence prior to the one you noted in your post.

As a streamer, PVD looks more like YouTube than Netflix. Producers submit their content themselves; those shows become searchable in Prime Video and are monetized based on the number of minutes they’re watched. While titles made available for rent or sale on the main Prime Video service earn 50% of their sticker price, PVD’s streaming titles earn revenue based on a tiered system. A show’s first 100,000 hours of streaming within a year earns US$0.04 per hour, scaling up to a maximum of US$0.10 for hours 500,000 to 999,999.

The AVOD or streaming service earns the hours watched deal. It is all terribly confusing. Only thing for sure is the 50% deal with the VOD's that sell the episodes for $1.99 and seasons for $19.99, and I guess this weird hourly deal is AVOD the (ad based streaming version) where is that on Prime is that the tv Prime viewed at home?

At any rate the system is convoluted at best with the only for sure being the VOD sales/rentals but then who knows how many are sold to each one YouTube/Google Play/Amazon Prime/VDU/ which are all the same $1.99 per episode and $19.99 for the entire season.

The 40+ other platforms which are AVOD use the hourly deal but is that separate for each one? Has to be, but, then again are they all the same as the example they gave?

Here is a video help page on the streaming service (like YouTube) not the rental/purchase route.

https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/landing?ref=pvd_us_os_wab_lp

At the end of the day its all just another stream, its the sum of the whole. And Derek yes the $$ received from now til the end of time in AVOD looks small in the hourly thing compared to what it cost to produce them, but, that money is already covered by Netflix when buying the season rights the same with Nick Jr. Its what makes them and companies like GNUS and the rest worth money long term as once paid for its jut free money as I have mentioned here before it is "no cost" revenue or straight profit.

As it continues to grow and with each new market/country it sells into whether on tv, SVOD (subscription VOD) or AVOD platform (Ad based streaming) its virtually all free after the seasons are paid for.
That is why they are called "evergreen" they are green forever.