FAQs






How do I get more viewers?





 



Once the film is activated (if the filmmaker has a Distribution Pass, they will not have to pay for the initial setup fee), the filmmaker will be able to include their film in the Free films with ads modality. Viewers will be able to view the film freely in SD quality, including ads prior to the viewing.

Income generated by publicity are split as follows: 70% for filmmakers and 30% for Festhome, once management costs are subtracted. The 70% for filmmakers will be split according to the number of minutes each film is watched for.


Once the film is activated (if the filmmaker has a Distribution Pass, they will not have to pay for initial setup fee), the filmmaker will be able to include their film in the HD rental modality, with which viewers will pay for renting the film in HD with no ads.

Expenditures for this service are 15% of generated income (plus 0.25€ per short film, or .50€ per feature film), so that filmmakers obtain an 85% profit (including PayPal fees).


Once the film is activated (if the filmmaker has a Distribution Pass, they will not have to pay for the initial setup fee), the filmmaker will be able to include their film in the HD rental modality that includes the Subscription submodality, with which viewers will pay a set monthly fee and will be able to access freely all films included in the catalogue in order to view them in HD quality and without ads.

Income generated by this Subscription modality are split as follows: 70% for filmmakers and 30% for Festhome, once management costs are subtracted. The 70% for filmmakers will be split according to the number of minutes each film is watched for.


Payments will be done monthly into your PayPal account. You will find in your user account a statistics page in which you will be able to consult in detail the number of viewings, downloads, rentals, viewed minutes, ect, and you will also be able to see your monthly income per modality.


No, at Festhome you are free: you get started whenever you want, and you can end it whenever you want, without mandatory permanence terms, exclusivity nor copyrights given away. Festhome provides you with a technological tool, the rest is up to you. You just need to accept our Terms of Use when you start using our service.


Currently it is necessary to renew the service annually, although we are working on removing this fee in the future.



If you need help designing your channel, contact us.


Once your film is active at Indiehome TV, we recommend that you publish the news in your social networks, send an email to your contacts, or use any other means you may think of for your film's promotion that will let you reach as many viewers as possible.

If it is a premiere, do it before your film goes live to create expectation.

Send out a press release (local, regional, national…), including in a relevant place the Indiehome Tv link to your film for its viewing.


Indiehome Tv has a global dimension; for that reason, your film's subtitles are really important. We recommend that your film is subtitled into English, at least, so that you can reach a higher number of viewers. If your film has more subtitles in other languages, we encourage you to add them so that you can reach the highest possible number of viewers from different countries.

Festhome offers a subtitling service to some of the most important languages, see more.


Choose an appealing design for your film's poster, sine it will be your introduction to viewers. Do not use a screenshot as a poster: its dimensions will not be the right ones, and our system will not admit it.

If you need help with the poster design, contact us.


The number of selections and awards is very important at Indiehome Tv because it can determine whether a viewer will choose to watch your film or not. That is why you should keep this information constantly updated.


Your film's image is important: do not choose any image at random. We recommend that you choose a clean image that represents your film properly. You may add selection laurels or remarkable press quotes about your film so that this image represents your film for viewers.

If you do not have design expertise, we recommend that you get professional assistance to design your film's page. A poorly designed page will give you a bad image and will not appeal to possible viewers.


Make sure you have chosen correctly your film's category and themes, since that data is part of the searches viewers will be able to do. It is worth it to make an effort to select those options properly. It would be unwise, for instance, to select terror for your short film made for children.


If you use other services for storing and playing your films publicly, and you have chosen to activate the "Free films with ads" option, we recommend that you delete those public links and re-direct that traffic of potential viewers to Indiehome Tv so that you can profit from each viewing of your film. The more traffic and viewings you get, the higher the profit you can obtain is.


You will be able to download from Setup & Publish some buttons that you may integrate in your website or blog. Increase the traffic to your films at Indiehome Tv, share them in your social networks and ask your followers to share them also themselves.


We believe at Indiehome Tv that a trailer is not the best means to attract viewers, so we allow a 30 second random pre-viewing of your film for HD viewings without ads, so that viewers can feel attracted to your film immediately.


When you set up your film at Indiehome Tv you have to make sure you are the copyright holder of all materials included in your film (particularly its music soundtrack): if you are not, your film could be subject of a legal claim, and in that case Indiehome Tv would delete it from the system temporarily until such claim was legally settled.