An Izzy Video Announcement
I’m excited to announce a change to Izzy Video. I’ve launched a new Premium Subscriber program. Here is what a Premium Subscriber receives:
- The Archives — Premium subscribers get exclusive access to the archives of past Izzy Video tutorials (currently 55 episodes strong). The archives will no longer be available to free subscribers. However, I have made a few sample episodes available to help free subscribers determine if they would like to become premium subscribers.
- Two Members-Only Episodes Per Month — Premium Subscribers will also receive two members-only episodes per month. My plan is to continue to produce free episodes and publish them on the free feed, but they will be at a lower resolution and published less frequently.
- Higher Resolution Videos — The free tutorials will be low resolution, 320×240. The premium feed will be high resolution, 640×480.
A premium subscription will last for six months. During that time, you will have access to a members-only section of this site, where you can find the premium feed as well as direct links to the huge archive of Izzy Video tutorials.
The price for a six month premium subscription is $45.
When you add the 55 archive episodes, plus the 12 members-only episodes you’ll receive over the next 6 months, it totals to 67 episodes which will not be available to subscribers of the free feed. Let’s do the math: $45 dollars divided by 67 episodes = you’re only paying 67 cents per episode. When you consider the value of the content in the videos, I hope you’ll agree that $45 is a small price to pay.
Please click here to learn more about the Premium Subscriber Program.
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Thanks, Peter. Although I will be focusing most of my efforts on producing premium shows, I will continue to release free tutorials as well.
Thanks for watching!
Don’t be surprised if the back catalogue of Izzy video is not mirrored for download by all - Damn that creative commons hey? ;-)
Hi Izzy
If you are a new visitor and buys the premium membership and get all 67 episodes then 67 cents is cheap, but i guess that most of us that have followed Izzyvidoes from the beginning have saved all the 55 episodes on computer HDD.
So $45 for the 12 new episodes = $3.75 for each episode, kind of expensive i think.
Probably you will lose a lot of us regular viewers if you continue with that high price, the idea with a membership with better quality is great but please lower the price.
How about like $9.95/month.
Thanks
Bengt
45$ is for six months. Your proposal makes almost 60$…
Anyway, I was thinking about this all day and everything that pops into my mind is: Enable Revver pre-rolls! Your videos are long, in english and cover a lot in an interesting field (not to mention hyper quality and fan base). Considering that, I’m almost positive you’ll get many pre-rolls which bring much more money then those clickable ads in the end(even to ten times more, I read somewhere).
But you might had pre-rolls enabled all the time and it didn’t work.
Sorry, my mistake, i did only count for 3 month only, i think the price $30/6 month would be enough.
Thanks
Bengt
I think the complaints about the Premium Subscriber plans are rather unfair. Israel has been creating high quality free instructional videos for a long time. Let’s be thankful for that.
You can’t blame him that he needs to look for a way to create a business model for that.
The freely available episodes offer a very nice overview of a lot of topics. You would also have been sad if Israel had decided to stop completely with Izzy Video just because he was unable to combine this with ‘his regular job’ (most of us have a regular job to pay the bills).
I’ve been using podsafe music in my audio podcast a lot and from time to time I buy a CD from one of the artists that I like and whose music I use.
Look at it from that point: this is a way to support someone that creates a lot of valuable content, who helped you to save time figuring it out yourself and saved you a lot of money buying books that probably explained it not as good as Israel does.
And yes, I did sign up as a Premium Subscriber even though I’ve been watching the videos since episode number 1.
I think it is $45 well spent.
I enjoy a number of podcasts however I have not developed the confidence in the creators to pay for these “premium memberships” Revision3 has tried this yet they will unexpectedly cancel shows but claim the next one is just weeks away (The Broken, Control Alt Chicken) Glimpster has done the same with Woven Shadows. You could fork over the dough and Izzy video could just stop production the next day. It’s really too bad this is the model that is being choosen to fund these shows. I think an advertising approach would be better at keeping the download numbers up. Mac Break Studio will be a good replacement I guess.
Well, since I am a teenage moviemaker with no budget whatsoever, I guess I’m saying so long to the amazing izzyvideo ‘cast. I’ll keep coming back for the free episodes, but there’s just no way I can afford the “Premium Subscriber” package. Sounds like I’m applying for a credit card. Too bad, too. I really liked all the not-so-entry-level episodes.
I’m disappointed. Most of your viewers are new filmmakers and DIY type people on limited budgets. I thought here’s a guy from my home state, probably my backyard, “giving of himself” to those who want to learn - how very giving of him. I have given your link to tons of people, but now they won’t be able to benefit unless they pay - oh well. I understand you want to make money or cover some costs. Maybe put out a video once a month instead of every week and keep it free. I think you’ll lose quite a few viewers - and that’s a shame because I see your name all over the film/DV forums as an excellent web site for learning. It will still be an excellent web site I’m sure, but very few will be viewing it. Good luck with your venture.
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Well, good luck. You deserve money for your work, but I need your tips and instructions!