Welcome to mediatipper.com. Our mission is straightforward—to revolutionize the
online media distribution model from a “forced pay to play” transaction model to
a 100% voluntary model. To many executives in the media industry they will look
at us and come to the conclusion that we are nuts. Giving the fans 100% control
in determining the price of content. No, we are not nuts. We are no different than
the average consumer out there. We believe if you create enough value for consumers,
they will respond appropriately.
Here are some of our opinions and motivations behind starting mediatipper.com
We find it absurd that most songs and dvds are all priced the same regardless of
the quality of the content. If you do not believe us, go into your local record
or video store or go online and most items are priced all the same. Could you imagine
paying the same price for a Honda Civic as you would pay for a Ferrari? Who wouldn’t
be in the business of producing fake Honda Civics if they could charge prices 50%
less than the price of a Ferrari?
The amount of quality music and video will grow exponentially over the next few
years. This content explosion is largely due to low cost/high production digital
tools that are available to anyone wishing to record music, design a video game,
or create an online video clip.
Incomes for the average fan around the world are either stagnant or growing at a
very slow rate. Simply put, there is not going to be enough dollars to chase all
of this media content. Content creators will have to realize that they will have
to find other alternative ways to make money. Mediatipper.com’s philosophy is to
create and offer tools, resources, and systems which allow content creators to generate
more money. We do this at no charge to the artist.
For those of us who understand the basic laws of supply and demand, if supply increases
and demand remains fairly constant, prices for media will go down considerably to
the point that all our existing online media distribution models will fail to be
economically viable. The same thing happened to the telephone long distance industry.
It took less than 15 years for the cost of a long distance call to go to virtually
zero thanks to the internet. Do you honestly believe it’s going to be any different
for online media?
Tipping is theoretically optional, but has become so common in many cultures that
in reality most people receiving a service routinely do it and most people providing
a service expect it. Millions of people are tippling billions of dollars every year.
Tipping is a proven and legitimate economic phenomenon. For more interesting information
on the social norm of tipping visit www.oferazar.com
There will probably never be a technical solution to curb the amount of online media
piracy. What “technology giveth technology taketh”. We feel that in order to change
people’s habits about illegal downloading you must give them complete control to
do what is right in the first place. We believe that the human spirit is one of
giving not taking. In our opinion people buy pirated media or download songs illegally
because the originals costs way too much relative to their fixed discretionary incomes.
Secondly, people do it because it has become socially normal or accepted. Mediatipper.com’s
primary goal is to change this behavior so that it becomes socially acceptable to
give and not take. We feel that they only way that this can be done is if you give
the fan or end user complete control on whether or not they Tipload.
The micro or nano payment industry is in its infancy. In the next 5 years we predict
that you will be able to Tipload in amounts less than 1 cent. Although the amount
of spending on various forms of media entertainment will probably only grow modestly,
the share of the dollars will be spread out among more content creators.
If you share our vision and would like to be apart of our community’s success we
welcome your participation.
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A Revolution has begun in the music, video,
movie, software industry… It's mediatipper.com.
You've heard the terms Download and Upload. We
are proud to introduce you to a new concept "TiploadSM"!
You now have the power to easily sample
progressive music, videos, games or software and
VOLUNTARILY TiploadSM the artist or content
creator what you feel their material is worth.
You are free to choose what you tip if at all.
The goal of mediatipper is to reinforce and/or
change people's attitudes about giving. 100% of
ALL tips go directly to the content creators.
Our site only generates money from a few
advertisers and we share 50% of that money with
all music artists and video creators who upload
their content. Please remember, it's not the tip
amount that counts but the thought and act which
matters more.
We welcome all music artists,
content creators, and online media fans. |
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