FAQ

mediaCastpro. is a closed footage marketplace, aimed at professionals who work in the creation of video content for any purpose, platform or user. It is a B2B meeting point between those who sell and those looking for videos. In the marketplace you can sell or buy videos for distribution online, offline, on TV, on the web or on social networks.

Registration is free, for both buyers and sellers. Only on sales actually concluded, the seller has to pay a sales commission.

The service is aimed at the B2B world of professionals working in video creation and distribution. You must register, demonstrating that you are a business and not an end consumer, either to buy or to sell.

Registration is necessary to offer a quality service, and it is an added value for the shots on sale, as they can never be previewed by non-professional end consumers.

The service does not sell or buy videos but offers the possibility of being able to do so to registered professionals. The formula used is that of intermediation between the parties, and this designates our platform as a marketplace. Indeed: footage marketplace!

You can sell and find videos on any topic: events, fairs, shows, news stories, people, politics, cities, landscapes, sports, etc. The requirements for selling video material on the marketplace are basically two:

• the video must have a format (codec, resolution, etc.) supported by our site
• the seller must have the requisites established by law to be able to distribute and sell the video, without violating any rules, for example relating to privacy or copyright.

mediaCastpro. could be used as a microstock service, but its purpose is still different:

• mediaCastpro. is designed for the sale of video shots of specific and various topics, such as things, people, events, facts and everything that is deemed to be documented or used for commercial purposes.
• The video shots can be composed of several clips of various lengths and can be directly generated by videocameras/cameras of various kinds (except for the need for transcoding/editing via computer).
• mediaCastpro. is proposed only to professionals in a B2B sales and purchase market, is closed to the public and requires registration. A closed platform that is not open to the public allows you to give video footage a greater value as it is not publicly disclosed but judged and sold only among professionals.
• mediaCastpro. is a marketplace that allows sellers to independently choose licenses and selling price of proposed video footage.

The videos are organized into categories (such as landscapes, sports, cities or disasters) and each shot has a title, description, tags and sales licenses with relative prices. All of these data are chosen by the seller. Thanks to the search bar on each page, you can search for videos by title, description, tag or category very easily.

Each video is sold with one or more of the following licenses, at the seller's discretion:

• Standard license for editorial use: the video can be sold to multiple buyers, who will be able to use it for editorial purposes.
• Standard license for commercial use: the video can be sold to multiple buyers, who will be able to use it for commercial purposes.
• Exclusive license for editorial use: the video can be sold to a single user who will therefore have the exclusive rights, and can be used for editorial purposes.
• Exclusive license for commercial use: the video can be sold to a single user who will therefore have the exclusive rights, and can be used for commercial purposes.

Videos may be resold by the buyer only if purchased under an exclusive license. For more information, see Section 7 of the General Conditions.

The site allows the activation of the following optional paid services:

• Premium (for sellers): allows the seller to have his own page containing all the shots for sale and to improve the positioning in searches.
• Corporate (for sellers and buyers): allows you to share a company profile between multiple accounts. In this way, different people can work for a single company having visibility of everything sold or purchased by other people of the same company. One or more managers can also check the work of all the accounts entered within the company profile.
• Priority (for buyers): allows you to subscribe to the sellers you find most interesting. If the seller accepts the subscription, you will be able to receive priority videos from that seller. Priority videos are videos not publicly available on the site that can be purchased by a certain date and at a certain price defined by the seller. At the end of this period, the video may be made available to everyone or it may disappear, depending on what the seller chooses. The seller may propose the same priority video to more than one account.

Of course, the Premium, Priority and Corporate optional services are activated free of charge for all new profiles for a duration of 6 months. At the end of the promotional period, the optional services are automatically deactivated at no cost.

A manager with decision-making powers within the company can join mediaCastpro. creating the company profile. Later, he can activate the Corporate optional service to allow other users to register on mediaCastpro. using the company profile he created and managed. The link to allow the registration of other accounts to be included in the company profile is accessible from the company management page.
Each account included in the company profile will belong to one of the following three levels:

• Referent: this level is reserved for the account that created the company profile.
• Management: the accounts in this level can enter other accounts within the company, decide the permissions for each of them and add payment cards.
• Operational: accounts in this level can buy or sell only if explicitly enabled and can only use payment cards previously entered by management accounts or by the referent account.

All accounts within the company will be able to access the list of all accounts incorporated and will be able to see the buying and selling activities of all of them. Files purchased from one account can also be downloaded by all others.

The Priority optional service must be activated by a potential buyer. Once activated, it allows the potential buyer to send subscription requests to all those sellers that he considers interesting. Each seller who receives the request can decide whether to accept it or not. Once a request has been accepted by the seller, the seller has the right (but not the obligation) to send priority media to the buyer. A priority media is a media that, for a certain well-defined period of time chosen by the seller (for example 3 days), is not publicly visible on the site but can only be viewed and purchased by potential buyers to whom this media has been given in priority. Once the aforementioned time has elapsed, the media may be publicly offered for sale or totally removed, at the seller's discretion.
Please note:

• The videos in priority can only be purchased with an exclusive license.
• The seller may decide to send a priority media to more than one potential buyer. In this case, the buyer is warned of this situation by a specific icon. The first user who buys the media wins it and prevents others from being able to buy it.
• The price for the purchase of the priority media may differ from the price that will eventually be requested if and when the media is publicly offered for sale on the site. At the discretion of the seller, it could be the same, lower or higher.

The company that operates mediaCastpro. is an Italian company (netMtech srl) which as such is required to apply the GDPR, i.e. EU Regulation 2016/679. This regulation stipulates that collected personal data can be transmitted to non-EU countries without explicit consent of the user only if there is an adequacy decision of the European Commission for the country in question or adequate safeguards as per Articles 45 and 46 of the GDPR. While adequacy decisions from the European Commission exist for the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and several other countries, this is not true for the United States, for which explicit user consent must therefore be obtained.

The buyer is obliged to use the purchased material in compliance with the selected license of use and the current legislation: in case of non-compliant use, he is personally liable, relieving the service from any liability.

Payments by credit/debit cards are accepted only. Card data can be saved in the user's profile in order to speed up any subsequent purchases.

Unfortunately, you can't. The price is set by the seller in the licenses chosen by him.

You can contact us and agree a price with us to send you a hard disk with the files you purchased.

The seller is responsible for everything he/she uploads: in the event of uploading illegal content or for which he/she does not have appropriate authorization, as well as in the case of false or inaccurate descriptions, responds personally, relieving the service of any responsibility.

The sales commission, on each transaction, is calculated as a percentage of the net amount (i.e. exclusive of VAT and taxes) paid by the buyer. The percentage is 25% for sellers in the euro zone and 30% for sellers outside the euro zone.

Registration as a seller entitles you to 1 TB of space for free. If you upload excellent quality videos that are easily sold, contact us and we may provide you with additional space.

If you have made any sales during a month, the following month you will have to issue an invoice to the company that manages mediaCastpro and thus receive a cumulative bank transfer of all the amounts collected the previous month, deducted only of the sales commissions applied. As soon as it is time to be paid, you will receive an e-mail and be guided step-by-step in issuing the invoice and receiving the money.

You can contact us and we will provide you with an Italian address to send a hard disk with the files you want to upload. We will upload the files to the site and you will only have to enter metadata and prices.

Each upload can include one or more files which must however respect the following constraints:

• The resolution must be at least 640x400 pixels
• There must be no more than 16 audio tracks per file
• The duration must be at least 1 second. Files shorter than one second will be ignored and will not be offered for sale.
• The total duration (i.e. the sum of the durations of the individual files) must be less than 2 hours
• The total number of files must be less than 500
• All files must share the same video format (codec, resolution, frame rate, data rate)
• All files must share the same audio format (codec, sample rate, number of audio tracks, mono/stereo configuration)
• All files must share the same container format (e.g. mp4, mxf, ...)

Of course, it is also possible to upload a single file, which must in any case respect the constraints (for instance, about duration and resolution) mentioned above.
While it is in our best interest to try to support as many formats as possible, there is no guarantee that all of them will be properly accepted by the platform. In case you upload something unsupported, an automatic email will notify you of the error encountered.