SELLER FAQs

PROMOTING ON RIGHTSTRADE

What is the RightsTrade marketplace?

The RightsTrade marketplace is an online marketplace for film, TV and digital media rights licensing. It provides you with innovative ways to promote, screen and sell your content to thousands of buyers with detailed analytics on buyer activity.



Do RightsTrade's buyers go through any vetting process?

Buyers' company applications will be scrutinized through a vetting process that will check their identity and the accuracy of their company details and acquisition activities. To this end, buyers are asked to verify their company’s professional credentials by listing some recent activity including any of the following:

  • Acquired titles
  • Companies acquired from
  • Acquisition territories
  • Film market accreditation
  • Other credentials or professional references



Do you provide a Seller's instruction manual?

Yes, you can find the Sellers Manual in your "Company Profile" menu, which has detailed explanations about how to use our platform. You can also contact us at info@rightstrade.com with any additional questions.



How can I communicate my available rights?

RightSearch™ allows our community of vetted buyers to search for your title's available rights. You will also be able to automatically generate your own title availability reports to assist your marketing and sales efforts. Simply add search parameters such as rights group, territory, and date to searches in order to immediately pull avails for those criteria.



How do I connect with buyers on the platform?

There are many different ways to connect with buyers on RightsTrade. Sellers can maximize sales opportunities from 5000+ buyers.

Buyer-outreach: Vetted buyers on RightsTrade have the ability to browse titles and then make inquiries and request screeners. When a buyer finds your content via your title page or a RightSearch, they can reach out directly on any titles of interest. Any member of your company has the ability to approve or deny a screener request.

Seller-outreach: You can reach out to specific buyers with targeted screeners based on availability by territory and rights.

RightsTrade Marketing: In addition, RightsTrade offers data-driven marketing campaigns to connect buyers and sellers with similar interests. Analytics powered recommendation campaigns drive activity on seller titles.



How do I find relevant buyers?

RightsTrade has more than 5,000 buyers across 125 countries who span all key distribution territories and channels. This includes companies that buy for television, streaming platforms, airlines, international, studios, theatrical and all rights. To find buyers that are most relevant for your content, you can use the Browse tool for Companies that allows you to filter by rights and acquisition region: https://rightstrade.com/ui/Pages/Browse/Companies.aspx



Looking for something? Search by keywords here

SCREENING ON RIGHTSTRADE

Why should I use this screening room?

There are other screening rooms in the market. We believe the RightsTrade is the best solution for content sellers for several reasons:

  • Quality - RightsTrade provides a high quality cloud-based platform; viewable on major devices and browsers
  • Security - Advanced security features assure that each screener is protected and traceable through personalized watermarks. You can also set date/time parameters, limitations on number of views, number of devices used and IP targeting.
  • Analytics - View user activity to analyze data and follow up on sales/allocate marketing expenses
  • Service - maintained by expert team of developers and industry professionals, responsive to user needs and requests.



How secure is the screening room?

To achieve the highest level of security possible, our backend security captures detailed information of each screener view. This information includes a unique user ID number, email address, device used, IP address and geo-targeting, allowing us to identify and trace every screening that occurs. Every RightsTrade screener is also secured by the following mechanisms:

  1. A screener requires an AUTHORIZATION be granted to the viewing user by any SELLER/ADMIN at the rights-holding company.
  2. The AUTHORIZATION is tied to the viewer’s account credentials (username/password)
  3. The AUTHORIZATION is time-limited to a specified date-range and access can be limited down to the minute
  4. The AUTHORIZATION can optionally be limited to a certain number of views
  5. The AUTHORIZATION can be optionally limited to a certain number of “devices” (browser/computer combination). So for example, you can limit the authorization to only three devices (eg: Work computer, home computer, and iPad). If the user tries to view on a fourth device, they will be unable.
Our advanced security features also include watermarking of the buyers name across the screener, the size and placement of which can be preset by the sales company. Our screening room is powered by Amazon S3, the leading web-services interface developed by Amazon Web Services to store and retrieve any data from the web. Amazon S3 is compliant with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) set of best practices for securely storing, processing, and delivering protected media and content.



How should I send you my video assets?

We will securely handle the transcode/upload process of your film from any format. In order to get started, contact us at info@rightstrade.com and our client support managers will walk you through the asset delivery process.



Can I invite buyers that are not registered at RightsTrade to watch my films?

Of course! You can invite any of your contacts to screen and they will be taken directly to your screener. They will be able to watch the screener by simply providing a username and password.



I just sent a screener invitation - how do I track activity?

RightsTrade offers extensive analytics and a responsive dashboard where you can see who has viewed your screeners. You can find this information under Account >> Titles & Screeners. From there, you can filter by title and date range to see your screener invites, plays, total view time, and average view time.



How do I set up and upload my content?

To list your content on RightsTrade, you will first need to be an active subscriber. To get your titles up and listed on the platform, simply send along your metadata, key art, screeners, and avails, and we take care of the rest.

RightsTrade also ties in seamlessly with FilmTrack StarCM & avails. Contact us for more information at info@rightstrade.com to begin set up.



How do I track who has viewed my screeners?

Your screener invitations are retained for you to search and explore. You will be able to filter searches by title, user, authorization and expiration dates. You can also edit invitations that have already been sent in order to revoke or extend the authorization.



RIGHTSTRADE ACCOUNT FAQs

What is the RightsTrade marketplace?

The RightsTrade marketplace is an online marketplace for film, TV and digital media rights licensing. It provides you with innovative ways to promote, screen and sell your content to thousands of buyers with detailed analytics on buyer activity.



Do RightsTrade's buyers go through any vetting process?

Buyers' company applications will be scrutinized through a vetting process that will check their identity and the accuracy of their company details and acquisition activities. To this end, buyers are asked to verify their company’s professional credentials by listing some recent activity including any of the following:

  • Acquired titles
  • Companies acquired from
  • Acquisition territories
  • Film market accreditation
  • Other credentials or professional references



Do you provide a Seller's instruction manual?

Yes, you can find the Sellers Manual in your "Company Profile" menu, which has detailed explanations about how to use our platform. You can also contact us at info@rightstrade.com with any additional questions.



How can I communicate my available rights?

RightSearch™ allows our community of vetted buyers to search for your title's available rights. You will also be able to automatically generate your own title availability reports to assist your marketing and sales efforts. Simply add search parameters such as rights group, territory, and date to searches in order to immediately pull avails for those criteria.



How do I connect with buyers on the platform?

There are many different ways to connect with buyers on RightsTrade. Sellers can maximize sales opportunities from 5000+ buyers.

Buyer-outreach: Vetted buyers on RightsTrade have the ability to browse titles and then make inquiries and request screeners. When a buyer finds your content via your title page or a RightSearch, they can reach out directly on any titles of interest. Any member of your company has the ability to approve or deny a screener request.

Seller-outreach: You can reach out to specific buyers with targeted screeners based on availability by territory and rights.

RightsTrade Marketing: In addition, RightsTrade offers data-driven marketing campaigns to connect buyers and sellers with similar interests. Analytics powered recommendation campaigns drive activity on seller titles.



How do I find relevant buyers?

RightsTrade has more than 5,000 buyers across 125 countries who span all key distribution territories and channels. This includes companies that buy for television, streaming platforms, airlines, international, studios, theatrical and all rights. To find buyers that are most relevant for your content, you can use the Browse tool for Companies that allows you to filter by rights and acquisition region: https://rightstrade.com/ui/Pages/Browse/Companies.aspx



RightsTrade is also an integrated partner with FilmTrack, the leading end-to-end rights management solution. If you have questions about this integration, please see our FilmTrack FAQs.

If you have film & television content you'd like to start selling on RightsTrade, please schedule a demo to find out more about listing and licensing with the platform:

If you have additional questions not answered in our FAQs, please contact us using the form below or directly at info@rightstrade.com. We appreciate your feedback.