Published on Sep 21, 2024
Vydia is Invite only and very short on details surrounding their platform’s current operations. The offer is somewhat outdated because it was crafted for a time before digital distribution extended to video and social media platforms didn’t have open monetization structures. Today, every music distribution company will monetize the use of an artist’s music across all social media platforms. The platforms themselves now have audio libraries for music to be used in videos and aren’t structured for Content ID in the style of something like YouTube. Music video distribution is serviced through companies like Distrokid, Venice, Ditto, Horus Music, and more.
It’s effectively a content aggregator like Hootsuite where you can schedule videos to be posted on social media platforms on specific dates simultaneously. At the same time, social media platforms now allow you to schedule posts internally so that’s unnecessary. Plus, even if simultaneously posting across multiple platforms appealed to you, as mentioned, there’s Houtsuite which a much better option for that type of service than Vydia.
Out of all distribution options, they’ve got the worst Trustpilot score with no ratings between 1 star and 5 with 92% at 1 star. The problems most often stated are withholding payments sighting system upgrades, lack of transparency, and other service issues. We take reviews with a grain of salt regarding things like streaming fraud and poor customer service because it’s common to get that across all digital distributors. Our eyes open when there are service complaints outside of those two issues that aren’t due to streaming fraud accusations.
Vydia’s FAQ is uninformative. You can’t find out what percentage of revenue you’re entitled to keep. I have an email from when I requested the information back in 2019 where they stated the revenue split to be 65% - 35% but they don’t have it stated anywhere on their website. It’s not in their FAQ, Terms of agreement, or anywhere I looked. Transparency is a major issue.
Vydia charges for an annual fee which combines distribution and storage. Other distributors don’t have storage caps.
500 GB free
5 GB 1 profile $20
10 GB 2 profile $35
20 GB 5 profile $70
50 GB 10 profile $150
100 GB 20 profile $250
500 GB 50 profile $1,100