Commissions

Connect to a huge pool of worldwide filmmaker talent and then get valuable video promotion across our networks. Radar has created critically acclaimed videos and achieved extraordinary promo results, reaching hundreds of thousands of music video and music fans online.

There are two ways to create music videos; Commissions and Competitions

Commissions
- You set the budget, timescale and the brief
- We invite pitches from over 600 filmmakers worldwide, many of them multi-award winning directors
- We create shortlists for you
- You access specialist online video promotion through our networks to 11 major online video sites and video press release distribution to over 400 specialist online media including Pitchfork TV and MTV.
How much?
- The only thing you pay for is your production budget
- Free to advertise commissions
- Free specialist promotion through our networks
- We deduct 15% commission

Competitions
- No project management – you deliver the creative brief and assets, we do the rest
- Choose a promotion-ready video from competition entries
- Runner-up videos for additional promotion
- Quick turnaround
- You access specialist online video promotion through our networks to 11 major online video sites and video press release distribution to over 400 specialist online media including Pitchfork TV and MTV.
How much?
- Packages start from £6,000 per track.

Testimonials
From labels…
Radar has created music videos for many labels including NinjaTune, Domino, Warp, Mercury, Mute, Independiente and Parlophone and has generated huge views for label videos: The winning Kylie video racked up over 630,000 votes on Dazed and Confused in just one month. Mercury-nominated Maps got over 200,000 views and entered the YouTube top 20 most responded videos of all time. Joff Gladwell (Mute) "we're all really pleased with the Maps video, it's giving us access to a whole lot of extra promotion for the band” Dan Curwin (Mercury): "Just Jack got great attention as a result of working with Radar, including over 45,000 YouTube views in just 3 days"
From unsigned bands…
Johan Sigert, lead singer for unsigned band Swedish For Beginners, says their Radar Coke Music video was “way beyond our expectations”. YouTube comments on their video include: “Superbly crafted, one of the best pop promo vids I've seen”, “world class pop promo, loved it loved it!!!” and “this did everything a pop promo should. top class work”. Their video has been front page feature, MySpace. Unsigned band The Dodoz have got +80,000 views on Radar's YouTube channel.

The commissioning and the competition services are both incredibly simple to set up, just contact Caroline@radarfestival.com for details.