I just started using pivotshare for the first time this week and so far so good. On the plus side, there is no cost of any kind to list your film with them...nothing up front, and
no monthly fees. They take 35% of your sales.
They provide you with a webpage that is all yours
(here's ours) and each film that you list with them has a unique embed code which allows you to put it on your own website.
As a side note, we like the fact that you can upload your films to pivotshare via dropbox.
We also just listed one of our films with distrify.com...the first film is free (no startup costs), but any additional films require a monthly fee. You can also embed it. (
here's what theirs looks like) Unlike pivitshare, you can NOT use dropbox to upload videos to distrify, and their free service is for download RENTALS only...no sales.
We also started an account with chill.com (no fees either), BUT they require that you offer "bundle" sales...for example you might want to sell t-shirts and CDs...(which YOU have to ship)...they take a cut of your bundles too. We ended up cancelling our chill account, as shipping the "bundles" is something that we didn't want to get into. If you go to the chill website, you will see that they handle several videos from comedians and other performers.
We have also been looking at a no-frills company called gumroad, which seems to have a lot of good things going for it...no upfront fees, no monthly fees.