Motion Picture and Video Distribution
Acquiring distribution rights and distributing film and video productions to motion picture theaters, television networks and stations, other media broadcast and streaming outlets, and exhibitors.
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What's Included
- ✓Motion picture film laboratories
- ✓Stock footage film libraries
- ✓Postproduction facilities
- ✓Teleproduction services
Example Companies
- ●Netflix- Streaming distribution
- ●Disney+- Video streaming
- ●Amazon Prime Video- Video distribution
This Code is NOT For...
NAICS 512120 does not cover the following activities. Use the correct code instead:
Producing and distributing motion pictures and videos
Operating television broadcasting stations, that may acquire the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcast or distribute that content
Providing media streaming distribution services or operating media broadcasting and cable television networks, that may acquire the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcast or distribute that content
Providing cable and satellite television distribution services using facilities and infrastructure that they operate
Merchant wholesale distribution of blank digital video discs (DVDs)
Merchant wholesale distribution of prerecorded digital video discs (DVDs)
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