Sell with a SmartLink
Share one link anywhere, your site, social, email, and let people pay to watch. No streaming platform to build.
Sell your film directly to your audience.
Release on your own terms. Set the price, choose the territories, keep the audience data, and keep 90% of every sale. A streaming platform for filmmakers who want to sell films online without a distributor.
Ugly Little Monkeys chose Hiway over a traditional distributor, and kept control of audience, data and revenue.
What you can do
Everything a release needs. Nothing you have to build.
Screener rooms
Send secure, code-protected screeners to festivals, buyers and press. See exactly who watched.
Know your audience
Every buyer is your customer, not the platform's. Names, countries, devices, watch time, all yours.
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Customer story
Ugly Little Monkeys
- The goal
- An award-winning documentary, five years in the making, released on the filmmakers' own terms rather than through a traditional distributor.
- What Hiway provided
- A Hiway SmartPlayer embedded in the film's own website, pay-per-view pricing, detailed analytics and full ownership of audience data.
- The result
- Released direct to audiences worldwide in June 2026, the filmmakers keep control of distribution, data and revenue.
“Hiway puts you in control of your content where you retain an extremely favourable amount of your film sales. Their analytics are incredibly detailed. Truly worth looking at.”
How it works
Three steps.
Upload your film
Drop in the master. Add artwork and metadata.
Set your price and territories
Public, private or paid. Choose where it can be watched and when.
Share the link and get paid
Revenue flows to you directly through Stripe.