YouTubers to get ad money share
By lastwish
@lastwish (779)
India
January 28, 2007 1:56am CST
People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue.
YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would "reward creativity".
The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.
YouTube has more than 70m users a month and was recently bought by Google.
The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website.
Will you move to youtube?
3 responses
@booster20002005 (283)
• India
28 Jun 07
This will be cool as when the site was sold for 1.6 Bil. $ no contributor was rewarded for their efforts not even the high contributors, but now as they are paying the members who provided the content it will be great.
The web 2.0 is all about the user generated content, mylot is paying it's members from the start and is encouraging the members.
MYLOT RULEZ.
@ladymoonstone143 (1507)
• United States
30 Jan 07
I hope this will happen because I use youtube everyday...but I will believe when they started it and I can see it for myself.
@Eisenherz (2908)
• Portugal
29 Jan 07
I am already enrolled with YouTube and would like to see if this would come a possibility someday. I find it very hard though, there's millions of people subscribing to YouTube and I don't see the big monopoly guys really wanting to share anything for anyone. This is what I call propaganda...
