Comments on: YouTube makes its power play

By: Rohan Pinto

Rohan Pinto — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:38:10 +0000

Well, http://konkan.tv may not be a giga-sized website, but http://konkan.tv, a viral video site thats targetted at the south asian community is the first of it’s kind to give back every cent in profits back to the community which makes it succeed.

By: Micki Krimmel

Micki Krimmel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:36:37 +0000

It's true that we are excited by the news. We're jumping up and down in our tiny cubicles. :) The fact that YouTube is moving in this direction is good for all creators though I think GZ's point above raises an interesting question.

Revver's business model was built upon the idea that creators deserve to be rewarded for their contributions to the network. The system is completely democratic. We don't struggle with copyright issues and we share revenue with both creators and sharers of video. Because of our creator-friendly TOS, many independent artists have found a happy home for their work on Revver and some have done quite well financially.

It will be interesting to see how YouTube rolls out their revenue-sharing model and how that piece of the puzzle fits into the larger marketplace.

By: Spud

Spud — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:11:13 +0000

I like this move by Google / YouTube. It was always going to happen once oogle got involved, especially as the likes of MetaCafe have implemented there scheme successfully. Now I just have to create some cool vids and watcht eh $'s roll in.

By: petabro

petabro — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:01:36 +0000

Google/Youtube has made too many magazine covers in the last 12 months

By: Gizmodo

Gizmodo — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:27:50 +0000

YouTube to Pay Users For Their Vids…

Om Malik writes that Youtube will be rolling out a pay system for user videos. Looks like those Jason Chen unpantsing videos are going to make him a mint.–Brian Lam Youtube Rising [GigaOM]…

By: Willem

Willem — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:48:51 +0000

I am wondering how people react on this kind of monatization if the driver has been online collectivism

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:24:48 +0000

I guess some of the users could and should make a nice living, especially if they are creating good content that others enjoy.

I mean those are the folks who are making a go of it in Metacafe and Revver's case, so why not YouTube.

By: Willem

Willem — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:23:04 +0000

Are YouTube users in for the money?

By: tomo

tomo — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:05:25 +0000

This decision is another step in the direction of not only free internet access for end users, but also compensating them for their time…ie, paying users to go online and then selling the ability to access them to marketers.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:35:11 +0000

Billy

interesting point is that we are going to see them make the "sharing move" given their traffic volume and their "market leader" status, they would be able to monetize the creations better.

which means that the share the monies to the creators could be higher. Hypothetically speaking of course.