Comments on: Thousands of YouTube partners now make six figures a year http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Coruzzi http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-867273 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-867273 lol. 128 gig RED Mags are $1,250 each.

]]> By: carlso2 http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-866767 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:54:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-866767 To hear that it’s only thousands making 6 figures is sad. The scale of entertainment it provides to the world should provide more earnings potential than that. Youtube is about as popular as TV among some age groups.

This thing should be viewed thru glasses like the app-store model. There is no reason content creators shouldn’t getting 70% of the proceeds that viewing / ads generate. Using Google’s network to play a video should be in line with these other renumeration models.

If they made it more lucrative, then more interesting content will be created. Since Google isn’t a content company, they still don’t really understand this.

They should take a lesson from Steve Jobs, and really allow these various developers to make some money.

I know they survive on taking a ride on everyone’s content with their ad model, but it’s simply too greedy in it’s current form.

]]> By: Dr. B.M http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-866468 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:33:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-866468 A billion for me… 100k for you… another billion for me… 100k for you.
Man I can’t understand how companies like Viacom and Disney, that are usually hard asses just bent over and let their content make YouTube what it is.

]]> By: cas127 http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-866020 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:51:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-866020 “Thousands of YouTube partners are making over $100,000 a year”

Yeah…but they are making it on *YouTube”…they could have a lot of already rich partners coming in…

I know that is a Clintonian spin on the statement…but I am always very suspicious of any entity that talks about how wonderful things are – but for some ill-defined reason always declines to provide specific numbers/information.

For example, let’s talk specifics about the NY Times paywall subscribers…well, we can’t, can we?

Because the NYT (“All the News We See Fit to Print”) provides *very few* specific numbers (what is their churn for instance?)

Why?

]]> By: Janko Roettgers http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-865983 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:51:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-865983 Yeah, I’m not exactly sure how those Vevo artists are going to use their gift cards :)

]]> By: Mike Rotman http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/thousands-of-youtube-publishers-now-make-six-figures-a-year/#comment-865977 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:42:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544691#comment-865977 Most of those channels are using Red and Scarlet’s so sort of odd to offer them $500 gift cards for video equipment. Maybe for the memory cards?

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