At $10 CPM, that means $100 Million extra in revenues per month. $10 CPM average is a VERY low estimate. Google can very likely achieve $20 or $30 CPM on high quality videos. And more high quality videos WILL be uploaded and created once more creators are able to monetize their Youtube videos.

And don’t tell me user generated content cannot be monetized. That is just BS. UGC generated less CPM than PRO content, of course, but you cannot say they generate nothing.

That would be like saying Adsense for websites doesn’t work for small websites. No it works on all websites. It works just better for websites where visitors tend to buy more stuff and click on more ads. You have ABSOLUTELY NO way to say for sure that the viewer of a User Generated Video has less money to spend on advertisers. In fact, I am pretty sure that people watching UGC on Youtube probably has more money to spend than certain people watching certain brainless Hollywood films.

1. Only citizens of USA, UK, Spain, Japan, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia can yet even APPLY to become Youtube partner, which basically means to be allowed to display advertising on the videos to monetize them.

2. Why is Google at all having that partner program!! How can Google allow any webmaster monetize a blog with Adsense, and then have to somehow only allow people monetize youtube if they apply to become partners?

Don’t tell me video copyrights are more serious than any other Adsense website’s copyrights. You can pirate video on Adsense websites just as well. Google has advanced digital and analog fingerprint detection technology for Youtube videos, so they can simply scan uploaded videos through that system before allowing any specific video to be monetized. And just as for Adsense, any copyright abuse would immediately be undone, user can be banned, and all responsability is then put on the user who illegally tried to profit on copyright infringed contents. Also Google has very solid usage data over many years of usage on Youtube and other Google sites, so it makes no sense that Google would not be able to allow a large part of verified real users and no reason Google cannot ask, just as for Adsense, that new users need to verify their bank account, verify a credit card, verify a home address and more types of verifications, perhaps even charge a fee to get verified through signed contract that has to be mailed in, scanned passport/ID, SMS verification, whatever. Google should have plenty enough of ways to make sure 100x more videos can be monetized.

Bob – good plug for BBQ Pit Boys – would you be willing to share what those rev numbers are?

TK