Comments on: Just 4% of YouTube Videos Come From Partners

By: John Welsh

John Welsh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:37:01 +0000

I am one of the 4% and all I can say is God Bless you Google/Youtube. I only made the videos for my six year old son and YT asked me twice to become a Partner, I really thought it was a scam and that at best I would make a few dollars a month but they do pay very VERY well, they give help and advice via email and phone calls and always pay when supposed to. But then I am one of the most viewed Partners Global.

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YouTube Extends Partner Program to Viral Videomakers « NewTeeVee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:49:16 +0000

[...] percent of videos or video views come from partners, but some have estimated the former number at 4 percent. The other data point we have is that YouTube said way back in May 2008 it had paid more than $1 [...]

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Das Ende von MyVideo und Clipfish? | Digitaler Film — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:31:15 +0000

[...] mit >20% (10 Mio.[PDF] von ca. 50 Mio Video Views) Auslastung weiter sind als YouTube mit ca. 4% der Abrufe (wobei der Prozentsatz mittlerweile deutlich höher liegen dürfte) sind sie doch noch weit von [...]

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More YouTube Ads | Descarga de programas gratis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:34:34 +0000

[...] because they couldn’t make money from this distribution channel. This change will only affect 4% of the videos uploaded to YouTube, but the percentage of views is much more [...]

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Thai Brothers’ Sharing Blog » Blog Archive » More YouTube Ads — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:58:53 +0000

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By: Report: User-Gen to Only Ever Account for 4% of Video Revenue « NewTeeVee

Report: User-Gen to Only Ever Account for 4% of Video Revenue « NewTeeVee — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:47:54 +0000

[...] its partner videos. The site’s partner videos come from both pros and popular amateurs, and reportedly only account for 4 percent of its total videos (but a larger portion of total [...]

By: Pierre Col - UbicMedia

Pierre Col - UbicMedia — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:21:46 +0000

Nate is right : monetizing all the vids, and defining a 5$ minimum payout for video uploaders is the only way for Youtube to make real money. And eventually to be able to pay their servers and IP connectibvity bills (Liz, any real investigation about Youtube technical costs to serve billions of videos would be very interesting).

My opinion is tha creating "Gootube" is the biggest failure in Google's brilliant strategy.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:31:12 +0000

Gary, My take is you want to underestimate the value of an unprecedented audience of happy users. YouTube is having the same problems everyone else is going to have down the line, so it'd be good if they can figure out a better way to make money.

Nate, that's definitely genius. Can I give you my address for you to send my blank (as in empty) check?

By: Nate the Genius

Nate the Genius — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:17:26 +0000

The Tube will make everyone a partner and put advertising on ALL it's (non-infrindging) content. Since most vids are being viewed only a few times, all the other crappy stuff adds up to millions of plays per day, they'll go through the media buys quickly, and need only to pay most producer an average of .0001c...rounded off to 0. It's pretty much all profit from that point on. Long tail advertising with no payouts.

GENIUS!

By: Video Marketing » Mark Cuban tells YouTube how they should make money - Industry Standard

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:05:06 +0000

[...] Just 4% of YouTube Videos Come From Partners - Newteevee.comDo only 4 percent of YouTube videos come from its partners? That’s another tidbit gleaned by the Wall Street Journal from an unnamed source in its story this morning about the site’s problems with monetization. A YouTube spokesperson declined to [...]

By: Gary Bourgeault

Gary Bourgeault — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:40:39 +0000

It's shocking Liz. Shocking, that Google is going to try to make money with their property.

To me it would be a good move to get rid of the dead weight that endlessly uses the site for nothing.

Add some pre-roll and the freeloaders would be gone.

The problem is, where would they go, and who would want them?

All they do is cost bandwidth and maybe give some bragging rights to visitors to the site. But shareholders will increasingly pressure them to monetize the site, whether users want it or not.

In the end, even if Google makes the move, it's not going to cost them anything for the reasons mentioned above.

Not too many companies want people to use their services that reject any type of way to monetize it, so where will they go if they leave YouTube?