You Tube is going to start sharing revenue with it's users.

[Chio]

Not sure how it's going to work yet but expect AutoTuber Pro shortly

[Chio]

Forgot the tidbit :

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that his wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

Hurley said one of the major proposed innovations is a way to allow users to be paid for content. YouTube, which was sold to Google for $1.65 billion in November, has become an Internet phenomenon since it began to catch on in late 2005. Some 70 million videos are viewed on the site each day.

"We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," Hurley said. "So in the coming months we are going to be opening that up."

Hurley, who at 30 is one of the youngest Internet multimillionaires, gave no details of how much users might receive, or what mechanism would be used.

[edgeprod]

I ain't coding that. Fuck ya!

[xenilk]

Interesting. Hopefully it will develop into something usefull that people won't abuse. Hey, one can dream!

[edgeprod]

Ok, yes I will.

[DateDoc]

is it sort of a reimbursement for using shared bandwidth through P2P if that is the way they are going?

[4Man]

That is cool..

[Shoehorn!]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

Ok, yes I will.

[Drake]

Sounds interesting

[jacked]

i'm sure they'll do something like pay per user submitted video i doubt they would go as far as a PPV program, cool concept though i'm sure it will draw even more people to use youtube

[Ditosta]

There is a site already paying you for uploading vids based on views
check it out here...http://www.eefoof.com/ they already owe me 6$

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Chio

Not sure how it's going to work yet but expect AutoTuber Pro shortly

probably like http://www.metacafe.com/ does with their producer awards

[germ]

revshare youtube...what a great idea :D

[Contra]

That's cool news. Time to start making short movies -

[Konda]

I have seen some video upload sites that share a % of the revenue that the ads around the video generate with the uploader. Probably YouTube will do something similar?

So if you upload a video, YouTube gives you a % of what the adds that are displayed generate.

[SmokeyTheBear]

i called this along time ago i also offered a million dollar idea that still hasn't been used

[HomerSimpson]

more cash for everyone...
good news

[jryan89]

that sure would be cool. i like that site a lot

[RawAlex]

Umm, dumb question... but if you have a business that has effectively no revenue to speak of (and no hope of being profitable in the next 100 years) what exactly are you sharing?

Youtube is already sounding desperate, and it hasn't been that long since they were sold.

[woj]

interesting...

[wyldworx]

interesting story, my tube is better, and payment is made using the old currency of "shag"......

[OzMan]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Umm, dumb question... but if you have a business that has effectively no revenue to speak of (and no hope of being profitable in the next 100 years) what exactly are you sharing?

Youtube is already sounding desperate, and it hasn't been that long since they were sold.

eyeballs = ad $

I guess we can expect adsense blocks surrounding every video and the video creator gets 5%.

This is perfect timing because I have a shitload of youtube accounts and I have just recently come into posession of some Paris Hilton videos....
mad money yo..