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[JGauthier]

Obviously Im late to the party but You Tube just offered me revenue sharing on one of my posted videos... HUH?

A friend's friend said he was LIVING off his Ebay revenue, and his vids do have huge hits, but I thought BULLSHIT...

Nope... Im wrong?

Anybody able to confirm or add to this info? Anybody getting REAL money off you tube videos?


I was more surprised until I read that they post ads on your vid and thats the source of revenue relative to traffic...

Anyone else getting You tube checks?

[MDM,]

nope, but I'm interested now..

will ask a friend who gets a lot of hits

[JGauthier]

I just followed through with the email and sign up and apparently its 100% legit.

They place ads next to your video then you get a cut of traffic from your page on those ads.

Probably not much $$$ unless you get sneaky!

They make you agree to NOT click your own ads, not link to the ads on your page, etc... So if you have a shitload of friends...

[danickstr]

Google owns them, so I wouldn't use "gmail" to invite your friends to help you rob Google of their cash by clicking on your vids, but it must be legit since Google has bazillions of dollars of advertiser dollars.

[John Ivan]

Pardon my ignorance on this subject..

Are you referring to "any user" that has a channel?  What if a person is posting other peoples works? I've seen entire Concert DVD's posted on peoples' channels.. Unless the copyright owner is doing the posting, isn't this a violation?

Maybe I'm off track here. If it's your own stuff, great. But are they paying people for traffic to channels that contain other peoples' copyrighted material?

Thanks..........

Ivan................

[danickstr]

Any channel that has merit for whatever reason, pop culture, education, etc. can earn revenue.  you tube vids that violate copyright infringement are tagged and "dealt with" in various ways, either warned or unauthorized audio/video shut down, or removed.  They seem fairly savvy at it, so it would stand to reason that if the vid is not original and violates copyrights they would dock your pay of the click revenue.

[JGauthier]

danickstr wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 17:10

Any channel that has merit for whatever reason, pop culture, education, etc. can earn revenue.  you tube vids that violate copyright infringement are tagged and "dealt with" in various ways, either warned or unauthorized audio/video shut down, or removed.  They seem fairly savvy at it, so it would stand to reason that if the vid is not original and violates copyrights they would dock your pay of the click revenue.

Yup. They have to review the video first and decide if its legit.

Its easy- if they aren't sure, they deny it.