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YouTube wants to share revenue with its video uploaders

Chad Hurley, co-founder of the popular Internet video sharing web site YouTube, said that the company is working on a plan for users who upload videos to be paid for their contributions.  The revenue would be paid only to those who have full copyright of the video they are sharing.  The system would use advertisements that may be shown before the actual video clip, according to Hurley.  "We are getting an audience that is large enough to give us an opportunity to support and foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," said Hurley during the World Economic Forum.

While the co-founders originally believed that revenue-sharing would make a community that is more interested in making money rather than helping the site grow, they now believe financial assets will further improve the content shown on the site.

Hurley did not mention how much video uploaders will receive for their efforts.  The revenue-sharing system should be implemented in a trial period within several months.  

YouTube looks to have a very busy 2007, with the revenue-sharing campaign and copyright-related activities as two of the bigger projects for the site.  The company is working on technology that is able to identify copyrighted videos uploaded by users, and is working on some sort of audio fingerprinting so record labels are properly paid.

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YES!
By KaiserCSS on 1/28/2007 4:05:01 AM , Rating: 3
Let the money start flowing in!

=D




RE: YES!
By hecksign on 1/28/2007 10:02:20 AM , Rating: 2
the youtube have been growing from small to big right now. with this payout, youtube will be HUGE with lots of people with different talents showing their videos to the world by uploading their videos to youtube. but, even without the payment, users still upload their videos because its free. These payout will be a big plus to users of youtube. big thanks to youtube for this update. Technology is great. :))


RE: YES!
By Scabies on 1/28/2007 1:07:40 PM , Rating: 4
I'm under the impression that EVERYONE will start uploading crap (that no one will want to see,) leading to an extremely low views-per-upload ratio, and making it more difficult to search things out accurately. We'll see.


RE: YES!
By hadifa on 1/28/2007 6:36:56 PM , Rating: 2
I guess and it only makes sense if the payment is based on the number of viewers. This may result in increase in some higher quality content but it will definitely leads to some misleading tags and titles to increase the number of viewers.

As you said, the site can be easily be plagued with something similar to email spammers. They should be very careful about implementing this or they will be losing advertisers, viewers and bandwidth.


RE: YES!
By jtesoro on 1/29/2007 11:10:54 AM , Rating: 3
quote:
I'm under the impression that EVERYONE will start uploading crap...

That's not much different from today if you ask me.


Ramifications
By CrumbBum on 1/28/2007 7:06:49 AM , Rating: 2
I can see this leading to problems for those uploading copyrighted material. If they are receiving revenue for posting the material it could really put them in jeopardy.




RE: Ramifications
By ss284 on 1/28/2007 2:37:05 PM , Rating: 2
Good job actually reading the article!


RE: Ramifications
By Ralph The Magician on 1/28/2007 5:42:34 PM , Rating: 2
It's even worse than that. I mean, if you make a video...then I just copy it and re-upload it, or copy it and brand it my own and re-upload it, and then I spam it all over the place and make hundreds of dollars off it...is that right? Clearly not.

What's also going to happen is people uploading copyrighted content, such as Daily Show clips, are probably going to start being sued directly.


Google Pay
By jtesoro on 1/28/2007 7:48:50 AM , Rating: 5
How is Google Pay doing? I've got a feeling Google and YouTube will use this revenue sharing scheme to kick-start usage of Google Pay so it becomes a more viable online payment method.




Whatever
By edge929 on 1/29/2007 11:59:59 AM , Rating: 3
YouTube WAS good back in the day before it became mainstream and got the attention of big business. They came in and made sure all copyrighted stuff was removed. Don't they realize by allowing their stuff to be viewed on YouTube they are HELPING themselves, not hurting. Hell, I never saw every episode of Dragonball Z on TV but on YouTube I did and I went out and bought the entire set of DVDs because I liked them so much. Had it not been for YouTube I would have never done that.

Don't they want more people to see their stuff?




Goodbye Hollywood
By BladeVenom on 1/28/2007 7:48:46 AM , Rating: 2
Hopefully this succeeds and revolutionizes the entertainment industry. We will have a more democratic system for deciding what shows get to market.




Example
By crystal clear on 1/28/2007 10:24:35 AM , Rating: 2
Metacafe's scheme pays producers $5 for every thousand views a video gets on the site. It starts to pay out after it reaches 20,000 views, implying a minimum payment of $100.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ...





Hmmm...
By daftrok on 1/28/2007 12:08:03 PM , Rating: 2
What about all the UN-copyrighted material on Youtube? Lets not deny the fact that a lot of us go to Youtube to watch episodes we missed on television and whatnot. If there is this copyright catch, people will start to go legit and the shows/clips that were copyrighted and shown without these rights will slowly start to dwindle.




SPAM
By 3kliksphilip on 1/28/2007 12:37:38 PM , Rating: 2
If you're paid per view, expect a massive amount of spam across the internet, linking you to people's videos. Hopefully it's based off views AND ratings. Hey, while we're at it, why not deduct money from people who submit rubbish videos?




Is this optional?
By Fox5 on 1/28/2007 10:59:49 PM , Rating: 2
If this is a mandatory thing....
IE:
Do you have the rights to upload this video? Yes|No

Then this could cut out a lot of stuff on Youtube, since anyone who hits no could just have their video denied, and anyone who hits yes would face legal responsibility.




Revver's Idea
By Fissiongrid on 1/29/2007 12:24:30 AM , Rating: 2
Revver has had this idea for a while now. It's nothing new. Youtube putting it into their site might take Revver off the map though.




let the YouPorn begin!!
By nurbsenvi on 1/28/07, Rating: -1
RE: let the YouPorn begin!!
By mindless1 on 1/28/07, Rating: -1
RE: let the YouPorn begin!!
By Hoser McMoose on 1/29/2007 3:09:21 PM , Rating: 3
LOL! I'm glad I'm not the only perv who's first thought on reading this was "Sweet! Now even more dirty-girls will be submitting their home-made pr0n!"


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