YouTube To Pay Revenue Share To Video Uploaders
Apparantly, YouTube are planning on rolling out a revenue share system in a couple of months for people who upload their own videos. But before everyone goes and starts uploading tons of videos, you should know it’s exclusively for the uploaders who own the full copyright to the video. There are currently various video sites that run an ad revenue share scheme but none with such a huge audience as YouTube.
YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”.
The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.
YouTube has more than 70m users a month and was recently bought by Google.
The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website.
If revver.com wasn’t around, I wonder if YouTube/Google would still be doing this…