Google wants your video AGAIN!
In August 2005 I blogged about the new Google Video service. Then Google went and bought YouTube and it looked like GoogleVideo might be a dead duck.
Then Google announced that they would be transforming Google Video into a general video search tool, listing videos from both GoogleVideo and YouTube and potentially other video hosting services such as MySpace (my speculation) .
Now we're beginning to see the full story of Google's plans for YouTube. It is planning on introducing a revenue sharing model (similar to AdSense) for video producers.
Basically, if you host a video on YouTube and people click the ads on that page, and if you are the sole copyright owner of the video, you will get a percentage of the revenue generated by the clicks. I estimate that this will be around 75% of the revenue to start with but will probably drop slowly over time (based on speculation of how the AdSense model works).
So if your video becomes huge, you stand to make a fair bit of cash from it all.
If it works, then YouTube will become THE place to post your content, and the amount of great content on there should blossom. In theory anyway - and with Google's track record I have no reason to think otherwise.
C'mon you creatives. Get filming!
Then Google announced that they would be transforming Google Video into a general video search tool, listing videos from both GoogleVideo and YouTube and potentially other video hosting services such as MySpace (my speculation) .
Now we're beginning to see the full story of Google's plans for YouTube. It is planning on introducing a revenue sharing model (similar to AdSense) for video producers.
Basically, if you host a video on YouTube and people click the ads on that page, and if you are the sole copyright owner of the video, you will get a percentage of the revenue generated by the clicks. I estimate that this will be around 75% of the revenue to start with but will probably drop slowly over time (based on speculation of how the AdSense model works).
So if your video becomes huge, you stand to make a fair bit of cash from it all.
If it works, then YouTube will become THE place to post your content, and the amount of great content on there should blossom. In theory anyway - and with Google's track record I have no reason to think otherwise.
C'mon you creatives. Get filming!