Strike It Rich With YouTube
Ever think to yourself “Man what a great short film this would make” or “If I could only get my movie out there”? Me neither, but apparently some people are very interested in expressing themselves through film whether it is some backyard wrestling, a gaming stunt video or LonelyGirl15. Soooooo, when I read today that YouTube was going to start sharing revenue with users I was pretty excited because its a really good idea. Not only will it keep people coming back but you know someone is going to get really good at gaming YouTube and do a ShoeMoney type picture where they hold up a check for 100K from YouTube.
By engaging users on such a level it actually should foster creativity and self-promotion. I guarantee that there will be films put on here that garner some sort of buzz for sundance or any other film festival.
On a completely different note I was thinking that Google would serve ads for possibly related objects like they do in GMail. For instance, (and they beat me to it by a second) this quote by Gerbot from ThreadWatch: “If [Google] is really smart and they’ll start running ads for cups/boxers under videos of guys getting kicked in the nuts.”
Entirely feasible. Anyway I am sure they will find a better use for what they are proposing to do with YouTube than selling things for your groin.
Best,
Dean
January 29th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Great blog Dean. I think that Shoemoney check was the first thing that crossed my mind too. Well, that and who I was going to kick in the groin on video…
But…
I’m interested to see how the hardcore YouTubers are going to respond to commercials being inserted into their videos. I’m also interested to see how they respond to the flood of spam that gets thrown their way as a result of this.
If YouTube fans are anything like Diggers, this may not go over so well…
January 30th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Well, I think the number was that 2/3 of youtubers already said they would visit the site less if they add pre-roll videos. I hope they don’t either YouTube is one of the last bastions of videos that are ad free, I dont care how much they put around it, but I think they just need to keep it out of the video or think about doing post rolls instead.