Interesting AdWeek story “Revver Tempts YouTubers With Money.” Seems pay-for-content is starting to approach tipping point.
Note- Revver is like a Paypal of online video. Not a destination, but a tool to facilitate sharing and displaying of videos for those too small to hunt down advertisers of their own but would like ad revenue. Which is about 99% of us.
Remember the Balloon Boy episode from 2009? Huffington Post reported that Richard Heene hasn’t given up his quest to extend his 15 minutes of fame. Here’s the fruit of his labor: Aluminum man. So sorry I didn’t provide you with this earlier.
YouTube “Partners” are contractually obliged to not disclose earnings from Google’s video-sharing property, but that didn’t stop #2 subscribed Ray William Johnson this week. On Thursday he told ReelSEO’s Jeremy Scott that his YouTube ad-share income over the past 12 months (March 2010-March 2011) has surpassed one million dollars. Johnson, one of few top YouTubers…
Okay- the headline was provocative and unfair. You can exist just fine without an online video site. Just post your stuff on YouTube and let the rest of us make money. Why the “Different Strokes” photo? We’ll get there in a minute. Anyway I got two replies to the video on “How to Build Your…
VidCon2010, which begins today, is already shaping up to be the South by Southwest (SXSW) of online video. The event, organized by Nerdfighter Hank Green, has attracted hundreds to LA today and tomorrow to discuss online video and meet fellow online-video creators and webstars. Here’s my video of some morning activities, and I hope to…
Stickam is dead. Another casualty of the online-video sharing market. Said the company via e-mail: After seven wonderful years we are incredibly sad to have to say goodbye. We did everything we could to keep this dream alive, but unfortunately you are reading this message. When Stickam launched in 2005 we were the very first…
YouTube began in 2005 with a focus on community, but in recent years has logically put most of its energy into luring more viewers with frequency, becoming profitable, and attracting professional content and ads. So it’s refreshing to see the birth of “Creators’ Corner,” with has both a blog and a spot on YouTube. WillVideoForFood…
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Apparently Revver does have it so that you can make your own site on Revver though. I haven’t messed with it yet, is this true?
Also, check your e-mail 🙂
I wish I could check my dang personal account during the work day…. grrrr.
I made one. But I did it wrong.
I just sat through an hour-long Final Cut Pro instructional DVD. I have no capacity to learn anything new for 5 days.