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Promoting Your Online Video Content

ByNalts

Since there's no model that has high traffic (YouTube) AND pay-for-content (Revver), this has been my strategy for making money through online video. Use it as your own risk. Create good stuff. I'm hit or miss, and still experimenting. Since I'm not interested in making sexy videos, I focus on humor. Sometimes topical, sometimes corny,…

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How Will Amateurs Make Money from Online Videos in 2007?

ByNalts

Right now there are only two ways for an amateur to make money on short online videos, but this will soon change. Provide a website or network exclusive rights and get a one-time payment. We've seen certain amateur content creators already stop producing content for YouTube because they've been presumably approached by "content scouts." Remember…

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Help Starving Video Blogger Win Prize

ByNalts

Okay, the competition for the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang contest is better than I expected. Which means I need to blog a desperate plea for votes. If you have a second, please give the following three short videos "5 stars." You don't even have to suffer through them or click the ads. And if I…

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Sprint and Verizon Stalk Film-Festival Circuit

ByNalts

It would appear that the Howard Stern & XM Radio deal has scared the hell out of cell-phone providers. Cingular has partnered with HBO, and Sprint and Verizon are hunting for "short films suitable for the size-challenged cell-hone screen," according to Newsweek. Nokia is setting up a tent at the Los Angeles Film Festival to…

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Get Ready for a Remote-Control “Thumb Cramp”

ByNalts

Right now you may channel surf between 100 to 500 channels, according to this article from The Mercury News. But Internet protocol television (IPTV) — television broadcast over the Internet  — could change that. An estimated 49 million Americans already have the gear and broadband connections needed to receive IPTV, and this will allow for…

Google Video to Allow Comments & Ratings (and what we REALLY want)

ByNalts

Google Video will soon allow online video viewers to post comments and ratings. This places the site closer to YouTube's model, and could well help it steal market share from the #1 online video site. Of course, Google doesn't typically model off of other companies but sets trends. Google's old model was to organize the world,…