[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Exactly. "Blip.tv" who hosts our videos has an ad system in place. The problem of course is their ads aren't very well done and certainly don't induce clicking. On several of our videos you'll see a little thing pop-down and if the user clicks it, we get money, not much, but a little.

I do have a concern...is YouTube going to share that profit with the video uploader? What ramifications does it have for those people who post videos that aren't theirs? For instance if someone takes our Chuck Storm video and uploads it themselves, without our permission, and it by someway gets more views than ours, would they get paid more money? If so, I'm not sure if I like that all too much.

Hopefully, YouTube would have the sense to put a pretty strong system in place, much like Adsense, or even like Blip.tv does. We'll see.

I can see a definite upside to this, as Bobblehead mentioned, but I also see a downside where either YouTube doesn't pay anything to the publisher or people abuse the system for their own personal gain on other's material.

From what I read, YouTube is securing agreements with content creators and those are the videos that may have these commercials.

Kind of like they will get an agreement with NBC, and then NBC supplies NBC with content which has the ads. But the average Joe who uploads his vacation clips won't have any commercials.

So far YouTube has secured 3000 commercial video content providers and 70 indie video creators for the program. Exact percentages haven't been revealed, but YouTube has confirmed that content creators will split the ad revenue with YouTube.

So that sounds to me like unless you have an agreement you won't be party to this enterprise. It sounds very similar got Google Adsense - you need to apply.