Revenue sharing?

Video sharing sites exploded last year. The first and the biggest is GooTube (YouTube) but there is a lot of other sites, let’s say “smaller” (well, not really - all of them serves more than million videos per day).
If you have a home video, funny shot or something, you can upload there to share your work with other viewers. That’s fine, when a lot of people watch your video and they put comments, rate it, download it, make contact, etc.. And this is the phenomenom called UGC - user generated content/video, some analytics predict that this year (2007) will be the year of video sharing created by users.

And video sites which enable sharing are financed by advertising, mostly with AdSense ads. And they make profit. So, some of them are progressive (you know - owners and programers grow up together with open source….) and mostly web 2.0 oriented and they invent new business model - revenue sharing. Idea is old and simple (as always):
- we prepare technology, users create content and we share revenue.
As I mentioned before, this started first in video (correct me if I’am wrong) and after that continue into photos, blogs, music, etc… This is new movement, about a year, not more. Cool. And how is this in praxis?
Companies have different aproaches to this revenue sharing model, just few examples I met:

Revver (my favourite) has very exact and clear model:
The viral video network that pays authors and sharers. They connect video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best. They put smal add at the end of the video and when someone clicks to that ad, author is paid 50%, Revver is paid 30% and sharer is paid 20%. So, most important here is that you can be sharer and you can share all this videos everywhere in the net - through email, web sites, downloading, p2p networks, etc…when someone click to ad at the end, you will be paid for sharing, also author of video and Revver.
Some videos:
Ask A Ninja, Question 31 “TechNINlogy”

Redneck Baby

Edna’s Goldfish

Metacafe have other model:
Producer Rewards - Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site, but payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views.

Eefoof is something different:
They accept all media - pictures, audio, flash, video and they share advertising revenue 50% for author and 50% for them. At the end of the month they count all views of media and all clicks to advertisers. In average, 1000 views is about 3,5$.
Few pictures from Eefoof (my, of course ;-):
Where is that house?

Lan party? No….

Ok, the list of videosites they offer revenue is every day bigger, I used this sites for sharing, and, from few days ago, Senserely also. (But I didn’t see any impression of my AdSeneID in my AdSense accout, so mybe James know more about that?)

In the next post I’ll present some video sites that offer only sharing, without uploading.