YouTube to Share Revenue With Users

[Joanne98]

By Associated Press

January 27, 2007, 10:05 AM EST

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

Hurley, who along with the site's co-founders sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in November, said one of the major innovations the site is working on is a way to allow users to be paid for content.

"We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," Hurley said at the World Economic Forum. "So in the coming months, we are going to be opening that up."

Hurley gave no details of how much users would be paid, or what mechanism would be used.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-world-forum-youtube,0,6233391.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[xchrom]

1. wow -- that's very cool.

[Joanne98]

2. VERY COOL!

:)

[msongs]

3. depends on whether "users" = advertisers does it not?

and will there now be fees to post?

more questions than answers here.

Msongs

see me on youtube (not being paid tho)

www.youtube.com/videos/msongs

[SayWhatYo]

8. Users are users...

Advertisers are advertisers, no? Not sure what kind of questions are raised... Well, I wonder if you have to be born on the second Tuesday of the year and have brown hair with eye color of #000 in order to be considered a user... Hmmm, you're right... ;)

[hashibabba]

4. WHAT???!!!! This isn't the neocon way!! Take,

take, take. CHARGE the users for crying out loud! Make more money for yourself!

:sarcasm:

[FastHorizon]

5. This is pretty cool...

Should be interesting to see how they work out this system.

[w4rma]

6. Smart. They are sharing income to gain a lot more. (nt)

[Ignacio Upton]

7. Maybe this could ease their copyright battles

They could always give a stipend to the networks to buy them off.

[SayWhatYo]

9. Good...

There are some pretty funny & talented people on that... I recommend everyone check out 'happyslip' for some laughs.

[lovuian]

10. You tube is definitely needs to do something to keep its

customers
since google has taken over
the service has gone to hell

their getting competition