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YouTube will share revenue with content creators
Good news if you're creating original content which is popular on YouTube. According to co-founder Chad Hurley, YouTube will soon be offering a revenue share to creators of popular videos. The BBC reports, "The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, [...] and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film." Revenue sharing will only be available for non-copyright infringing videos, and its unclear exactly how much money per video play will be offered. Now the debate begins; Will YouTube users leave in droves once they're forced to sit through advertising? Will bright, independent content creators work harder to impress now that money, not just temporary Internet fame, is involved? With much discussion going on around Download Squad this week about abandoning your TV, how television as we know it is doomed, and YouTube's pilot to push ads on major label music videos, are we really witnessing the birth-cry of a full scale television revolution?
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Kevin M. said 9:00PM on 1-28-2007
Revver anybody?
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Adam said 10:00AM on 1-29-2007
Until I can access youtube with my remote and without any difficult installtion, then maybe call it a revolution (all though now that i think about it, its definitely possible now!)
// Gotta love downloadsquad
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Gil said 10:16AM on 1-29-2007
Metacafe has been doing this for some time. Unfortunatelly this has led to a serious drop in the quality of the movies with every average Joe with a camer trying to make a quick buck
http://www.metacafe.com/producer_rewards_videos/
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