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www.lake-shore.co.uk — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:01:49 -0000

winner here are Video producers

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sam — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:24:36 -0000

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Ty — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:11:12 -0000

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Ty — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:10:32 -0000

I live in Los Angeles. Anyone from youtube looking at this should contact me. I have a patent on this that pre-dates the direction you're going in. I'm thinking it would be better to sell it to you and integrate the "big picture" into youtube instead of coming out with a separate service. My patent puts the nail in the coffin of any competitor of youtube. Seriously.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

Micki Krimmel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:54:16 -0000

We're excited to hear that YouTube has admitted that paying creators is important. We've known that all along. As you all know, we've built our business on that ideal. Giving our community a stake in our success and respecting their contributions to the site has been a great starting point for creating a community around original video.

And many of our creators and sharers have done quite well using Revver. We don't struggle with copyright issues and our technology supports open syndication and revenue-sharing for every video on our system.

As Alastair points out, our API and open syndication model takes the business model a step beyond just sharing revenue with creators. Remember, we share revenue with sharers as well. Anyone can build a video site on top of our API. As more partners build upon our open source technology and the network grows, that means more revenue for everyone on the system.

I agree with Ajay that as the video space moves more in this direction, it's good for all creators. It's a big world out there and the demand for online video is growing. With our creator-friendly TOS and comittment to a democratic revenue-sharing model, Revver will continue to be a good home for independent artists' work.

- Micki, REVVER

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

steven — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:44:35 -0000

you guys at youtube have made my live alot easy thank you

i will tell you a joke what did the guys at youtube tell the monster???

ROCK ON LIKE WE DO

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

dale — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:14:11 -0000

The BBC have mentioned that the ads might be in the form of â€œpre roll adsâ€ i.e. shown before the video. If this is the case it would be a bad move for YouTube. I know itâ€™s only â€œ3 seconds before a video startsâ€ but itâ€™s still very annoying and I think it would have users â€™switching offâ€™

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Thomas — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:44:31 -0000

Good luck monetizing that empire of piracy, spam and abuse, otherwise known as Youtube. Why are we suddenly conceding the internet to Gootube??

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." --Nelson Mandela

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

Apechai — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:45:56 -0000

I think this is an important business lesson for those other video sharing startups competing with YouTube. A feature (social networking, revenue sharing etc) is not a business model in itself. It gives you a small boost but it has always been about community. If you donâ€™t take advantage of that small boost quickly enough, your competitor assimilates that feature and crushes you. Social networking, revenue sharing, tagging etc will all just become standard features. The winners will be determined by branding and how they market to their communities.

But sharing revenue with users isnâ€™t the big news here. Sharing revenue with the original artists through audio fingerprinting is. Now that is something the big media hunchos would be interested in. No doubt theyâ€™ll complain about how it still isnâ€™t enough. They will push back. But itâ€™s a huge leap forward by YouTube.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

GL — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:18:38 -0000

Guys -

It really obvious what Google is doing. By paying for "youtube" videos it will force people to signup for Google Checkout. Google will deposit the funds in the Checkout account, which can then be moved to your bank, etc.

If anything, this is exactly what Google needed to do to bolster their efforts against PayPal -- not to mention it keeps them @ the top of the video heep for quite a while.

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Guna the Startup Booster — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:49:04 -0000

I think this is just going to add more pressure on other social networks to begin to share revenue with their userbase. I've made a post on my Startup Booster blog about this yesterday. It does not have to be Video but you are right, Revver and other have to watch their next move. Although many people just love the system, there are other 90% who loves the $$$.

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Mac — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:42:23 -0000

What about the Youtube gamers? has there been a change to the youtube algorithm, if not, this could attract even more!

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Ryan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:19:47 -0000

You can only have 300 favorites now. And only the first 400 videos in search are shown now.

This is a huge step backward for YouTube...

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

Alastair James — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:23:02 -0000

Well revver still as the unique selling point of the API that allows 3rd party sites to use it to power inline video. I would say this is sufficient for the company to exist on its own.

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Toveri — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:20:35 -0000

I worry for Revver. It's a great tool for those wanting to hos videos on their own site and I wouldn't want to loose it. The money is bonus, but the maint hing for me is the syndication possibilities.

As a destinations ite Revver is quite lacking and that's propably been it's biggest hinderance in the race. I've come ot like LiveVideo's community features a lot, but it's lacking int he areas where Revver shines.

Only if there was a way to combine the best of both worlds.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:45:13 -0000

ted,

Here's the thing: YouTube has the world's most successful online advertiser behind it. Granted, Google hasn't yet proved itself with video ads, but if anyone can dominate that space, they can. I don't see how Revver can compete with that.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid – Death Blow to Revver?

ted — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:17:57 -0000

I think there is some potential for this to be good for Revver, but only if they have the revenue to actually compete for top talent. The minute you start paying for talent, you put yourself on a different level. They ought to be purchased by NBCU or someone similar, who could give them the backing and ad deals to be a "top talent", sharable community video site.

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Kyle Korleski — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:34:26 -0000

Of course. I plan to upload my Karaoke videos to YouTube considering that I need some extra bones.