YouTube Finally Starts To Share Revenues

YouTube has become a meca site in the last year. In the early days it was not so hard to upload yourself singing in from of your computer and then overnight you would be a superstar, but these days most of that kinda stuff doesnt exist and it actually takes talent to be a must watch on YouTube.

After half a year of testing out its Partners platform with only 100 contributors, YouTube has now opened up this platform to all. The criteria for the partner program is as follows:

• You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
• You own the copyrights and distribution rights for all audio and video content that you upload — no exceptions.
• You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users.
• You live in the United States or Canada.

If you actually adhear to all of the above criteria then you can apply for the program and in return YouTube will actually allow you to make money from your videos, with their revenue sharing program. They havent actually announced yet what percentage of the Adsense revenue you will receive, but knowing the Giant that is Google it isnt going to be too much. 50% if you amazingly lucky.

YouTube has long been a place where video makers couldnt make any money from their videos, but could gain exposure that would instantly shoot then into stardom and allowing them to make money from other revenue streams. As we already some videos are mostly viewed off the YouTube site so im not too sure if these views will could towards your potential advertising revenue, because most sites currently off the site dont carry any ads at all (so will this change?).

Im so happy to see YouTube open their partners section up, because the company in which im CEO will be launching our music distribution company in the coming months and we already have a lot of music videos that now actually have a potential to make money on the worlds largest video site.

For a long time now Metacafe and Revver have been sharing their video ad revenues with contributors, but it has always made me wonder why these sites havent promote that fact a lot more and actually gained some traction on what is the YouTube juggernaut.