How To Get On The YouTube Front Page
Just go to their offices and tell them to put you on their front page, apparently. A 20-year-old man from New York went to YouTube’s offices to pitch his idea for an internet reality show on dating. While the show sounds like every other reality show, with ingratiating attention whores saying and doing things to kill your brain cells, you have to admire the guy’s moxie. While he was prevented from leaving the elevator by a security guard, he clearly made the right contacts on the ride up. He has entered a profit sharing deal with YouTube, the first of its kind.
YouTube has a lot of potential that hasn’t been realized yet. Between the upcoming political debates, the candidates posting their own movies, activists creating video protests against corporations and corporations responding with publicity movies, YouTube is garnering more and more viewers. In January, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley had previously shunned the idea of ad revenue because they wanted people motivated by their love of video rather than money. Now the YouTube gang thinks that sharing advertising revenue will improve the content available on the site. How this affects the videos, and whether or not it becomes a profitable enterprise, will be interesting to see.
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June 25th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I really do think they should be on the profit share model.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:20 am
YouTube is still unbeatable even many other sites offer the same services. I must admit though, I’m not a regular visitor to their site…
June 27th, 2007 at 5:32 am
I’m gonna have to make a trip to YouTube and pitch my idea.
June 27th, 2007 at 6:18 am
that is pretty nuts… i’ve had much better ideas shot down
June 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Hmmmm… I would tend to think that Profit Sharing would even increase YouTube’s popularity. Everybody wins.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
An essential part of YouTube is the non profit thing… I really think it’s one of the reasons they’re that big now.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:43 am
YouTube, Digg, Fark…all these websites raking in huge profits for their owners while it is their user base populating the content. While profit sharing would be nice, the administration of such would be a nightmare. Perhaps some sort of model like Google Adsense could work, where the users were automatically credited with every click.
July 4th, 2007 at 2:59 am
leave a good thing alone. you tube rocks.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I agree Youtube should share profits!
July 12th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I agree Youtube should be profit share, its the viewers that keep them going after all!!!
If it wasn’t for them no one else would be interested would they?
July 21st, 2007 at 8:50 am
That’s classic! I’ve been thinking about using YouTube to advertise my business with some sort of viral marketing campaign. I think it could be pretty effective.
Profit-sharing could work. They just need to make sure they don’t share too much of the profits. I’m not sure how much it would effect the video quality unless they provided a pretty generous sharing plan.