Tips, News and Articles on how to make the most money from the video that you distribute over the internet including which web video sites offer revenue sharing and how to sell your video online.

Making Money & Web Video

Maybe YouTube Isn’t The Money Pit For Google After All | Research Disputes Credit Suisse

Everyone knows YouTube is losing lots more money to run than it’s bringing in, right? Wrong. Sure, a Credit Suisse report...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Gives Users The Chance To Choose Ads | Unfortunately, No Adverts Not An Option

Google is continuing to struggle to make YouTube profitable. All those eyes watching the site should be worth a mint, but...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu’s Growth Stalls, And Talk Immediately Emerges Of Charging For The Free Service

Hulu is currently in a fantastic position, gaining viewers every month, and bringing in enough money to just about get by....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

PRS Lowers Streaming Music Video Royalty Rates | YouTube Row Should Now End

The Performing Rights Society (PRS) collects royalties for music artists, and it generally does a good job. Except when it pushed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Boasts 20 Hours Of Video Uploaded Every Minute | But It Still Wants More UGC

To hear that YouTube is the most popular, most visited, and most content-filled online video site on the Web is hardly...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Full-Length Shows Coming To YouTube UK? | The Kings Of Short-form Look To Long-form

YouTube has, for a long time, been the king of short-form content. And despite various pretenders to its crown, this looks...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Is YouTube Really The Failure Time Describes It As Being? | Monetarily Yes, Otherwise No

YouTube is the most trafficked online video site in the world, one of the most trafficked Web sites of any kind...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Making Money From Torrents | Vuze Offers HD Porn For A Fee But Pirated Porn Still King

Porn is popular and profitable, especially on the Internet where the thirst for it is insatiable and where every need is...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Hulu Hullabaloo | Would The Real Online Video Metrics Please Stand Up To Be Counted?

Each month, several companies release viewing figures for online video. This month was no exception, although the huge difference in figures...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

YouTube Cracks Down On In-Video Product Placement Adverts | Wants Action For Itself

Product placement has been a mainstay of movies and television shows for years now. But with some content creators utilizing the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Susan Boyle Clips Making No Revenue Due To YouTube and ITV Arguing Over Advertising

Old media and new media are often uncomfortable bedfellows. The old knows it needs the new but cannot quite give up...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

VEVO Music Video Site Announced | YouTube and Universal Do Deal – Other Labels Talking

Music videos have been an important part of YouTube for a good while now, being amongst the most-watched videos on the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

IPREDator Grabs 100,000 Users In First Week As Facebook Blocks The Pirate Bay Torrent Links

With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Analysts Claim YouTube On Course For Massive Loss In 2009 | The Site Impossible To Monetize?

On the day that it’s rumored Google is looking to buy Twitter, analysts claim that the company is set to make...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

YouTube Redesign On Way? | Google-owned Online Video Site To Get A Hulu Makeover

Google has been trying to turn YouTube into a sleeker, slicker, money-making site for nigh on a year now. Although it’s...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web Video Cannot Succeed Until TV-Style Advertising Revenue Arrives | Money Is Key

Money is key. It’s a shame that is the case but true nevertheless. And this adage is having a direct influence...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Rickrolling Songwriter Pete Waterman Hates YouTube | Rick Astley Tune Made £11 In 2008

Three issues have converged this week: YouTube’s inability to make revenue, the continuing fight between the PRS and YouTube, and Rickrolling....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Filmmakers Embrace Digital Distribution | Morgan Spurlock Asks: Where Is The Revenue?

Online video and digital distribution has opened up the world of independent filmmakers to a larger audience. The option is now...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Blocks Music Videos In U.K. | PRS Accused Of Holding Video Site To Ransom

YouTube users in the U.K. are going to have trouble watching their favorite music videos on the site for the foreseeable...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

YouTube Music Video Site Edges Nearer | ‘Vevo’ Would Push Ad Revenues Skywards

Music videos are an integral part of YouTube, but the record labels which provide them want more than just a few...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Cable TV Companies Look At Online Future | Brilliant Innovation or Too Little, Too Late?

If you can’t beat them, join them. This is true of many aspects of life, and it’s a strategy the cable...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Sony Music Videos Staying On YouTube | First Major Record Label To Agree A New Deal

YouTube is very important to the music industry, and the music industry is very important to YouTube. It’s a symbiotic relationship...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Download YouTube Videos – Now Official | Google Offering Free and Paid-for Downloads

Since its inception, YouTube has been a purely Web-based affair. You visit the site, watch a video or two and then...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

ABC Doubles Online Video Ads | Short-term Moneymaker, Long-term Web Video Killer?

Web Video is growing at a phenomenal rate, but there’s still one major problem to solve before the networks truly embrace...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Monty Python Embrace YouTube And Benefit Greatly | Click-To-Buy Does Work After All

I’m fully of the opinion that new media needs to be embraced rather than strangled. This goes for the movie industry,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Google Video Killed Off In Favor Of YouTube | Google Cull Non-Profitable Apps

Although it was am obvious move that many were surprised didn’t happen sooner, the culling of Google Video is still big...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

How To Make Money On YouTube | Don’t Sue Or Issue Takedowns – Advertise On Video Clips

In order to make money on YouTube, the solution is very simple: advertising. But for professional content creators, this doesn’t just...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Tiered ISP Charges For Internet Video? | BBC Considers Charging For High Quality iPlayer

We may all love watching television and video on the Internet, but the technology allowing us to do so doesn’t come...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Is A Music Video Hulu On The Way? | YouTube About To Lose More Than Just Warners?

Music videos seem perfectly suited to the Web, being short videos that are easily digestible. But no-one seems to have truly...
Dave Parrack
1 min read