Alternatively its because they are about to try to open up an advertising revenue stream through their service, and know that they have to be careful with this and at a minimum make a token gesture that the creators who make the site what it is will get a piece of that pie?
Ive no idea what they've actually got planned, at this stage competitors probably wont be sure whats going to happen either - theres no detail so its hard to speculate much, balancing adverts so they dont alienate viewers, and revenue sharing so it doesnt alienate creators, is the 64 million dollar question right now given that more radical ideas about alternative revenue models are hard to come by. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing the news Enric. Here's a transcript of what he > said: > > "In terms of paying users revenue against the content that they're > uploading, we're definitely going to move in that direction. But we > didn't want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. > We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you > start out with giving money to people from day one they'll just > switch to the next provider. The people you do attract will just > switch to the next provider that's paying more. So we feel we're at > a scale now that we'll be able to do that and really still have a > true community around video." > > I don't quite follow his reasoning: By not compensating creators you > get them to stick around but by compensating them you give them > incentive to abandon you? I think YouTube is as big as it is for > some other reason -- like first mover advantage or something like > that. And when he says they're moving in that direction, I wonder > how long it will take. We could put our videos on YT right now with > ads attached, except for their TOS. If they want to move in that > direction then how about changing those TOS now? The only reason YT > is "moving in that direction" is that other sites are nipping at > their user base. This is good news for the small YT competitors. > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Enric" <enric@> wrote: > > > > Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee reports that "YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said > > today his company (now owned by Google) "is going to move in [the] > > direction" of rewarding video creators for their content, as part > of a > > panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.": > > > > http://tinyurl.com/268fju > > or > > http://newteevee.com/2007/01/26/youtube-to-share-revenue-with- > creators/ > > > > -- Enric > > >
