I have been making & uploading
videos to first google video & shortly after youtube for over a
year now. During that time I created over 100 original videos. many
were just experiments that I pulled shortly after due to bad reviews,
poor views or excessive copyright issues. I have about 50 still online.
It was a fun process learning video editting. The reason I kept
at it was that I felt that if I could create some decent content then
it might create a snow abll effect. I was wooed by the promises that
both Googlevideo & youtube made, saying that they would someday
start paying people for thier content. Both compaies let me down by
welching on the promises. When I first started with google video they
even had a section that when you uploaded the video that you could set
a price for your video and they said that although it wasnt working yet
that soon the average Joe would be able to sell videos. I thought that
sounded great. Never happened. Then they bought youtube. When that
happened rumers went around that they would start to share the ad
proceeds with the video creators. Never happened. (actually I guess it
did, but only for the superstars like lonelygirl15 and the like) But
never happened for me anyways.
To date I have had about 350,000
views on my videos all combined. not great, but not bad, as I was just
learning etc. I am actually quite happy with that number for now. But a
couple months ago I started to feel that those views had more or less
gone to waste. Youtube was starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth
after what I feel are broken promises. Anyways so I started looking at
other options once again. I went back to Metacafe and had another look.
to my suprise they seem to have a relativly thriving community. Not
near as large as youtube, but not bad. AND THEY PAY! Now they only pay
for original content, that has no copyright issues, so I went to work
and removed soundtracks etc and replaced with public domain music and
started uploading there. Alas the videos that I have that fit into that
criteria are kinda lame but its a start. And has lead to a plan for me.
Anyways back to the title of this article, I think that Flixya
& Metacafe make perfect companions because it is kind of killing 2
birds with one stone. Get paid for the video views from metacafe
(20,000 pays $100, and $5 every 1000 after that) and get ad revenue
from flixya/google interface. One of my videos has about 8500 views
after a month so that about $50. Not bad so far from a site that I
hardly noticed until recently.
I have a few other plans that I am going to incorporate soon on this quest to make video money online :)
Just subscribe to this Flixya blog, and I will keep you updated on the progress.
Feel
free to post suggestions, observations and comments. Also if you have a
video on Metacafe in thier producer awards send me the link, and I will
have a look. Every view counts :)
Peace.
Peppersmoke
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