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Internet Video is definitely the next hottest business opportunity on the web, and making money with Internet Video Television is going to be a huge opportunity for those who are poised to take advantage of this new industry. Videos are hot on the Internet right now, and everyone is either profiting from them, or looking for new ways to profit from them.
Sites like Youtube and Metacafe are already big names in the Internet Video industry, but new sites that will be more like on demand television are in beta testing right now. Marketers and Entrepreneurs alike are developing plans to create Internet Television shows and sell advertising. The site for tvnetresource is dedicated to providing information on this new industry and creating a social networking site that will allow video creators to come together and form this new industry.
The opportunities to make money in this new Internet Video Television Industry have a wide range of possibilities right now. Profit centers include, commercials, product placement, video editing jobs, freelance writing, directorial debuts and gigs, producer credits, talent agencies and much much more.
The various profit centers that exist in the traditional entertainment industry all will still apply to this new industry, but with a lower barrier of entry and a higher ease of tools and techniques that before required years to learn. The Internet Video Television is making it?s debut and those who are poised to take advantage of it will reap the rewards of their efforts.
The video site Break.com is offering $400 for videos, and up to $2,000 for animated films. The goal is to attract quality films from budding filmmakers and not just the cell phone camera cat antics you frequently see at YouTube. The typical length is about 10 minutes, so these are really more like film shorts.
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Gimmick |
Scenario: If the site gets 1 million hits in one month, books $100,000 in total ad revenues, AND your content on that site gets 10,000 page views and helps serve $5,000 worth of ads, you would earn? |
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Blip.tv |
You choose where ads appear with your video and, if you want to, which ad companies will serve the ads. Blip will split all advertising revenue generated from user content 50/50 with the users. If you do really well, the company will represent you to media buyers ? and upon securing a sponsorship deal. |
$2,500 ? Whether by click-thrus or just banners, if you can pull off serving $5,000 worth of ads in a month, you get to keep half. |
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Break.com |
Break.com's staff picks their favorite videos to go on the site's home page. If they pick yours, you get $400. If they decide to give it a featured thumbnail somewhere else, you get $50. |
You'd have to hope they like your video enough to put it on the Break.com home page. |
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Eefoof.com |
The company measures each submitter's page views, calculates the percentage of hits that content accounted for, then distributes a percentage of the site's profits proportionally to each content creator. |
$400 ? Your content was responsible for 1 percent of their ad revenues (so $1,000). Out of that $1,000, they shave 20 percent for expenses, then take half of the remaining profit. |
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Google Video |
Used to be set your own price, pay-per-view. Company says it is still tinkering and making up its mind. |
Nothing now. Stay tuned. |
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Lulu TV |
This company pools 80 percent of its ad revenues and pays based on how much of the total site traffic your content generated. |
$800 ? They put 80 percent of their revenues ($80,000) in a pool and you get 1 percent, because you "owned" 1 percent of the total site traffic. |
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Metacafe |
Metacafe pays $5 per 1,000 page views. But, first you have to hit 20,000 page views to qualify. |
$50 ? If you had already reached the 20,000 page view theshold before the month began. $0 ? If you haven't hit the 20,000 hit mark. |
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Revver |
The site will split ad revenue with you 50/50 based on how many page views your video generates. However, viewers must click on post-roll ads at the end of your video in order for the page view to count towards revenue. |
$2,500 ? If someone clicks on every single ad following one of your videos; $0 if no one clicks on the ads following your videos. |
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YouTube |
Still unannounced. |
Nothing now. Stay tuned. |
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Last update: 09:03 PM Sunday, July 1, 2007 |
