YouTube Killer (Media Portal w/ Revenue Sharing)

MattPF writes "eefoof.com is a user-submitted content site similar to YouTube/Google Video which allows users to submit Videos, Images, Flash and Audio while receiving a share of the site's ad revenue. For example, if someone uploads a really popular video that accounts for a lot of traffic in a given month, the user will receive a good portion of the video ad revenue for the month. Could this be the YouTube killer?"

Comments

Possibly,

[laptop006]

But more likely it's a paid ad...

Re:Possibly,

[Aaron England]

Tag this story slashvertisement.

The new killer-killer...

[BecomingLumberg]

Can we stop using the phrase ______-killer? A product can have weight on its own merit, and some companies to coexist even if there is a clear top dog (google, anyone?).

Problem

[Galston]

What is to stop anyone from going to YouTube, searching for the most popular videos of the moment and uploading them to the new site. They would then be getting Ad money for videos that didn't belong to them.

Re:Problem

[kaden]

In theory? The actual creators of the videos could sue you for violating their copyright.

In reality? Most videos will probably not be uploaded by the people who created them/own the rights to them, because suing someone over pennies of ad revenue isn't a realistic solution for the college students who generally are creating these videos.

SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

These clowns have been spamming this junk all over the Net today.

Creating fake accounts, pretending to be people jumping on the bandwagon, etc.

Die, spammers, die.

Re:SPAM

[linvir]

There is a beautiful kind of irony in it though. Because of their haste to sell themselves, they've overstepped their own capacity and blasted themselves offline through sheer volume of traffic.

Perhaps if they'd had a little patience, and spread the big traffic spikes out over a few days, they'd actually be able to benefit from them. As it stands now, I just tried to create an account, got a bunch of database errors, and gave up.

I probably won't be back.

PHP quality

[linvir]

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/setup.php on line 19

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/setup.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/track.php on line 61

Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/track.php on line 61
Logo register login

Holy shit! Have these people ever heard of is_resource()?

if(!is_resource($database_connection)) {
show_error_message();
dont_try_to_make_any_mor e_database_calls();
}

And what about prepending mysql_connect with a @ to hide the error messages from naughty boys who you don't want knowing the location of your web dir and your mysql socket?

$database_connection = @mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);

It's not often that I'm out-noobed in PHP, but these guys have managed it.

Not yet proven

[oahazmatt]

I love these headlines. "DS Killer", "Microsoft iPod Killer". Whether a bias opinion or bad judgement by the submitter, few companies would like to have their product labeled as the "other brand killer", for the reasons that 1) it still keeps the other product in the potential-customer's mind and 2) it does give the company developing said 'killer' a rather aggressive and nasty appearance that may backfire. "Why do you want to kill my iPod, mister? I love my iPod!"

Also, look for the revenue sharing to occassionally go towards legal fees, as I'm sure there will be more than one-piece of copyrighted material available for view. Someone will upload clips of Korgoth of Barbaria that someone missed, or something along those lines, and then either complain about not getting paid for the traffic, or having to fight off Time Warner lawyers.

And reverting back to my original point, can we please stop diagnosing something as something else's 'killer'? The market is very finicky, and often things that take off are things no one thought would. I laughed at the iPod when it first came out, now I own one. The PSP was supposed to outsell the DS by a phenomenal margin, and that's not hapening. And most of all, it has less of a chance of happening if someone starts showing off their design and yelling "but it's better and has go-faster stripes!".

I Agree

[badevlad]

I agree with you. It is just promotional phrase. It is so rare, when one product or service completely replace another one.

The Fundamental Problem...

[ThomasBHardy]

The fundamental problem with this business model is that even on services where there's no revenue attached, you get 20 people uploading the same videos. When you attach money to it, you can guarantee that any popular post gets re-posted 25,000 times by others hoping to make a buck. Then what happens when someone posts up entertainment skits produced by others? Now you are making revenue from someone else's works. This just seems to have a giant "TOO COMPLICATED TO SURVIVE" stamped on it's forehead.

Re:Good move

[Anonymous Coward]

You're quite the optimist. I for one believe in the negative power of money. I think it will lead to another round of click-your-own-ads...

Re:Lulu.tv

[NeilTheStupidHead]

no, not the people who cut 1 minute from Family Guy's episodes...

That parenthetical remark raises a valid point though: What kind of controls are there going to be to ensure that someone isn't making money from another person's copyrighted material? This is less of a concern for popular media which everyone can identify (e.g. a clip from Family Guy) but would be a serious problem for independant content makers who choose to distribute their work over the internet.

slashdotted

[Britz]

If they can't survive a slashdotting of their front page, how are they going stream large media files to an audience big enough that the revenue share we would get would is an amount greater than a couple cents?

Looks like a good deal, or does it?

[Unique2]

eefoof image hits for the month: 10,000
FUNNY.JPG hits for the month: 100
eefoof image ad revenue: $1,000
FUNNY.JPG revenue earned: $10.00
eefoof's expenses $5.00
FUNNY.JPG earned you: $5.00

Looks like opportunity for some Hollywood accounting

Uhmm...

[darkrowan]

Any time you have the statment: Is this/This is a [insert hot popular item] killer, it isn't.

"eefoof" is the sound mafia victims make

[bitspotter]

I'm starting a pool on how long it takes before copyright holders sue them for paying unauthorized posters.

YouTube is bad enough, but there's no money involved to spur posting. If there's one thing a cartel hates worse than people giving away their stuff for free, it's people people giving away their stuff for money.