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YouTube Killer (Media Portal w/ Revenue Sharing)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sharing-the-money dept.

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?"

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  1. So how come... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...every new site/service has to have a retarded name? eefoof, Okapipi, Dirty Rhino, Blue Hippo, come on!

  2. Re:Lulu.tv by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    mmm, nice, so someone can upload his movies to all these sites and enjoy the revenue of all of 'em: Someone, quick, write me a script for auto-submitting stuff to all those sites! :D

    Would be seriously cool if creative people (no, not the people who cut 1 minute from Family Guy's episodes) could earn themselves a nice buck with their stuff that way (and there is always the opportunity to lead people to your own site, where they would be able to buy the high def version of the movie)

  3. Re:Good move by tashanna · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Either way, good to see that besides free hosting (don't underestimate that), people also are getting a share in revenue: I think this might lead to more creative/fun little movies being made.

    As soon as you add money, the signal-to-noise gets much, much worse. The "OMG, $$$$!!!" crowd will be uploading any piece of junk they can find in the hopes that it'll stick and they get a few pennies for the efforts. There's nothing like the Colbert Report posted 100 times to ruin it. It might've been better if Google had done it; at least the search might've had a chance of finding something novel. I won't be all sour grapes. It may work out after all if they have a good search / ranking system

    -Tash
  4. Re:Problem by LordVader717 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't get much easier than this.

    You can even have it transcode Google videos to different formats.

  5. What, already? by samael · · Score: 4, Interesting

    YouTube's been around for just over a year and already we're looking for its killer? Couldn't we just want YouTube to be improved a bit rather than migrating en masse from site to site every 15 minutes?

    Or maybe I'm just getting old.

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  6. Not dead yet... by clambake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm curious why people don't think this "kill feature" would take all of *one weekend* for YouTube or GoFish or any of the other video sites to copy in two seconds if it were looking like a good idea?