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Get Played. Get Paid.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-return-of-the-bob dept.

vile8 writes "Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat Software, is in the NY Times this morning covering a new co-operative business plan for viral video makers. Just like his Self-publishing site Lulu, the new plan provides 80% of the revenues back to the creators. It is based on something quite common, Co-ops. In this plan, if there were 5000 users at 14.95 each there would be 59,800 that would get divvied up among those that brought traffic to the site. The 'pro' users also get larger upload space, and longer cam captures. Other unique features of the site are the podcast generation per author, author vlog pages, and open-source-specific OGM video format conversions."

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  1. Or... by nmb3000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...you could just upload and watch movies for free on Google, You-Tube, etc.

    If there's one thing the Internet has shown, it's that people do *not* want to pay for content. This is what Google knows and it's why they base nearly all their revenue on contextual ads instead of trying to sell access to Gmail or Maps.

    This sounds like just another 'make easy money on teh interweb!' scheme that's going to disappear pretty quick.

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    1. Re:Or... by EL_mal0 · · Score: 4, Interesting
      If there's one thing the Internet has shown, it's that people do *not* want to pay for content.

      The people at Apple might disagree with you (here).

  2. I'd pay for a good search engine... by zogger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...by the year, some reasonable fee, IF, there was a toggle to filter out commercial ads/spam sites.

  3. Self limiting by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Two issues I see:

    Viral marketting works because people see and exchange videos etc. If You drive them to a pay link then most will just pass on the vid.

    If it allows downloading, then people will d/l and post or email teh vid outside of Lulu - which means real popular vids may get viewed without the author getting paid by lulu.

    I think Googles "we'll give you a cut of teh add revenue" is a smarter move since it incorporates the "payment" to Google (page views of ads) in viewing the vid, and it rewards popular vids becasue they drive viewing ads and thus money to Google; while not requiring money from either party - iploader or viewer.

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