Even though Youtube are by far the dominant website for videos, they have yet to confirm a start date for when they plan to pay for user generated video content. However, here are two other video sites that ARE paying for original videos uploaded to their sites.
Revver
Revver is a viral video-sharing platform network built with unique technology that tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the web. Revver connect video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best.
How does it work?
1. Upload your video.
2. Revver pairs your video with a targeted advertisement.
3. Share your video across the web. The more people see it, the more money you can make.
4. Revver split the ad revenue with you 50/50.
The difference with Revver is that sharers earn money too! If you help spread Revver videos, you earn 20% of the ad revenue. The remaining money is split 50/50 between the video creator and Revver. Revver have built all sorts of cool and easy sharing tools to help you make your work go viral and earn more money.
Metacafe
Metacafe is a video and media sharing community on the internet. Metacafe users upload and share thousands of new videos every day. The Metacafe community of reviewers filters out the noise and promotes the most favorite items. Metacafe offers a desktop application, mainly targeted at users who are “video addicts” and download many of the videos every week. The desktop application is capable of downloading high-quality media to the local computer while the computer is idle.
Metacafe features user generated videos, funny videos, Internet videos and viral ads as well as sports and news-related media. Some of the other features on the site include flash games and sound clips.
Metacafe provides over 450,000,000 videos every month, to almost two million registered visitors and 120 million visitors monthly, with 17 milion unique users each month.
Metacafe users upload to the website’s severs and share their videos. The videos are then distributed to a community of volunteer reviewers, checked by the company’s reviewers to filter-out explicit images and mark some items with “adult” flags, and then distributed to all users by two main methods:
* Website Distribution – Showing the new videos and top videos and updating constantly. It is also possible to embed the clips into blogs and private pages.
* Client for Windows – A free downloadable application that enables the users to build and manage their own video library by optimizing their bandwidth to download and upload only when the computer is idle.
A viewer can call up a video, watch it, rate it and send it to his friends by email or messenger. All ratings are stored and the site shows statistics for videos by the Highest Rank, Most Viewed, Most Discussed, and Most Recent. Additionally, the site shows a list of top submitters and top producers.
Metacafe’s system is different from most other video sharing sites in that the content on the website is first reviewed by special reviewers and only then posted to the site. This helps in limiting the non-quality videos at the expense of lengthening the wait between the video’s upload and it’s availability on the Metacafe site. Also, Metacafe has a special anti-duplication algorithm, which reduces the possibility of duplicated videos. As such, every video is posted only once, which eases finding the videos.
In October 2006, Metacafe announced its Producer Rewards program where users of this program are paid for their original content. Metacafe pays $5 for every 1,000 videos an item gets, after the first 20,000 views.
In the first two months of its run, Metacafe paid over $10,000 to five individual producers each, where the highest-paid producer received almost $25,000. The program has proved to be a success, and is constantly generating numerous quality videos.
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