Video startup Magnify.net will today invite Magnify.net site owners to participate in a beta test of its new advertising program, the “AdShare Network.”
The AdShare Network gives site owners the ability to earn directly from their video channels, both from the network itself and by allowing users to deploy their own ad inventory.
We first covered Magnify.net in March; Magnify.net allows publishers to create their own video channels, and populate it with videos from other sites, including YouTube, Revver, Yahoo Videos and others. The new advertising network gives current and prospective users a better incentive to create video channels other than by offering a quality service: money. As the site relies on videos pulled from external services, Adshare Network is not offering video advertising, only traditional advertising that can be displayed around videos on the network.
Magnify.net recently passed 10,000 user generated video channels and hit seven million page views in July.
Great,
Was looking for something like this
Magnify is breaking the terms of service for YouTube, and I would guess most other video hosts.
http://www.google.com/support/.....swer=71011
“We don’t want to discourage you from putting the occasional YouTube video in your blog to comment on it or show your readers a video you like, even if you have general purpose ads somewhere on your blog. We will, however, enforce our Terms of Use against, say, a website that does nothing more than aggregate a bunch of embedded YouTube videos and intentionally tries to generate ad revenue from them.”
What I don’t understand is that it’s not YouTubes videos to begin with… they didn’t pay to produce them, market them or otherwise, they are just a repository of a bunch of user generated content - as such… what right do they have to limit the rights of others (including the one who produced the video) from generating income anymore then anybody else. If Youtube produced the content, sure, it’s THEIR copyright, if not, it goes back to the original producer of said content who may or may not have a problem with it (or more likely want a cut).
Jon
Blip.tv does not allow sites like Magnify.net to profit from videos they host and I agree with their stands.
Eventually Youtube (when they figure out how to make a profit) will block sites like Magnify. When this happens all the other video hosts will follow. I am not against video aggregation, I just created my own video bookmarking and gallery service. I have decided to keep the video pages ad free in respect of video hosts who shell out millions a month in bandwidth. As for a business model, I have one and I know that I will have to be more creative then slapping unformatted ads around video
Did it occur to any of you that maybe Magnify did a deal with Blip, YouTube et al? I think Blip & Magnify are based within a couple miles of each other.
Disclaimer: I know Steve Rosenbaum, the the founder of Magnify, though we haven’t talked for a while. He’s been in the film & TV industry for over 20 years, so he probably knows a few things about how to do deals around content.
@ Derek, can you show me a blip video on their site, I just tried to embed one and it did not work for me. Maybe this IT pro is not smart enough to use their system (wink wink).
http://salsa.magnify.net/item/TRH1YVTRJ8RLGB7G
I was able to add the same blip video to my site as a quick test so it is not an issue with blip’s embed tags.
http://www.myvidster.com/video.....a_-_Part_1
If I am doing something wrong, please correct me.
Disclaimer: I am the founder of myVidster (really new startup) which could be viewed as a competitor to magnify.net. Not trying to start drama, just stating what I know as true.
(I have a consulting relationship w/ Magnify, though not speaking officially for the company here).
Hashim & Marques-
While I think you’re both making fairly reasonable assertions, I respectively disagree w/ your conclusive assessments. Google likes Magnify, in part because they do a lot more than what that TOS paragraph states. The Blip-Magnify relationship is quite friendly as well, as it too is a win-win.
Derek, just minor fyi: Manhattan is measured in subway stops, not miles :^)