There is a active idea you have suggested – all content creators get united. It is difficult but not possible in creative professions. It can be initiated in specific geographies. I can organise one ! If content creating community can just create another U-tube or convinc e utube to share production costs to start with. Regards,

Christian, this actually depends on the ad campaign — the vast majority of our campaigns pay for all traffic, but occasionally a campaign is restricted to a specific geographic region. It’s the exception rather than the rule, but because it sometimes happens that way we state so in our FAQs.

I encourage everyone in the music industry to consider Revver and sites like it. Ad revenue will not make up for the downturn in music sales yet; however, this is a direction every artist has to consider. Music sales revenue is not the future for the music industry; ad revenue, access revenue and publishing are where artists and labels are going to make money.

Congrats Revver.Thanks for sharing in a GetAndKeepAllTheMoney2.0 era.

Yet in the same amount of time I’ve gotten over 250,000 views on 15 big free video sites paying $0!! If these other sites were to ever monetize, producers like me could do well enough to really kick their stuff in the ass and try to make some big bucks with more and better videos. I’d immediately start to put up hundreds more joke videos and I’d make a full time living at this because my stuff’s funny as hell and people love it.

Try this joke at http://www.vume...deos/view/7707/ to see my original quality. On Vume this joke has only had 50 views and only made $.14 and also on Revver 100 views and only $.14 but it has had a few thousand views on all of the other sites. And that’s only one of my median videos. If I could monetize a quarter of a million views like I’ve just had, at this rate every 3 months I could quit my job and spend full time producing new stuff!

I believe that monetizing small producers like me in the way that these 2 pioneering sites are doing it will generate a lot more good stuff for the general public and for the advertisers. It’s a win – win situation for everyone. In fact, as producers like me look at all of the money the free sites are making off of our creativity, with no pay back at all to us, it makes us bitter and resentful enough to hold up production. In fact i’m so disgruntled about it that I’m personally on strike until more monetizing occurs.

For now, I’ve embedded links to my home site and to my stuff on Revver and Vume – on all of my stuff already up on the free sites, so I’m leaving them up as billboard ads to get traffic from them to these 2 monetized sites. I just have to use these 15 free sites for what little i can considering all of the time and effort i put into them.

But I’m not doing any more videos until someone big like you-tube or myspace monetizes! It’s just not worth all of my time and effort making them for just Revver and Vume with their small amount of traffic. But if a big site were to monetize then it would become worthwhile to make new stuff for all 3 sites and i’d start doing them again. And if more big sites monetize, it would really prod me to make more.

It would be nice if someone influential would start a producer’s union of some kind to have more and more of us strike until these free sites start sharing the wealth with us. If good small producers could unite and put their new stuff up onto these 2 sites and bargain / strike from there it might pressure the big free site’s to pay up!

I believe that “niche” contents, located “at the end of the long tail”, will probably not generate enough audience to be able to pay their creators simply with ad revenue sharing schemes : at the end, for contents interesting a limited and focused audience, the consumer will have to pay for the contents, or the contents will simply disappear, by lack of motivated creators…

However, I don’t expect them to last once YouTube starts paying out. Revver relies too heavily on viral and don’t do enough to grow and keep their audience.

I couldn’t believe they lost LG15 to MySpace–lord knows the producers are inept at the business side of things and probably took an offer, in desperation for cashflow, that anybody could’ve beat.