YouTube Expands Partner Program, $1 Million Distributed So Far
Jason Kincaid
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Youtube has announced that their Partner Program is expanding to include Japan, Austrailia, and Ireland. It was previously only available to users in Canada, the UK, and the United States. The program is designed to reward Youtube’s most prolific and popular video providers with portions of the ad revenues gained from their videos.
Since December, when it was first made available to all users, the program has paid out more than $1 million to these partners. YouTube first announced a pilot of the program last May, which was offered only to handpicked members of the YouTube community. Now, all users from the aforementioned countries are welcome to apply, but they must still be approved by Youtube based on their popularity and history following the site’s TOS.
YouTube doesn’t pay worth a crap compared to Metacafe. KipKay averages ~$1000 per video over there off Producer Rewards.
So how much is the average pay for popular videos in YouTube?
so you can make living by creating videos ?
Dang, I was really hoping that Australia would be included in the partner program soon. Why does Austrailia always get everything before us?
Wow, how can Google afford it! A whole chintzy million.
vizion quest…do you know how much each of top 10(by rating) producers/directors earn on youtube?
I’ve heard similar data from other “smaller” partners.
These are disappointing numbers for burgeoning grassroots content creation teams out there. YouTube needs to reevaluate their tiered system… a view is a view. In fact, it could be argued that the more viral the view the better the chance that an advertiser is finding a new consumer.
Paying the “Big Boys” a higher CPM rate can only lead to community disappointment and eventual exodus… perhaps the “Do No Evil” mantra doesn’t apply to Google’s subsidiaries.
I am a Revver fan… they pay great and considering I have well over 100 3D animation videos up there… they have become a predictable and growing income stream. I have the same videos on youtube and they generate squat.
Jon
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