Newsdesk - Youtube partner sharing program

Youtube are putting a system in place that will allow its users (some, not all) to make money in a revenue sharing program. The program has been tested in the last year and is a partner system.

User’s can apply to be a youtube partner and if they qualify will be able to get a cut of the AdSense advertising revenue associated with the videos on the site. The criteria for membership are:

—You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
—You own the copyrights and distribution rights for all audio and video content that you upload — no exceptions.
—You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users.
—You live in the United States or Canada.

So far it hasn’t been revealed how much of a share you will receive if you do qualify as a partner. The list of current partners is quite diverse as well from universal music group to that annoying lonelygirl15 girl.

This is an interesting development in user generated content as far as revenue sharing programs for user generated content go I think youtube will be one of the most popular ones, as long as the users get a decent share from the revenue.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/youtube-shares-the-wealth-with-everyone-apply-now/