Make Money on the Internet With Your Videos

A guide to the best web sites that will enable you to convert your video into cold, hard cash

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Many musicians are using web videos to promote themselves, their bands and their music. These can be a great way to build a new audience and get music enthusiasts exposed to their work without having to go through the music industry machine. Musicians can add links to their web sites on their videos to drive interest, or actually have roll-over promo appear when a web visitor checks out their video. Good examples of this can be found at Guba.

Maybe the most interesting channel to make money with your Internet video is by using sites that allow you to post almost any kind of video you created.

It can be a sophisticated, dramatic piece or a video clip snippet captured from your camcorder or your video phone.  As long as you created it, you can make money from it. Once it is posted, whenever someone clicks on it and watches the video, you get paid. It’s all about driving content and eyeballs. Some interesting sites include LuluTV, VuMe, Flixya, Magnify.Net, Revver, BlipTV and many others.

For example, VuMe. Once you upload your videos to VuMe, they add banner ads to your personal media pages and tag an advertisement to the end of your videos. Every time someone clicks on your content to take a look or watch, you get paid. They are offering $3 for every 1,000 hits

BlipTV - Blip TV offers a 50/50 revenue share with the advertising that is streamed with your video. Blip TV says, “Blip.tv has built an open advertising marketplace where you can pick the video advertising company that works best for you. If you've got a hit show we'll even go out and meet with media buyers directly to get you a real, honest-to-goodness high-end sponsorship.”

Another option is YouTube. They recently announced that they will start running ads on their videos and will be sharing the revenue with the content providers. Check out this news story from Yahoo News and A P

Revver - Once you upload a video to Revver, they attach an ad and a unique tracking technology. Any ad revenue generated by the video is then split 50/50 between you and Revver. According to Revver, “Since ads are attached to the video itself and dynamically served wherever the video travels, there's no restriction on how your videos are distributed. The more people email your video, post it to other websites or download it from P2P networks, the more money you could earn.”

This is interesting. Revver also pays you for sharing other people’s videos on the Revver network. You can earn 20% of ad revenue for sharing videos by other Revver members. The remaining revenue is split 50/50 between the maker and Revver.

My WeShow enables anyone to become an online video aggregator: finding, creating, discussing, sharing and making money from video content - more

Make Money Making Online Video reviews

You can make up to $10 for each video review you create and upload. ExpoTV, is a video-based social commerce network specifically tailored for the consumers who like electronics and other fun gear.  It is sort of like YouTube meets Consumer Reports. 

 http://www.expotv.com/make/earn_money

ExpoTV.com currently offers nearly 100,000 “Videopinion”SM Reviews created by a fast-growing community of brand influentials. 

 Covering a broad range of categories including kitchen products, consumer electronics, entertainment and travel, ExpoTV’s Videopinions are available online at www.expotv.com

You Got to Promote Your OnLine Video

Once you have your videos uploaded, you also need to promote them and tell the world they are out there. For example, one of my favorite sites is French Maids TV - The Viral Video of “How To’s” by French Maids.   Their videos are everywhere – on Revver, on BlipTV, on YouTube, etc..

According to Tim Street, creator and executive Producer, not only do they get paid to create these “viral” videos by each show’s tech sponsors, they collect thousands of dollars each month by links on Revver and similar web sites.

These shows combine a lot of humor and a bit of sex to promote the product or service featured on each clip.  In addition to these natural hooks, he also promotes the show using RSS and podcast directories.

Tim said, “You need to make sure that you create a RSS Feed - a podcast of your videos. Then you need to get listed on all the podcast directories including the most important one of all, the one that can change your life forever, the one and only iTunes Store!  Seriously iTunes has done more to promote French Maid TV than any other thing out there. It took French Maid TV a month to get listed on the iTunes Store. Three days later French Maid TV was number one and we had twenty thousand subscribers.”

There is a lot of money to be made in online video. Whether you are just uploading short clips captured by your camcorder phone, creating infomercials or how to videos, or producing creative and funny short films or indie full-length features, the online market is hungry for content. Check out some of these sites listed below and find out how you can cash in on this opportunity.

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Promote Your Business and Promote Your Videos - How to Do It - all about PR and web marketing

Cinematech - Getting Paid: Sites that Help Makers of Film and Video Make Money