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Post by jayhenry on May 4, 2007 10:18:32 GMT -5
Popular on YouTube? You may soon get a profit cutIt's finally happening. YouTube is cutting its top-channels in on the cash. Only a select group of channels will be introduced to the revenue sharing (at least for now), and among those is lonelygirl15. (P.S. this was not very good timing for MM&G to commit ratings suicide on YouTube) Here's the blog entry where YouTube announced it last night: YouTube blog annoncementOf course, it goes without saying that Revver can't possibly survive this. Although YouTube will only be paying the big, popular channels, those are the people that Revver needed to have a prayer of survival. Hopefully the Cs know not to have any foolish loyalty to Revver. Miles, Mesh and Greg -- get the show back on YouTube ASAP. Do NOT neglect the YouTube audience anymore. Also, to the die-hard fan -- I suggest downloading your copies of My Lazy Eye, First Blog and Grillz fast. That copyrighted content is probably going to get yanked as a condition of the file-sharing.
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Post by milowent on May 4, 2007 12:46:39 GMT -5
interesting. i am reading this as saying lonelygirl15 was already a partner?
"We want to start changing some of the perception here. Which is why we’re adding several of the most popular and prolific original content creators from the YouTube community to our partnership program. Now some of your favorite YouTube members, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary, will begin to participate in the same revenue sharing and promotional opportunities that are available to YouTube's other partners"
lg15 shows up when you click the "other partners" link.
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Post by jayhenry on May 4, 2007 17:39:22 GMT -5
interesting. i am reading this as saying lonelygirl15 was already a partner? "We want to start changing some of the perception here. Which is why we’re adding several of the most popular and prolific original content creators from the YouTube community to our partnership program. Now some of your favorite YouTube members, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary, will begin to participate in the same revenue sharing and promotional opportunities that are available to YouTube's other partners" lg15 shows up when you click the "other partners" link. No, what they're saying is "we're proud of these 5 content producers and here's the complete list." Currently only those sponsored corporate channels have any sort of official deal with YouTube.
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Post by elixir on May 5, 2007 3:51:46 GMT -5
Well, the gap between Revver to YouTube certainly seems to be closing in more now. Thankfully! YouTube is only two videos behind as of this post. I hope that this news means that they can now ditch Revver, or at least release videos on YouTube first.
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trash180
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Post by trash180 on May 5, 2007 10:29:05 GMT -5
I like that you can download the videos on revver. I'd miss that convenience.
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Post by elixir on May 5, 2007 11:09:35 GMT -5
You can still download them off YouTube, but you need to download another programme first (a player that plays flash videos). It's a bit sneaky, but you can still do it... *shifty eyes*... There are a few steps involved. I think I might as well go through them in case anyone wants to know how to do this. If you don't need to know, then you can skip the rest of my post. 1. Download a programme such as this free Riva FLV Player 1.2 It comes with an FLV player and an FLV encoder, so you can install them both and encode the .flv files to .wmv et cetra. 2. Once you have installed those, go to YouTube and select the video you want to download. Copy the URL for the video. 3. Go to keepvid.com/ Paste the URL in the text box at the top of the page, and select, from the drop down menu, the site you are downloading from, which will be YouTube. 4. Click download. Underneath, it will be displayed something like this: Original link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQcMr4CJp4 ›› Download Link ‹‹ (.flv - Flash Video) Click ›› Download Link ‹‹ Then select 'save'. Save the video under whatever name, but you must end the file with .flv or it wont work. 5. When it has finished downloading, it will ask what programme to open the video with. If it doesn't do this automatically, click on the file to open it and it should happen. Select the Riva FLV player, and tell it to do the same for all of these files that end in .flv. Then you can open it, and ta-da it should play. As for encoding: 1. You just go into FLV encoder, browse for the file you want to encode. Browse for the directory you want to store it in, eg. desktop. Then where it says 'Destination video file', make sure you change the file to .wmv or whatever you are changing it to, or it won't encode! 2. Click 'encode'. It normally takes a moment, but it should work. 3. Go into the folder where you saved it and it should open in media player, or whatever other programme you want it to. So yes, it is not as convenient, but once you have all the software and know what you are doing it's pretty easy to do. So at least if Revver gets ditched, you can still keep the videos this way.
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Post by trash180 on May 5, 2007 15:39:26 GMT -5
Thanks, E. Keepvid rocks...I do think I like the higher quality of the revvers tho...and the aforementioned convenience. Keepvid doesn't seems to work too well with the myspace videos (prom queen supplemental).
ETA...ooh...I take it back. Once I updated my VLC, the FLVs play perfectly.
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Post by oweniscool on May 5, 2007 15:59:33 GMT -5
Another way to download videos off the PooTube: if you use Firefox, there's handy extension called Download Helper. All you have to do is go to the url of the video you want to download, and click the DownloadHelper button on the browser. It works for other websites too.
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Post by trash180 on May 5, 2007 20:16:06 GMT -5
OH...wow, that Mozilla thing is sweet. I can't believe I didn't do this before. sheesh. ETA: vixy.net/ lets you convert flv into MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. That's kinda sweet.
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Post by elixir on May 5, 2007 23:43:40 GMT -5
vixy.net looks cool. I agree with the quality being better from Revver though. And I sooo have to get Firefox. It seems like everyone can't praise it enough.
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Post by buckwheat on Jul 22, 2007 16:10:47 GMT -5
Interesting to watch how this develops: " Revver raised the stakes this week. Until now, the company would run small graphical ads at the end of every stream. Creators would be paid only when someone was tempted enough to click on the ad. Now Revver will be testing pre-roll ads. No action will be required to generate a piece of the ad revenue, but the ad will run before the actual upload. www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/07/19/show-me-the-money-youtube.aspx
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