“People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue,”the BBC reports. “YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”. The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film. YouTube has more than 70m users a month and was recently bought by Google. The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website”.

YouTubers to get ad money share

“People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue,”the BBC reports. “YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”. The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, [...]