Using Revver For Videos Instead of YouTube

A while back I wrote a post about paying for user generated content. As someone who generates a lot of content on the web and knows the value it can bring I believe very passionately in this topic.

For almost two months now I have been recording videos of folding paper airplanes and posting them to my YouTube account but also linking them from my paper airplane website. The videos have been seen 150 000 times in under two months... pretty good going in my mind. Every time the video is shown YouTube gets free advertising and free promotion on my site. I help increase awareness and consideration of YouTube outside the usual web2.0 style audiences who already know about their product.

In return the pay a lot of money for bandwidth which I couldn't afford and that is cool. I still however feel they are earning more from me than I am from them. This is where revver comes in. Revver pays me to show people videos on my site in a revenue share stylee. When someone views a video on my site to the very end they see an advert. If they click on that advert I get a 50% revenue share.

I am already earning $6 a day with less than 1/5 of the potential exposure I could give these videos and only 1/2 of the exposure YouTube is currently getting on my site. I will continue to add videos to revver and see what money I can make from improving my user experience.

I am even on the verge of finally giving up the crack that is pop unders.