Metacafe: Make Money with Online Videos
Metacafe is a web community/service of online video makers and viewers. Pretty much works like YouTube, with a cash rewards twist.
At the face of it, there are basically two ways you can make money online via Metacafe and web videos:
1) Producer Rewards Program. This is specifically geared for people who enjoy creating original videos. Original videos may be uploaded by users and submitted to the producer rewards program.
Basically, your video makes money when it meets certain criteria. Other than being original (and free from copyright issues), it starts “making money” when it reaches 1,000 views. You get $5 per thousand views.
The catch? You can only get paid when your video reaches 20,000 views ($100) or more - AND it must keep a user rating of 3.0 or better. So yeah, you must bring in the numbers first.
A tough gig to do, for sure. But, one user have been reported to have made nearly $100,000 in total. Other top producers have made $30,000+. Some have just made a few hundred dollars. I don’t think many YouTube users get that opportunity to make that type of money. At least, not at this time.
2) Metacafe Affiliate Program. If you’re not interested in creating original videos, but you still want to make money from online videos, then you might want to be a Metacafe affiliate instead. Just sign-up and put the video-sharing code on your site, and hope that that’s enough to collect some dollars. On closer look, though, I’m not really sure about this program, as it doesn’t say much about how folks are going to get paid and such.
If you’ve tried Metacafe before and you have more insights on how to make money from it, I’d love to hear from you. If you have other types of experiences with Metacafe, your feedback is more than welcome too.
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3 opinions for Metacafe: Make Money with Online Videos
Joseph Martin
Mar 10, 2008 at 4:27 am
Sounds like a good deal, I think I’ll give it a try.
megan
Jul 2, 2008 at 4:42 am
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infosys
Jul 21, 2008 at 2:29 am
Its really a good deal. If you are going on a trip to a beautiful locale, you can catch some pretty videos, post them on metacafe and hope to earn some nice dollars from them.
If you have any good technical papers on your site, then you can make instructional videos and get paid by posting them on metacafe. also post them on your site using embed code :)
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