One of the services that I’ve encountered during Blog World Expo was Commission Videos. The general idea is that they provide you with video content that’s relevant to your blog or site. And, every time a video is played, you get paid per one thousand impressions. If you set your video player to autoplay, you get paid $0.50 CPM (fifty cents per thousand impressions). If your video player is not on auto play, you get paid $7 CPM.

So, what do you need to do to get started? Just go to their site, register your information, pick a relevant feed, follow embed instructions to get the code, and then add the code to your blog or site.

There are a few topics to choose from in terms of their video feeds. They have videos relevant to news, politics, business, technology, science, beauty, fashion, travel,and entertainment.

The concept is quite promising. I like the idea that video distributors can get paid just by people viewing the videos. No one needs to click on any ads. I also like that the video feeds automatically update. It would be nice, of course, if there are more ways to customize the feeds.

In any case, the site is simple to understand, but it is still sparse on available information. But, they’re still in beta. So, they’re probably developing a few things.

Anyway, the Commission Video folks I met donated a couple of swag to give away here at JMMO. So, watch out for a giveaway one of these days.

Here’s a sample video feed from Commission Videos:

Image source: Commission Junction; edits – Shai Coggins

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Commission Videos: Make Money by Distributing Video Content

Another exciting news for Amazon affiliates! Amazon.com now offers Video-on-Demand technology. So, now if you have a blog or site that may be tied-in to various movies and TV shows, this is your chance to make money online by offering these shows available as downloadable products. And yes, they’re available for both PCs and Macs. Fun, eh?

Anyway, to get the widgets for this, just log in to your Amazon Affiliate account and look for the Movie and TV Preview widget. You can also choose some videos from the ‘products link’. You can come up with specific widgets/links to individual products – or to a genre or two (even more!). It will depend on the nature of your blog/site.

In any case, if you’re using Amazon video-on-demand, please feel free to share your URL in the comments section. It’ll be great to see sample uses!

Here’s a sample widget that I came up with:

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Amazon Offers Video-on-Demand

If you’ve ever considered selling premium content on your blogs or sites, then Klatcher might be a third party service that you might like to look in to. It’s free to use – and you can upload any type of files – text, photos, videos, podcasts, and other documents. But, the only guideline is for publishers to offer at least 10% of their uploaded content for sale.

They offer 65% revenue share (based on content sale price) with publishers. And, it’s all payable via Paypal.

Also, they have offered 10 cents per 99 views to all publishers with a US bank account. But, I’m not certain how long this offer will last.

I haven’t given it a full go just yet, so I’m not sure how the service works. And since I’m based in Australia, their offer of pay-per-view isn’t something I can check.

In any case, if you try it out, I’d be interested to hear from you.

Anyway, for more ideas, here’s a video on Klatcher:

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Klatcher: Sell Premium Online Content

Over the last year or so, there had been more and more ways to monetize video content. One big company who recently embraced this concept is Amazon when they launched the Amazon Video Widget.

Basically, the idea is that when you sign-in to your Amazon affiliate account, you can visit the Video Widget wizard (under ‘Widgets’ section). Using the wizard, you can upload an original video and add relevant Amazon products as pop-ads. You can add as many – or as little – as you wish. Video formats accepted include: avi, flv, mov, wmv.

Here as an example:

It still seemed a bit buggy when I tested it out. Some products were added, but they disappear on the video playback.

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to know how people will accept this type of video monetization. Let me know what you think of it!

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Amazon Video Widget

YouTube is probably one of the most popular services online. But, how do you incorporate its use in helping you to make money online?

1. Add Premium Partners’ Videos on Your Blog or Site. If you have an Adsense account, log in and get the code for ‘video units’. You can create a YouTube Video Player and customise it according to various categories, key words, and content providers.

2. Run affiliate ads on YouTube videos. Chris on Making Money Scoop has some tips on how to do this using various tools.

3. Provide regular quality video content. Perhaps, you can become a ‘premium’ publisher and Google will split ad revenues with you.

4. Start a video blog or site that features various YouTube content. These blogs and sites can be anything from cute animal videos to craft tutorials. Then, run relevant ads and affiliate programmes on your blog or site.

5. Accept direct ads on your YouTube content. If you upload your own videos on a regular basis and you have a decent following, you might want to accept ads on your videos.

6. Enrich your sales using YouTube videos. If you sell an item on an online shop and you are able to compliment your listings with YouTube videos, then it will be useful. Also, you can link to your sales page on your YouTube. This might help bring video viewers to visit your sales page.

So, do you use YouTube at all in your online business? Can you think of other ways to use YouTube videos to help you to make money online?

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6 Ways to Make Money Using YouTube

Thanks to social network sites, Internet marketing is quickly becoming easier to do nowadays. One of the recent projects I got involved with required tapping MySpace as a marketing tool. While looking for methods to shorten the learning curve, I’ve found this useful video. It is actually the second part of a mini-course on how to make money online with MySpace created by Marcus Schroefel of High Integrity Marketing. It’s basically about learning how to look for groups that might be interested in your products or services.

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How-to Video: Niche Hunting on MySpace

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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Metacafe: Make Money with Online Videos

At first, I thought this is about hotel scandals sold to video sites. But it’s actually about getting paid for a video that gives an idea to anyone who’d like to place a booking at the hotel filmed – a review video.

Tripr.TV is the website that’s offering payment for every booked hotel that resulted from the viewing of the submitted hotel video.

If a video review submitter achieves the Pro status which can be attained with the help of a good camera work, good lighting, video sound, and other criteria that add to the quality of the video review, one can earn 30% of the total commission.

This is a good source of extra income for those who travel a lot and can’t live without their video cameras.

via TechCrunch

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Make Money from Hotel Videos

After participating in a contest that might help in getting me a long-term project this year, I’m in the mood for sharing these contest links and other possible ways to make money online to all of you. Good luck!

Squidoo is looking for a software developer. If you know one who’s available, you might earn a quick $3,000.

You might want to try your luck to win an even quicker $50 just by subscribing to PerfectBlogging’s RSS feeds by email. – via John Chow

How about winning an HDTV and Windows Media Center Extender? Gizmodo is running an interesting photo contest for those drooling over those prizes.

Phauntactions has another fun photo contest wherein you can win $25.

Are you a video whiz? Video Wrap offers $1000 to someone who can create the best short video about their product.

Got a business idea that you’ve been dying to share? New Ideas offers $100 to $5,000 to those who’d like to help in making South Carolina a better place with their excellent business ideas.

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Try Your Luck in Making Money Online Quick: Contests and Referral

Jason van Orden (from The Podcast Underground) talks about how he makes money online from podcasts and blogs. Yes, he claims to make around $70,000 from podcasting and blogging (in Q3). And no, it’s not from selling ads or running affiliate programmes.

The biggest tip? It’s all about Premium Content – downloads, membership-only sites, CDs, ebooks, webinars, workshops, etc.

In this podcast episode, Jason outlines 7 steps or tips on how to create this type of premium content. The show lasts for about 30 minutes.

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$70,000 from Podcasting and Blogging