hool10
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I have a camera that can take ok'ish video's for 35 seconds. In 2007 I took a video of myself TIG welding and just pushed play and put the camera on a table:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5s60JMxNU
I thought it was a cool video. I didn't know how cool the world thought that video was though. Somebody had actually embedded my video into their store trying to sell their welding machines. I had to disable it temporarily and it was off the site last year.
Here is when it gets good though. Google sent me an e-mail saying my video had over 9000 views a few months back!
So many views in fact that I could make money off it!
They said it would take a bit of time for the ad to show so I abandoned the video again. I recently checked up on the video using Google InSight. On average the video gets 200 views a day, 127,736 in total. The ad companies who put that tiny ad in the middle have received $40.86! In fact I earned $13.59 for October alone!
This is all from a shitty 35sec video that I thought looked cool.
Now they want to do the same on my TF2 video which was probably the first on youtube but I won't make money off Valve expense. I'm just putting this thread here to show you guys that it can pay to put a cruddy video on youtube.![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5s60JMxNU
I thought it was a cool video. I didn't know how cool the world thought that video was though. Somebody had actually embedded my video into their store trying to sell their welding machines. I had to disable it temporarily and it was off the site last year.
Here is when it gets good though. Google sent me an e-mail saying my video had over 9000 views a few months back!
Now they want to do the same on my TF2 video which was probably the first on youtube but I won't make money off Valve expense. I'm just putting this thread here to show you guys that it can pay to put a cruddy video on youtube.