Apparently Youtube has made the move to bring some of it’s content producers up to the level of partner by way of revenue sharing. The concept of sharing revenue with content producers online in the video realm is not new. Revver has been doing this for some time now.

Now that the 500lb gorilla has jumped into the mix, what other areas online might feel the vibration?

1) Will Google have to start paying it’s other content contributors? (Sam Zell and others think so.)

2) Will Digg need to consider paying it’s top diggers?

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3) What’s going to happen to the “information wants to be free” vibe of the internet?

4) As revenue models become more predominant will the costs eventually be passed onto the end user?

I find this development sad and exciting at the same time. On the one hand, it looks like we are saying good bye to yet another chapter of the wild wild west days of the web. On the other, there is going to be a world of opportunity and new interesting situations to develop as this concept matures.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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