It’s official: YouTube to pay 5000 bucks for competition winner

Posted on October 1, 2007
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More and more video sharing sites are online, but only few of the (, Metacafe’, etc.) offer chances to win/earn . Today, Monday morning, we got good for those of you who would like to become filmmakers.

As Webware reports YouTube “announced a new initiative called Project Direct, a contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard in which aspiring filmmakers are encouraged to films between two and seven minutes in length. A total of 20 finalists will be chosen by a panel led by Thank You For Smoking director Jason Reitman; the final winner out of those 20 will be chosen by voters”.

It seems to be a good way to interact with users, even though I don’t think has got any reason to be worried about users uploading fewer videos than in the past. What I would really love is to be allowed to earn exactly in the way Metacafe allows to do it. My videos haven’t earned a single penny on Metacafe, but to my knowledge many of you have earned at least few bucks on it.

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2 Responses to “It’s official: YouTube to pay 5000 bucks for competition winner”

  1. Jonathan on October 1st, 2007 10:56 pm

    They give $ 5000 to a person, but they still earn billions of dollares. People are so naive that they still get involved in such competitions.

  2. Lara on October 1st, 2007 11:06 pm

    Jonathan sorry, but that’s their business. YouTube is free so they should earn as much as they can. No doubt about that.

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