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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Mon/break.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Mon/break.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db97530 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Mon/break.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[Break.com, a video sharing site][1] similar to YouTube [announced yesterday that it will pay $400 for user-generated videos][2] and as much as $2000 for animated shorts. When Break launched last year they offered $50 per video and later raised that to $250 before yesterday's increase to $400.
With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. [Metacafe launched a similar program called "producer rewards"][3] earlier this year.
In the case of Break, the only stipulation on getting paid is that your video must make it to the homepage. Unfortunately Break doesn't offer much info on how exactly your video can make it to the homepage
The one off payment model differs from sites like [Revver][4] which offer a revenue sharing model where the money earned is based on how many views your video receives. Revver and others like it seem to aim more for serial content (like that of lonelygirl15 or Ze Frank's *The Show* for instance) whereas clips likely to generate only one time views are probably better served by Break, Metacafe and other flat rate services.
A quick browse through the videos on Break failed to find much of what I would call quality content. But to be fair, Break's tag line is "the largest online site for guys," and the content clearly reflects that audience with innumerable videos of backyard stunts, and various sports misshaps as well as a whole NSFW section.
With the online video market still in its infancy, it's tough to gauge where these sites will be in a few years, but one thing is for sure, if you offer money, they will come. Break's homepage claims they have paid out over $300,000 to amateur producers so far.
[1]: http://www.break.com/ "Break.com"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-26T080107Z_01_N24177992_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBVIDEO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Break.com increases Video payments"
[4]: http://one.revver.com/browse/Editor%27s+Picks "Revver.com"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired on metacafe"
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