YouTube To Share Revenue With 20-year-old Filmmaker

destinyland writes "YouTube just has signed a deal to share ad revenue with 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher. YouTube had already said they'd implement revenue sharing this summer, but this indicates they're willing to put their money where their mouth was. 10 Zen Monkeys has a funny chronicle of Brandon's enviable march to YouTube money. 9 weeks ago he flew to California to demand YouTube feature his video on their front page. A security guard refused to let him off the elevator — but he made crucial contacts which helped seal the deal 9 weeks later. Taking this business to the next level makes sense in the here and now, when some 70 percent of internet users are streaming video."

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[niceone]

A security guard refused to let him off the elevator -- but he made crucial contacts which helped seal the deal 9 weeks later

Eh? Was the Secutiry Guard promoted to Head of Revenue Sharing in the intervening 9 weeks?

Re:YouTube are NOT doing this the right way!

[ForumTroll]

The single main reason why is because the people with the most traffic on YouTube are also usually the people producing the worst actual content; they're populist attention seekers producing mindless drivel, purely for the sake of their own self-promotion.

You couldn't have described the "20-year-old filmmaker" from this article any better... His show is basically a terrible MySpace version of Blind Date. Come to think of it, it's actually quite the feat since I was unaware that it was possible to make a show worse than Blind Date.

Re:YouTube are NOT doing this the right way!

[Seumas]

What is a MySpace version of Blind Date like?

Is it just some eleven year old girl meeting some 48 year old gym teacher in a hotel room, followed by an hour of Nancy Grace talking about shutting down the internet to save the children?

Come to think of it, why in the hell would you date someone who uses myspace?! What could be a bigger and more consistent sign of being an attention whore? It should be an enormous warning flag to run the other way.

Re:Global figures?

[Cal Paterson]

It's probably a tongue in cheek reference about how similar the USA is to the USSR.