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Can video content, video blogging, or video sales make you any money online? The answer is yes, but the amount of income you can generate this way varies widely.
Some popular video blogs such as Pop 17 by Sarah Austin garner sponsors and other benefits of high traffic. Pop 17's success is partly based on being in the right place with with a hot topic and the right contacts, savvy marketing via YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, syndication on iTunes and RSS and plain old appealing material.
According to a report at PatPhelan.net the video site Flixwagon offered to pay Sarah Austin (and other video bloggers) some nice sums to post videos at Flixwagon. (Flixwagon provides a way to broadcast live video from your mobile phone, another video opportunity that could help generate income.)
A video site that has both sponsors and advertisers is Webb Alert. Webb Alert is a daily videocast of tech news. The PopCrunch Show, a celebrity gossip site, makes advertising money with video.
People are out there doing it, and making money. Does joining their ranks sound like an approach you'd like to take?
There are tools to make adding video to your blog easier. One such set of tools is availble from Kaltura. Kaltura provides free video players, editors and blog tools for a variety of blog platforms.
According to Lisa Sabin-Wilson you can learn quite a lot about video blogging at BlogWorld Expo 09 scheduled in Las Vegas in September.
Adding video to your own blog or YouTube in the hopes of making advertising dollars is not the only option for a good videographer. There's the stock video route. I recently shopped for a few seconds of video and found a huge selection of stock footage. I was looking for travel film from Greece and settled on a film of a man swimming peacefully in the ocean with the sound of the waves in the background. Simple stuff, but the price tag was $15. The videoographer would earn some of that each time it sells.
A number of stock photo/stock video sites have options for videographers that allow you to sell footage online using their systems. Here are some of the better known:
- Pond 5, which bills itself as the world's largest stock footage marketplace and shares sales with you 50-50.
- istockphoto, where you can earn between 20–40% on sales.
- Pixelflow, where the royalties are based on media format.
- Shutterstock, where you earn 25 cents per download.
If you think video is helping you with increased traffic, more ad revenue, or in some other way, let us know where you're blogging so we can see what you're doing and how you do it.
