Comments on: Quick Hits: MySpace-Revver Block, Pixsy

By: mourning » Quick Hits: MySpace-Revver Block, Pixsy

mourning » Quick Hits: MySpace-Revver Block, Pixsy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:16:32 +0000

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By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:38:07 +0000

Sharing your revenue with MySpace sounds like a reasonable solution…would love to know how that discussion goes.

By: Micki Krimmel (Revver)

Micki Krimmel (Revver) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:17:57 +0000

To be clear, Revver does not sell ads on myspace pages. We sell ads against the videos uploaded to our system which are OWNED BY THE CONTENT CREATORS. Myspace does not own this content. We believe that independent video creators deserve to share in the revenue generated by their work wherever it is seen across the web.

That said, we are not just a widget-builder. Our business was not built on the back of myspace's success. But it's important to our users to be able to share and promote their work on Myspace. It's also important to them to use a video-hosting service that honors their copyright and shares the revenue. Should Myspace be able to make that decision for them?

We have offered to work with Myspace on a revenue sharing deal. Our model is built on rewarding affiliate sites and we have lots of ways to do that.

By: Kent Nichols

Kent Nichols — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:35:36 +0000

Basically most of the TOS’s out there are worded in such a way that practically every use is a violation.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:57:35 +0000

For competitive reasons, YouTube will eventually start inserting Revver-type ads on videos (perhaps just for key producers). At that point, MySpace will be forced to decide: Are embedded videos adding content or are they "making money off the back of MySpace"?

It's actually both... so hopefully a revenue-sharing model between YouTube and video-hosting sites will happen this year.

By: Aaron Cohen

Aaron Cohen — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:27:51 +0000

Liz:

Myspace is totally right. Revver talks a big game in the marketplace to their advertisers about sharing revenue with content creators and syndication partners, but I see their ads on my site periodically and we've never received a check.

I don't know anybody with whom they have a distribution agreement that's getting paid. At one point, I complained about this and for a week or so got some followup, but then they drifted away again...

it is not clear to me where the Revver revnue (to the extent that there is any) comes to syndication partners. Using Myspace to make people aware of your product is one thing (that's called marketing). Selling advertising on MySpace screen real estate presents more challenges for everybody in that particular value chain.

By: Mehul Patel

Mehul Patel — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:28:23 +0000

It seems MySpace is rite 100% its like you start Giga Om, You / your team slog, create and find the world’s best trends and stories and then I come with some tricky Web 2.0 / 3.0 scirpt and start making money from your users without informing you or doing a Rev Share with you…I believe Revver and many other firms who feel MySpace is large marketing platform should approach MySpace and association with MySpace shud figure out a way to work together generate additional revenues if they are sensible and scalable enuf for all involved