Monetizing online video is difficult. Oh, I am very well versed in how hard it is. While Spacevidcast has been growing and we had a stellar month in July for income, it is still a far cry from where we want to be. If only there was an online company that could distribute, track and monetize my videos for me. What’s that? Blip has struck a partnership with, well, just about everyone? Well that sure does seem cool!
I know, it is an hour long video with something like 15 minutes up front of nothingness (just skip forward, oh wait it’s @^!#*%& LiveStream and they make that as complex as possible) but check out all the action packed announcements. While the YouTube Partner Channel has brought in a good chunk of cash for Spacevidcast, I have a feeling that this could do even better.
I’m excited at the possibility of getting Spacevidcast not only distributed to many, many video sharing sites but also TiVo set top boxes, Roku set top boxes, AppleTV devices, iPhones, iPods and of course many video sharing sites. We’ll see how this all goes but it looks good as a first step.
The more we can make in advertising, the more content we can offer for free and outside of the Spacevidcats Pro walled garden (which is good, we want to give it all away for free if we can).