Believe it or not you can make money with a blog. Very few bloggers make enough money to quit their day job but a lot of us do make enough to afford a few video games and other bits of tech to make out lives better. Does the work to reward ratio work in our favor? Sometimes.
There is a website on the net called The News Room which allows you to make money by embedding fully licensed news videos onto your site.
Yes, you read that right, you can make money just for embedding some video content on your site. The CPM rate starts at $1 and goes as high as $4. You can see the payment chart on their website.
Not only can you make money off their CPM-based program you also get access to a bunch of good news clips that can help to inspire you to write something.
I know many bloggers wake up in the morning and wonder, "what do I blog about today?" You can scan the news sites or think up a funny story but sometimes you get stuck. With The News Room in your corner you can quickly find videos and press releases to blog about.
I do use a lot of news feeds to get ideas for blog posts and I will be adding this one to my list.
Here is an example video from their service:
Look at those crazy Star Wars fans! This is the kind of News by friend Force Drainer would write about.
So, how does The News Room make their money? They slip a short commercial in before the video runs. It is nothing long or terrible, just a quick spot from a sponsor.
As long as your blog can get a good amount of traffic (you need 1,000 views to make money) you can add a nice revenue stream to your blog that also inspires you to write. Not only can you make money when people view the video on your site but, if it goes "viral" from people getting it from you then you also make money off of those who copy it from you.
Now for the bad. As you can see above, there is no text wrapped around the video. The standard code they give you is somewhat complex and beyond my 5:00AM brain to properly alter for wrap around text. I did move it to the right side of my blog so as not to interfere with back ground gradient image, but that is about it. Also, the money is based on 1,000 impressions/views. If you are not getting that many hits on your site than you may never see a dime. I did not see anything on the site saying you have to earn those 1,000 views on each individual piece so I'm going to guess it is an aggregate number for all the content you get from the News Room.
I'm going to be giving The News Room a shot here on the blog and I suggest you at least look into it for your site.
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We’ve been trying that out this week too. It’s a cool idea. It’s nice that the video quality is very good and it’s AP and Reuters, etc. so it’s legit sources.
I’m hoping for the same thing about aggregating the traffic vs. 1K views per individual videos!
Yes, the video quality is quite good, better than what you get from YouTube.
I figure I’ll check what they have and see if it fits anything I’m about to write about and then toss it in. I just need to sit down and hack their div statement to make it wrap around my text properly.
Interesting concept. Only problem is that once you press play, you cannot stop the video until the initial ad is over. People surfing from work will either panic or close their browser.
It is possible. So, when will the music industry jump on this? The you can add videos to the Plugg and get paid when people watch them!
You also can not adjust the volume during the comercial! I had to jump down to the system tray to mute my speakers!
Other than the enforced commercial at the beginning, it looks pretty good ;)
Do you get paid once the reader presses play? Or does the viewer have to complete the whole video?
I noticed that you can’t stop the video during the initial add as well…Great quality though. I’ll have to go check our their programs. Thanks for letting us know about this. :D
-Gregg
Nifty. I use Wordpress that’s hosted by Wordpress for free for my blog. Even though I get decent traffic, I doubt they’ll ever allow adsense or any way to embed paying stuff. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Steve, I think that has real potential, I will definitely look into it… I find embedding video a bit of a pain in wordpress, it does some strange things… I will be really interested to see how you get on with this.
1000 click think is a bummer, but I think vids will be a LOT easier to get clicked than conventional ads… its almost second nature to want to play them…
Where did you dig this one up???
Believe it or not this is a sponsored post, hence the “Sponsored by TheNewsRoom” image at the end of the article.
Looks like a great idea except I don’t get 1000 readers a day (or even a week) to my blog! By the time I would get to 1000 readers the video would be off the front page!!!
Nice work Roy.