Comments on: Embed videos to make money?

By: Dena

Dena — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:07:13 +0000

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.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:37:01 +0000

Believe it or not this is a sponsored post, hence the “Sponsored by TheNewsRoom” image at the end of the article.

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:46:16 +0000

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???

By: Thaed

Thaed — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:07:02 +0000

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.

By: Business Twins

Business Twins — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:43:19 +0000

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

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:25:59 +0000

Other than the enforced commercial at the beginning, it looks pretty good ;)

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:05:01 +0000

You also can not adjust the volume during the comercial! I had to jump down to the system tray to mute my speakers!

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:02:16 +0000

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!

By: Charbarred

Charbarred — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:58:28 +0000

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.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:51:54 +0000

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.