I've been earning since last year through youtube promoting CPA products and today I came across a competition. I think this is one of the best CPA promotion videos I've ever seen. I see a lot of ads for free laptops, ipads, cellphones, etc but this one has totally caught my attention.... I think I can emulate this ad.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8mURFQdqQ
Care to explain why it looks cheap and bad? According to video, he is a naturalized US citizen so expect bad English. But I think the idea of this ad is okay.. I am actually starting to make my own emulating this one... with better voice.. LOL
I also don't think this is very good. If I am honest the best way to do something like this is to simply rip an already uploaded proffesional video and either change the audio to you talking over it or simply watermark it with your website or aff link. Repeat this process and with good optimization and you will see a lot more success.
I am surprised that you think this video is so good. It is quite boring, unprofessional and uses very little to keep attention, but what the heck I have seen worse doing well. If you are doing this firstly check out the competition then keyword research and finally bookmark and backlink your video to get it up the serps.
I have not had much luck on youtube. would be interesting to try something like this and see what results I get.
The best way to go about things on Youtube is to basically rip a video that looks good, watermark it with your website or affiliate link. Then be sure to do your keyword research and upload it. Rinse a repeat A LOT of times and you will be extremelly successful. The key is persistance and volume. Putting 1 video on per day for a week is not going to get you anywhere. There all also bots that you can get which can help you speed this process up.
Usually you shouldn't copy a video EXACTLY. Always try to make changes that will make yours better than the others. But no, if the video isn't owned by a company or doesn't have a copyright note or something on it and it's just done by a regular youtuber then copying it should'nt be a problem. Nobody ever got into problems doing it but it's not recommend if you want to make money from it since your goal is to beat your competition and be better than them, and copying EXACTLY won't help. But improvements on the video is good.