Metacafe is a web community/service of online video makers and viewers. Pretty much works like YouTube, with a cash rewards twist. At the face of it, there are basically two ways you can make money online via Metacafe and web videos: 1) Producer Rewards Program. This is specifically geared for people who enjoy creating original videos. Original videos may be uploaded by users and submitted to the producer rewards program. Basically, your video makes money when it meets certain criteria. Other than being original (and free from copyright issues), it starts “making money†when it reaches 1,000 views. You get $5 per thousand views. The catch? You can only get paid when your video reaches 20,000 views ($100) or more - AND it must keep a user rating of 3.0 or better. So yeah, you must bring in the numbers first. A tough gig to do, for sure. But, one user have been reported to have made nearly $100,000 in total. Other top producers have made $30,000+. Some have just made a few hundred dollars. I don’t think many YouTube users get that opportunity to make that type of money. At least, not at this time. 2) Metacafe Affiliate Program. If you’re not interested in creating original videos, but you still want to make money from online videos, then you might want to be a Metacafe affiliate instead. Just sign-up and put the video-sharing code on your site, and hope that that’s enough to collect some dollars. On closer look, though, I’m not really sure about this program, as it doesn’t say much about how folks are going to get paid and such. If you’ve tried Metacafe before and you have more insights on how to make money from it, I’d love to hear from you. If you have other types of experiences with Metacafe, your feedback is more than welcome too. I’m still waiting for my first paycheck, so if you can help me by watching and rating my videos.
seems like an awful lot of work......I hope that you're also embedding these videos in your own site and trying to monetize with adsense or something else as well to make money on the traffic you do get until they reach that 20,000+ point...
my friend did up to 1k with metacafe..its a great program,but you need to have criativity and make great videos
Very interesting... Does the site naturally have a lot of traffic? I've had some success with YouTube but this programs terms also look hard to meet. Thanks for the tip.