According to the Daily Mail:

YouTube users could be paid for their video clips after the popular website was bought by Google for around $1.6bn (£900m).

Those who upload clips will get a slice of advertising revenue on the pages containing their videos.

Sweet!  Time to dust off all the old Adsense spam tools for a new era of YouTube rev-sharing with Google.  Could be a little tricky autogenerating video content, though.  Might have to call my buddies in Hollywood for their supercool CGI apps.  Maybe something like a Pixar-looking LonelyGirl15…err, LonelyMesotheliomaGirl15?

In all seriousness, though…and if this is true…be prepared for the wholesale pollution of what was a nascent content distribution model.  I’m not saying at some level this isn’t a huge inflection point for the Internet.  Because it is.  But as we all know, the aggressive internet marketers will beat the hell out of this more often than we see the LonelyGirl15’s of the world enter the UPS Club.

And just so I’m not delinquent in offering the B2B or Corporate SEO slant to all this, I’m thinking there could be some opportunity here to arbitrage webinars…

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