It's only a matter of a few hundred dollars, but after high acquisitive LiveUniverse acquired affiliate movie marketer Peerflix, blogger Eric D. Snider stopped receiving the until-then-regular checks. Which happened around the exact same time that we got a tip — in late August — that LiveUniverse didn't have enough…
TubeMogul, a startup which allows content creators to post video clips to multiple sites at once and track aggregate views for the clip across sites, did a survey of over 200,000 clips and how much traffic they garnered after 90 days. The results? The average clip got more views on YouTube in three months (3,092)…
Brad Greenspan swears he was the guy who actually created MySpace. Chris DeWolfe and everybody's friend Tom Anderson? They stole the idea from him! (After he stole it from Friendster!) Anyway, you'd think that creating the world's second most popular social network would lend Greenspan some street cred with aspiring…
Last we heard, Revver, the YouTube wannabe which promised a cut of revenues to video creators, was on the ropes. LiveUniverse, the Internet vehicle of former MySpace boss Brad Greenspan, had walked away from a deal, reports had it. That left Revver grasping for a lifeline and willing to sell itself for as little as…
The company that was supposed to replace YouTube is now for sale for $300-500k and the assumption of $1 million in debt. Revver promised big bucks to video creators who used the video sharing service. That money was supposed to come from lucrative video ads; that money apparently never came. The story of Revver's…
The policy just confirms what we always suspected was Google's attitude: Users are losers, and we know best. The Google-owned video site claims that channel partners who regularly produce videos with more than a million pageviews can earn "several thousand dollars per month," but those are few and far between. The…
As reported a couple of weeks ago, Justine Ezarik, the blonde videoblogger better known as iJustine, has opened her own website, iJustine.tv. Neither of her potential suitors, Justin.tv and Ustream.tv , appear to have won her heart outright. Ezarik's maintaining channels on both lifecasting startups, and also…
Selling ads on videos must be hard. That'd be why Revver, a video hosting service that missed out when Blip.tv monopolized the good web shows and YouTube took the amateurs, is running video ads for a client that no longer exists. While watching my favorite anime parody, I saw this ad for Acceptable.tv, a web-based…
Online video platform Revver announced it has paid out $1 million dollars to video producers from its ad revenue sharing program, just in time for its one year anniversary. That puts Revver's total revenue at around $2-$2.5 million, since it splits fees 50/50 after paying 20% to a distributor. Sounds great. But it…
Steven Starr is out as CEO of beleaguered video-sharing site Revver. [CNET]
Perhaps disturbed by the collective yawn that greeted the beta launch of their video-sharesite Soapbox, Microsoft is manifesting an interest in buying out an established site — such as Revver. The MSN goons were reportedly sniffing around Revver's office last month to see what they could stripe-mine in terms of tech…
Video aggregator site Revver made news principally through their revenue-sharing plan, "acquiring" the Lonleygirl15 franchise, and losing two of three founders. Now, it appears cash flow may be an issue, as irate Revver content creators saw their "first week of the month" payments pushed back to February 7, then…
