DISQUS

Shawn Collins · 1 year ago

I think he does some funny stuff, and certainly has a following.

That said, he was in the wrong here.

Like everybody else. he didn't read the terms. But he had to know he was using protected material without permission.

He does have a point that they should send notices to their internal mail system, too.

I get false positives in my spam folder all the time.

Alex · 1 year ago

"$5k from 25 million video views?"

No, it says he "received" $5k.
According to this: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answe...
it takes 2 months until you get paid.
So, those $5k must be for the first of three months.
If we divide 25 million video views by 3, we get ~ 8.3 million views.

So, IF he generated 8.3M views in the first month
and Youtube/Google paid him $5k for that,
then it would mean a payout of $0.60 per thousand views.

And according to this:
http://www.webvideoreport.com/case_studies/2007...
"Companies wanting to advertise on YouTube for less can sign up for Google AdWords for as little as a $1 CPM."

IF that is correct, and Youtube generates only $1 per thousand views,
then $0.60 payout is OK.

Aaron · 1 year ago

i kinda like his videos .. but no matter what i think he has made his money from it..

Jon Ray · 1 year ago

Don't dog on Perez. Sure, his videos aren't that great, but how can you not like that guy. He serves up celb gossip on a golden platter and for that, I salute him! I had the pleasure of interviewing him at the SXSW '06 Playboy party and he really is a funny, nice guy with a keen eye for degrading celebrity news.

As for YouTube, the quality of video compression they have will never lend itself to higher quality videos. I think the business folks are flocking to Kyte, Blip and the like.

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Jon, I guess I'm not really dogging Perez. I mean, he does his thing well, but I'm not a fan of celebrity gossip I guess. I think my post was more about my frustration with YouTube, not Perez. I'm sure he's a nice guy.

Blip for business? If you read their terms, it says no professional content. In fact, one group I'm associated with recently had their account suspended for uploading high-quality business videos. I need to post about that. Ridiculous.

Shawn Collins · 1 year ago

Looks like Perez has settled over at Revver - http://www.revver.com/u/PerezHilton/ - and he's being featured on the homepage.

Dogger · 1 year ago

I don't think youtube have any control over the videos posted or removed. It will be very tough for them to check each and every video for copyright issues. And if youtube all copyrighted videos to be uploaded, they will in trouble.

My only complaint against youtube is that, they should have stood against copyrighted videos being uploaded right from the begining.