Video curation question (violates tos?)...

think you need to get proper legal advice for this - we can only give opinions.

The question I have is why you would charge people to have their site featured, when it is already featured on YouTube, which probably gets more traffic than your site? Personally I'd be looking for different ways to make money, or adding some benefit it the video owner did pay, other than jut showing the video...

Any other thoughts on this?

-- TW

If the videos are curated, how is it still the original creator's work??

Maybe you could explain more what you want to do....


YT ToS specifically forbid monetizing videos directly but your idea isn't that exactly so it might be okay.

You could charge people to make a post and in the post, they can embed a youtube video if they want.

In any case, YouTube isn't going to notice or cause problems unless someone complains or you get so much traffic and money that you show up on their "abuse" radar.

Usually, you would pay licensing rights to post someone else's video on your site.

YT has a "share" license that users agree to allowing others to embed videos from YouTube without licensing fees.

My question is, why would anyone pay you when there are sites thay can post for free that are more well known, get more traffic and actively promote submitted videos.

Why would I pay to post to your site when YouTube is free, is a well known and highly trafficed source and gets much Google love.

Why pay you when I can use PixelPipe for free to blast my video across many, many different video hosting sites.

And why would I pay only for a YouTube embed?

If I pay you to host my video, then I want it actually hosted so when my YT account gets banned I still have the video on your site that I paid for.

What benefit do people get from paying you to embed their video?

Just curious about your business model.