Commission Videos

Posted by Paul B | September 22, 2008 .

This is another very exciting potential revenue source for bloggers, have you ever heard of Commission Videos? Me either until last Saturday!

Commission Videos is a competitor to Google’s “Adsense in YouTube” style adverts, the difference being that instead of home movie style video that is the norm on YouTube they are offering video from top quality legitimate sources, no legal worries. Video source comes directly from respected partners such as the Associated Press and MTV for example. Commission Videos then marries this video source to some advertising and puts it in a widget of various sizes that you can embed in your blog or website.

So you’re probably thinking what is so revolutionary about this? Besides the whole “legal” thing (that matters to me) there is also the eCPM. They pay a huge $7 eCPM! So that’s $7 for every 1000 manual (your visitor presses play) video play backs. If you set the video to play automatically that rate drops to $0.50. That’s still not too shabby in my books.

Where Would I Use It?
I’ve got one class of visitor in particular in mind for this. Social bookmarking. In my experience people who arrive via Stumble, Digg etc ignore adverts. However, they’re a sucker for a bit of video in a post. A nice related news video in your controversial stumble worthy post and it’s going to be some quick dollars.

Social Sharing: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.