Thursday, January 3, 2008

Review: Share-A-Flick

Share-A-Flick pays you to post YouTube, MySpace or your own videos. You make money every time someone views one of your video posts. If you have an Adsense account you can make even more money by having Google Adsense ads show on the same page with your videos.

Revenue sharing is from banner ads. Each video view earns $0.0001. Site automatically generates a link for each video you can post on your website, blog or e-mails. The minimum payout is $20 and is through Paypal.

Pros:
  • Quick, easy and free to sign up.
  • Easy to use. Video tutorial will have you posting videos in minutes
  • Millions of MySpace and YouTube videos to choose from.
  • Documentation is sparse, but it appears you get 100 percent of Adsense views.
  • Refer a user and get 10 percent of their page views.
  • Fast. Posting a video and writing a description to go with can be done in under three minutes.
  • Link to your website or blog posted with each video
Cons:
  • Very low traffic site. Most of the videos only average about 10 views.
  • Bare bones site. Launched in January 2007, it does not appear to have been updated since. The contact us link is still under construction.
  • Low payment. If you don't have an Adsense account, Share-A-Flick is a waste of time. It would take 200,000 views to earn your first $20.
  • The same annoying pop-under ad appears every time you access the site. Trying to close it brings up another dialog box.
Tips:
  • The most recent 25 post are listed when users go to the viewing area. Post a couple of times a day to keep at least one of your videos visible on the main page.
  • Write a full description with lots keywords in the description box. This might increase the likelihood of the search engines indexing your posts.

Conclusion:
If a video clip is relevant to your website or blog then there is absolutely no reason to put it on Share-A-Flick and then link to it. However, there are millions of videos that might not be a good fit for your site but could still draw lots of users. Putting them on Share-A-Flick instead might generate some additional revenue. Overall though, If you are looking for a way to generate money with YouTube videos I'd recommend investing your time in Flixya.com, a much more developed and trafficked video sharing site.

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