How to make money off your YouTube videos

Entertainment Media Works, a media firm specializing in product placement, plans to enable "plinking" or product linking, in consumer-generated media. Early plans include revenue shares for content creators. Plinking is the process of adding a product or service link to a visible object or image in a video.

When deployed, it will have an interface for users to upload and tag video. Users will freeze a single frame and define an area where the product is located. It can be any product from an iPod to particular jacket or pair of jeans. Once tagged, the item will be clickable throughout the runtime of the video, and will link to an e-commerce page, writes ClickZ.

Now the icing on the cake: Under EMW's plans, content viewers and user communities will be able to take existing video and add links for a piece of the revenue share.

This could well be the monetization model for content creators.

Will YouTube allow others to plink the videos on its servers without getting a cut?

A nice idea nevertheless as it gives content generators their rightful share.