YouTube Starts Paying Users
YouTube has recently launched a new program to start paying a “select group” of content makers. This brings up several interesting questions, the answers of which could have a large impact on the YouTube experience entirely…
Will this compromise the personality and openness of YouTube videos by creating a distinction between “valuable” and “invaluable” content?
Will featured/selected/sponsored videos get weighed more heavily in YouTube’s search results?
Will featured content hog the spotlight, and make non-featured videos less visible or important?
Will a featured artist be reprimanded if they appropriate (or steal) ideas from a non-featured artist? After all, this has happened before…
Will this bring us closer to bridging the gap between huge television networks and the video uploading public? Can this ever dilute things like famousness and celebrity?
