Money from Youtube!

YouTube revealed a new means of becoming a part of the partnership program introduced last week that allows users to earn money with their uploaded clips. At that time, the online video sharing service selected only a few uploaders and included them into the program to participate into the revenue sharing campaign. "Now some of your favorite YouTube members, including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary, will begin to participate in the same revenue sharing and promotional opportunities that are available to YouTube's other partners. These include thousands of mid-sized to large content creators who range from video game companies to universities to production houses," YouTube sustained at that time.

Today, the search giant introduced a special form that helps users register for the program and obtain at least a chance to be selected for the revenue sharing campaign. However, the form is not currently available, YouTube returning quite a weird error: "We are currently performing site maintenance. Be cool - we'll be back 100% in a bit."

Anyway, the partner program is available on this link and it's described as "a trial program that we've created to recognize and reward the creativity of the YouTube community. A select group of YouTube members has been invited to participate in this revenue-sharing program and to help us evaluate whether it works for the YouTube community and advertisers."

In the recent period, YouTube was quite attracted by the partnerships with its users because they are the most active uploaders on the online video sharing service. As you might know, YouTube wants more and more user generated content because this type of clips is able to boost the number of the visitors. In the past, YouTube hosted even a special event to celebrate the homepage content, the 2006 YouTube Awards being an exciting contest that attracted the media's attention.