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Popular YouTube Videos Are Cash Cows For Uploaders

from National Public Radio
November 14, 2011

Several years ago a man uploaded a clip of his son getting his finger chomped on by his baby brother. The upload became a YouTube sensation. Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that dad has made more than $150,000 from that video. YouTube makes deals with people whose videos could become hits, and offers them some of the revenues from ads it places on the video's page.

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  • Morning Edition, November 14, 2011
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