YouTube to Sell Ads on User-Generated Videos
You knew it was going to happen eventually… YouTube [GOOG] would have to follow in the footsteps of other Google properties in using some sort of ad-based revenue model.
It’s coming now: for user-generated/uploaded content, YouTube/Google will somehow ask users whether they would like to allow ads to be applied to their videos, and if yes, then those users would get a bit of the ad revenue.