I’m always interested in new revenue steams for my blogs. I’ve often wished I could get paid for sharing video content - there are a few videos I’ve put up on YouTube that have received thousands of views - wouldn’t it be nice to be making money each time someone watched one of those videos? It’s not an option on YouTube, but it IS an option on your very own blog, with a new site called The News Room. CPM start at $1 - that means for every thousand views of a news story, you get paid. You earn more money when someone takes that content from your site and puts it on their own site. $1 per 1,000 views may not sound like much, but many stories pay much more, and the work is practically effortless. After all, I already turn to sites featuring tech news to be inspired to blog, and now I can easily add video content to those blog entries. Here’s a story I “mashed” from The News Room to accompany this blog entry - all I did was scroll through the categories and subcategories, find a new story I liked, select the layout (allowing you to personalize your video content) and then I copied the code I was given. Et voila, we have a news story about Google buying Feedburner:

Pretty easy - I provide great content to my readers, but I still get to add my own spin on things via the blog article that goes with the news. Oh - I should add that in addition to getting paid for placing content, you can also earn prizes! Neat, huh?

Here’s an example of one of their news stories via video: