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Why Video Advertising does not pay the Bandwidth Bill?

Video advertising is one of the most popular and effective ways to reach consumers on the internet. Due in part to the popularity of video sharing sites, instructional and promotional videos that may reach thousands or even millions of potential customers can be posted for free.

But videos can be expensive to produce and the bandwidth bill is still quite high. Therefore, it is important that companies actually get paid for the videos they produce. For instance, YouTube is currently the number one video sharing site on the planet. The site is also free, which means that anyone can post anything, which is part of the problem.

The truth is that when you post a video on a huge video sharing site like YouTube, it may get lost in the shuffle and receive only a few hundred or a few thousand hits. Now, that will not help you pay for the production costs of the initial video, which means that you will likely lose money on the project.

However, there is a simple solution and that is video sites that actually pay for content. These sites focus more on revenue and quality by actually having some discretion over the clips they accept. And even though most of us love or at least respect democracy, the fact is that YouTube has been an unmitigated failure when it comes to advertising dollars. In the end, no one wants to sponsor clips of inarticulate people talking into their cameras at three o'clock in the morning.

The solution to this problem is video sharing sites that actually demand and pay for superior content. These sites often offer a nice stipend for videos that are accepted and they all but guarantee higher exposure rates than some of the more popular sites. The reason for this is simple: they have a limited number of videos and they promote them vigorously, unlike other sites where success is often only a happy accident.