Youtube to introduce ad revenue sharing

Video blogs will soon be able to add another revenue source to their websites by uploading their videos to youtube and earning a share of the money that youtube generates from it. It remains to be seen how this revenue sharing will be implemented but I suppose it will be similar to Google Adsense using keywords and geo targets to calculate revenue for the video.

Ads will most likely be delivered right before the original video starts which will surely drive at least some users away from youtube to other sites that do not show advertisement before the videos. It is hard to predict how much revenue a successful video would be able to generate, guess it will be most likely a per impression payment instead.