Can you make money putting videos up on Youtube, Metacafe and Megavideo and other similar sites?

It's not impossible but it is rather difficult, as you need to do some marketing, at least in the beginning, in order to develop a following. Generally, this involves social media engagement, e. g. garnering followers on Twitter and fans on Facebook, and presenting links, etc. to them. Too much presentation of links can be offputting to most people, and I'm afraid there's no magic formula for when it tips over from being not enough to too much. Furthermore, most people need to see something about 7 or so times before they will make a purchase, so that can mean a carpeting type of campaign. They are hard to do right, without sliding into spam territory.

Hello jespah-thank you for responding. Did you see my other threads?:

http://able2know.org/topic/169223-1
http://able2know.org/topic/169108-1

Can you please help me with these?

People can advertise stuff on Youtube, Metacafe, Megavideo and other web viral sites?

The guy who created Annoying Orange has a huge following:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=realannoyingorange

He has t-shirts and merchandise he's advertising for it.

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Someone just told me:

If your channel has enough subscribers you can become a youtube partner and you will get paid for your views. I believe this is the easiest way to make money off of videos online. Most people say you need between 250 - 500 subscribers.