Guy Kicked in Head by Train Engineer could make up to $250,000 or more from Youtube Video and Licens
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[QUOTE=BrickInHead;44620849]i find that highly unlikely because they'd open themselves up to a serious countersuit[/QUOTE]
Well pretending that the laws there are even vaguely similar to the ones here in the US, the guy who got kicked in the head was trespassing so.... Yeah anything goes.
So lemme get this straight: dumbass gets kicked in the head by a passing train because he was trying to take a self-portrait, and because that was incredibly stupid, people want to pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars to license his video.
Why are we encouraging idiocy? And what could you even use this video for?
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;44621856]So lemme get this straight: dumbass gets kicked in the head by a passing train because he was trying to take a self-portrait, and because that was incredibly stupid, people want to pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars to license his video.
Why are we encouraging idiocy? And what could you even use this video for?[/QUOTE]
it gets a lot of views so advertising
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;44620453]From the people who brought you "not reading the article" and "not reading the first post" comes: "Not even reading the entire fucking title"[/QUOTE]
maybe that should be a thing now - all thread titles in SH should be blacked out until you make a post in the thread that sounds sufficiently outraged by whatever you think the topic might be
i think the fact that something happened in regina is more of a shocking news story
[QUOTE=Untouch;44622404]i think the fact that something happened in regina is more of a shocking news story[/QUOTE]
Nothing happened [I]in[/I] Regina, the guy is from Regina. The actual video was taken in Peru
Isn't that a kick in the head...
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For the conductor, I mean. That must suck for him. You save some kid from dying because he was being a dumbass, then the KID gets fucking rich because of your actions, and his own stupidity.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;44620318]That's really quite incredible. im glad hes putting it toward a good use, instead of buying fancy cars and wasting it all.[/QUOTE]
If my hobby is cars, would buying cars be a waste? I don't think so. This guy is interested in film, and he'll use the money towards that. I don't think someone who in interested in cars, and uses money towards that, deserves scorn...
[QUOTE=Death_God;44620365]im pretty sure that wasnt a protrusion
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Zzor18K.gif[/img]
hell i dont even know why people keep debating over "if there was metal that would kill him" who gives a shit[/QUOTE]
Kicked so hard his hair nearly fell off.
i too would kick him
After seeing the video in question, and seeing that he wants to go to film school, I'm expecting his next video to be something like a football hitting someone's groin.
He was offered a network partnership.
Big fucking woop.
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40% of the money goes to YouTube and the network, ~35% goes away because of Adblock and people skipping ads.
Considering he didn't partner until now, he's not getting anywhere near 250,000. That's an optimistic estimate assuming 100% of the profits went to him, and no adblock/adskipping was done, and assuming he had the video monetized from the start.
How the fuck is this news.
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;44627282]He was offered a network partnership.
Big fucking woop.
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40% of the money goes to YouTube and the network, ~35% goes away because of Adblock and people skipping ads.
Considering he didn't partner until now, he's not getting anywhere near 250,000. That's an optimistic estimate assuming 100% of the profits went to him, and no adblock/adskipping was done, and assuming he had the video monetized from the start.
How the fuck is this news.[/QUOTE]
uh a guy is getting lots of money for getting kicked in the head.
Seems like a more interesting read than a lot of other stuff that gets posted.
[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;44627535]uh a guy is getting lots of money for getting kicked in the head.
Seems like a more interesting read than a lot of other stuff that gets posted.[/QUOTE]
but he literally isn't
he got offered a fucking network partnership
partnerships are handed out like goddamn candy these days, this isn't anything remotely interesting, not to mention he's NOT going to get 250,000 dollars - it's a THEORETICAL number of how much he COULD have earned, if he got 100% of the profit and nobody used adblock or skipped ads AND the number ASSUMES he's had monetization settings on from day 1, which he hasn't.
He does NOT earn money from the previous views, as he did not have ads on the video at that time.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;44620801]If this happened in the USA, the Conductor would be taking legal action to try and get in on the profits[/QUOTE]
The judge will probably throw it out as pointless.
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;44627282]He was offered a network partnership.
Big fucking woop.
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40% of the money goes to YouTube and the network, ~35% goes away because of Adblock and people skipping ads.
Considering he didn't partner until now, he's not getting anywhere near 250,000. That's an optimistic estimate assuming 100% of the profits went to him, and no adblock/adskipping was done, and assuming he had the video monetized from the start.
How the fuck is this news.[/QUOTE]
Couple things, first of all, that 40% isn't the same across all networks, they can set it to whatever they want, and the CPMs listed in the article ($2-$16) are after Google takes their 45% cut from the total CPM. But you are right, he won't be getting nearly the full amount because CPM values depend on a million and a half different factors from demographics to content, but the most important factor is how regularly you upload and with one video it will be pretty low. Lastly, he won't ONLY get the money from after he partnered, Google has a system in place to compensate people whose videos go viral before they monetize them, as long as they monetize them eventually.
[QUOTE=Memobot;44627250]I'm expecting his next video to be something like a football hitting someone's groin.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;WUTVmuqviqE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUTVmuqviqE[/video]
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[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;44627752]Couple things, first of all, that 40% isn't the same across all networks, they can set it to whatever they want, and the CPMs listed in the article ($2-$16) are after Google takes their 45% cut from the total CPM. But you are right, he won't be getting nearly the full amount because CPM values depend on a million and a half different factors from demographics to content, but the most important factor is how regularly you upload and with one video it will be pretty low. Lastly, he won't ONLY get the money from after he partnered, Google has a system in place to compensate people whose videos go viral before they monetize them, as long as they monetize them eventually.[/QUOTE]
40 is the general average cut that the network/Youtube takes anyway, so that's what I went by.
The system for post-viral videos is news to me, though. Source?
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;44627953]40 is the general average cut that the network/Youtube takes anyway, so that's what I went by.
The system for post-viral videos is news to me, though. Source?[/QUOTE]
The article says they're taking 30%. And the Youtube partnership FAQ has a section describing viral videos, it says that the best solution is just to partner up sooner, but if you do happen to partner up after the video goes viral, there will be "bonus payments." Not exactly sure how much those are but it's something additional.
meanwhile millions of people worldwide are starving to death or homeless, every day of their life awful
maybe they should put it on YouTube, see if they can cash in too
Change thred title to "Idiot who had his life saved by a train drivers foot could get rich off of being an idiot."
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;44628798]meanwhile millions of people worldwide are starving to death or homeless, every day of their life awful
maybe they should put it on YouTube, see if they can cash in too[/QUOTE]
I can just imagine IJustine and "lol so random girls" on the ground reporting on African famines.
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