Press release -
ViewsHound crowdpublishing site launches revenue sharing
In addition to paying daily cash prizes, pioneering crowdpublishing site ViewsHound has now launched revenue sharing with contributors, on top of paying daily cash prizes. Users will get a 50% share of revenue for advertising run alongside their articles, photographs and cartoons.
Since its launch May 2nd, ViewsHound has already published over 400 articles from more than 500 registered users, attracted by having their work published and marketed on their behalf, and the hope of winning one of the daily cash prizes. “Add to that a fair payment system, where good content yields higher ad revenues, and you’ve got an industry leading set-up for all parties” says Ian Howlett, Publisha’s founder and Editor in Chief. He continues “Viewing figures are good, with over 11,000 unique visitors since launch, so whilst it’s still early days, we should see good growth in ad revenues”.
Whilst other websites have a complex matrix for paying contributors, the ViewsHound system has deliberately been kept as simple and transparent as possible. Users just create a Google AdSense account, enter their account ID into ViewsHound and AdSense handles the rest, including tracking and payments.
ViewsHound’s own share of the advertising revenue will be invested in marketing, editorial, running the technical side of the website and continuing to build a viable business.
For more information, please see read about Revenue Sharing on ViewsHound's website.
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Topics
- Art, Culture, Entertainment
Categories
- launch
- crowdsourcing
- citizen journalism
- online journalism
- paid content
- revenue sharing
- daily cash prizes
- crowdpublishing site
- share of revenue
Regions
- England
ViewsHound is revolutionizing the way news-sites operate by crowdsourcing all of their content from writers around the world. Copy-editing, marketing and monetization are also farmed out to the crowd in a collaborative business model called Crowdpublishing. This makes costs variable and avoids the fixed costs that are killing newspapers and magazines. Contributors are rewarded by a daily prize pool and revenue share. For the reader the allure lies in being able to read potentially thousands of great authors from around the world rather than the same tired 20 or so found on a normal news-site.
