Three earns from user generated video

May 11th, 2006 by hobart65

3G Mobile operator 3 earned over £1.2m in just four months from its See Me TV channel for user generated video content.

It’s seen 4 million downloads and 30,000 submissions.

Submitters are paid each tome a clip is views (1p for standard and 10p for adult!)

The most popular clips include;
* Hot dog boy – the quickest frankfurter eater in town!
* Pretzel girl – a real-life office contortionist
* The World’s first wedding proposal over video mobile – customer proposed to his girl friend on Valentine’s day (Dating Game)
* Tornado chaos – footage of the aftermath of the tornado that hit Birmingham (24 Hours)

They are planning to roll out the service to news, making their subscribers citizen journalists

Welcome to 3

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