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August 23, 2006 by Dane Carlson | 1 Comment

CNN Money:

Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, the people behind the popular viral video called the “Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments,� have earned more than $28,000 from ad spots at the end of the video, according to Revver, an online video site that hosts the clip for Grobe and Voltz. The video can also be found on Grobe’s and Voltz’s own site, Eepybird.com, as well as many other video sites.

This isn’t the first time that online video creators have made it big thanks to a video that spread like wildfire on the Web.

JibJab, the animation company that produced the insanely popular “This Land Is Your Land� cartoon in 2004 that satirized the presidential election, wound up inking a deal with Yahoo! later in 2004 to distribute other animated shorts.

But among the upstart video sites, privately held Revver claims to be the only one that allows creators to make money after submitting their videos. Revver inserts a static one-frame ad at the end of the video that links to the advertiser’s page.

via Work at Home Chuck.

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