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4.28.2010

YouTube's Musicians Wanted

YouTube was at the Grammy event hyping their new YouTube: Musicians Wanted program.  Sort of interesting.  What is it?  Well, YouTube is trying to help musicians making money from people watching their videos.  Step 1: Upload a ton of videos.  Step 2: Get a lot of people to love them and watch them.  Step 3: Apply to be a Musicians Wanted participant.  

It kind of helps you take your videos and fans to the next level.  Once you're in the program you can make your channel look cool, and they will help to surround your content with ads from companies that might relate.  Then you get money.  You even get your own pop-up ads on all your videos! (God, I hate those things.  Soooo annoying and NO ONE reads them!)  So yeah, that's new with YT.  There's a good chance I'm over simplifying it.  Not really helpful for me, but probably helpful for other people.  Those with real videos and gigs and stuff.

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