How much is your content worth?

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June 28, 2011
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User Generated Content

How much is your content worth?

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Social Networking has become more popular than ever with millions of people using social networks everyday such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and LinkedIn. These social networks do not produce any original content and what really drives traffic to them is the content created by their users. So who owns this content anyway? The user? No.

In most cases, the content you upload on a social network is owned by the network and not by the user. Not only do they own this content, but also have the right to monetize it. A quick look at this Social Media Infograph will give you an idea of how much social networks are earning from user generated content that is uploaded on their site.

How much is your User Generated Content worth?

Imagine instead of uploading your content on these social networks, you actually owned your own content and tried to monetize it. Now that would be a lot of money to be made there, innit?

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  • VintageZ

    the one problem with the internet is that there is so much of garbage that is posted everyday, that good content often gets lost in the pile of garbage… how can this be avoided?

    • http://digitalanalog.in d-funk

      There really isn’t any particular objective answer to that question. Content gets published everyday on multiple media platforms – be it television, internet, social media, radio, magazine or any other media. While you may think that a particular piece of content is ‘good’, another person may not. So its really subjective whether someone finds something good or not. And that’s the beauty of the internet and social media – it lets users decide what is good for them and what is not!

      • VintageZ

        I agree with you in principle, but in reality there are many stories that go unheard primarily because of the problem of, what I would like to call “content bombardment”.. If in 1 minute 50 articles are uploaded, I would essentially have to read all 50 (which is a mammoth task) to decide whether it is good or not.. so i may read 5 and then get back to work and never really know whether any of the remaining 45 were actually good

        • http://digitalanalog.in d-funk

          So just read the title, or perhaps the first paragraph or something. If it excites you, continue to read further or skip to the next one if it doesn’t. One cannot have all the information one wants. Filtering is always going to be a difficult task.

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