On sites like Cracked or Boardgamegeek there are links to videos that are being hosted on YouTube. (Examples are here and here.)
Do the websites get revenue for linking to YouTube? It you click on the linked video and then click on the YouTube icon so you’re watching it directly from YouTube does it affect the revenue (if any)? Does this have an effect of the revenue of the person who posted the video to YouTube? Does it have an effect if you stop the video halfway through?
If you watch an ad, they get ad revenue. They don’t get revenue if you use an adblocker or if you skip an ad (some ads have a skip after 5 seconds option). If you stop the video halfway through, well, you’ve already watched the ad. However, you would negatively affect the part of their score as a channel that assesses how many people abandon a video partway through.
The website that links to YouTube gets ad revenue? Or just the person who uploaded the video?
It looks to me like in the Cracked example, at least, they’re simply embedding the youtube video, so I would expect if the channel has monetized that video, they’d get the revenue, but not the embedder.
So it’s not like I’m screwing the website out of any money by switching to YouTube to watch the video?
No.
I’m pretty sure sites like Cracked do this to limit legal liability. Otherwise, why not upload them to their own YouTube account or even host the videos themselves? It would mean that all videos on older articles would continue to work, and they’d never run into that problem where a popular article loses its video and they have to update it.
The downside is that they get no revenue from said videos. But, from a legal liability perspective, that’s also an upside.
I’m certain its legal liability. Cracked has no legal right to take a video that somebody else owns and has a copyright to and repost it.
I don’t know, but sometimes I open an embedded video and I get the white-on-black error message that looks like the typical “Removed due to a copyright claim by Time Warner.” Except it’s not this, it says that they want me to watch it on Youtube, not embedded, click here to open. I don’t know why they ask this but I assume it gets them better ad revenue results?
YouTube has an option for authors to disallow embedding of their videos. (Usually producers will do this because they don’t want other sites showing the producer’s videos with the other site’s ads right next to it.)
Sometimes this option gets turned on after someone else has embedded a video, causing the message in question.
Correct - if you embed someone else’s video, the video owner gets the ad revenue from any ads that appear within the video frame.
The site owner embedding the video might show ads alongside it on the page, and get revenue from those.