many YouTube users are raking in the moolah out of posting videos online and earning money through advertisements. making videos for YouTube for three years a passtime for millions of web suffers is now a way to make a living. one year after YouTube the online video powerhouse invited members to become"partners" and added advertising user are earning six-figure incomes from the web site. for some like Micheal Buckley the self-taught host of a celebrity chatter show filming funny videos is now a full time job. Buckley quit his day job in September after his online profits had greatly surpassed his salary as an administrative assistant for a music promotion company. his thrice a week online show "is silly" he said but it has hooped him escape his credit card debt. but the company has high hopes for the partner program. executives liken it ti google AdSense the technology that revolutionised advertising and made it possible for publishers to place text advertisements next to their content. in a time of media industry lay offs the revenue source and the prospect of a one person media company many be especially appealing to users. but video producers like Lisa Donovan who post sketch comedy onto YouTube and attracted attention in the fall for parodies of gov. Sara palinof Alaska do not make it sound easy. "for new users' it's a lot of work'" ms.Donovan said "every body's fighting to be seen online you have to strategies and market yourself".
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