Web 2.0 and social networking rapidly changes us and our ways of communication. Social networks and other community sites provide various interests for visitors. They can find intellectually or emotionally satisfaction or both. But visitors often need strong encouragement to join and become active users or members of site. If community offer a revenue model than visitors have the reasonable financial interest in signing in. In this new, user oriented communities, users have an incredible opportunity to create content and generate revenue share. Contextual ads like Adsense revolutionize advertising in way that change social networking user to distribution channel for ads.
Nowadays so many community sites are springing up all over the net so revenue sharing as a bussines model could be an advantage over community sites. It is fact, that some users are better skilled in revenue generation but there is a large number who aren't, but they are very good in content creation, so they can still successfuly cooperate in revenue sharing process.
Some communities which shares revenue:
Yuwie
Fast growing social network, you can be paid there just for hanging on (read blogs, watch other members profiles, photos, give comments and messages, etc..) and invite friends. It's a typical MLM network where you're paid 10 levels in depth. Yuwie pays based on monthly RSR (Revenue Sharing Rate) which vary depends on advertisers.
Lazzeo
Lazzeo is new social network, you're paid there from advertising on site in two ways: 85% of all advertising on Lazzeo is shared among members and the other possibility is that you can put your own ads at your profile. Users ussualy put there Adsense ads, so they are paid directly to adsense account. Also, there's paid membership - VIP or GOLD.
APSense
APSense advertises itself as a first business social network where you're paid for promoting your business. There's a lot of tools to promote your business. If you want, they offer you a paid membership with some other possibilities.
Kanggie
Kanggie is a social networking site which provides users internet trading platform and acces to unlimited internet marketing resources. Kanggie is a site where people can freely trade products and services while learning more about internet marketing.
RFN Global
Rotatrix Global Friendship Network is the first which comprises all of the best features of other Online Communities, while at the same time helping to service the needs of Internet Marketers, Business Owners and Non-Profit organizations all over the world. You have various ways for revenue share there, from traffic exchange to ad rotating an paid membership.
Generally, in revenue sharing community sites everybody wins. Site owners and active members who create and share content. However, you must have in mind that communities and social networks are very dynamic places and they have variety stages of growth. If community lose key members or if the copyright issues are not very clearly defined (esspecially for blogging, photo and videosharing) then the site could be very quick in a grey zone of legality - from companies which offer advertising revenue (ussually Google AdSense) and content owners who have copyrights.
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Contributor's Note
In revenue sharing community sites everybody wins.
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