Curate YouTube Content To Create New Value and Revenue - CM #28
10+ Ways To Create New Value and Revenue with Existing Videos (with examples)
Hello and welcome to a new issue of Curation Monetized.
I write this newsletter for journalists, creators, subject-matter experts and consultants, interested in understanding how to create value and revenues by curating existing information and resources for a specific audience and need.
In this issue:
Curate YouTube Content To Create New Value and Revenue:
10+ Ways To Create New Value with Existing Videos (with examples)How To Monetize Video Curation:
9 Viable Monetization OptionsCurator’s Toolbox: New Tools for Content Curators
6 new hand-picked tools for journalists, writers, experts and content curators. From insight and analysis to collection and directory building.
In the Premium Edition:
Data-Verified Curation-Based Business Opportunities (3)
Best AI ……. Generator(s)
Best …… …….. Systems
Examples for ……..
Real-World Examples of Curation Monetized (3)
Catalog of Niche ……. Influencers
Comparative Table of …… Prices on …….
Curated Catalog of ……. ……..
Curating YouTube Content To Create New Value and Revenue
YouTube hosts immense content, with over 1 billion videos uploaded.
Almost all this content can be legally re-used and monetized as long as viewers can clearly see a difference between the original video and the result of your curation.
If you can, remix, edit, transform, comment, juxtapose or collect videos produced and published by others into new valuable content, then you can gain visibility, authority and trust by using strategies and tactics that are very different from the ones of your competitors.
And being different (while providing tangible value) equals being more easily recognized and appreciated by others.
Considering also the fact that producing original quality video content is much more challenging than people normally think, learning to generate value by curating video is already a slow growing trend that is only going to expand in the future.
To help you see in sharper detail what appears to me as a useful and valuable direction to explore, I am listing here 10+ practical ways to create value (and potential revenue) while reusing existing video content.
Reaction Videos (personal commentary of an existing video)
Record your live reactions or those of a specific audience demographic to certain videos, explaining your thought process or emotions as they happen. You have probably already seen one such video, gaining in popularity by the day, where a Youtuber stops and plays an existing video while providing commentary, insight and analysis. Thus you can further the online conversation in your topic of choice by simply taking the viewpoint of some other expert and providing your critical counterpoints to it.
Examples:Experts’ Opinions
Combine the best insights and opinions from several experts and then extract and edit their key points and your commentary into one seamless video or into a playlist.Supercuts
Edit footage from many different sources focussing on recurring elements (e.g., specific phrases, actions, tropes, or visual motifs), emphasizing repetition or patterns. The goal is to emphasize repetition for humor / critique or to showcase a recurring feature or detail in a compelling way.
Thematic Compilations
Combine clips from various sources around a specific theme or topic, adding commentary or narration to provide context and insights. The focus is on showcasing a variety of content within your selected topic. The goal is to entertain, inform, or highlight diverse examples under a specific theme (e.g.: The best videos showing x, Examples of z, etc.).N.B.: Compilations can be curated both by editing videos from different sources into one new video as well as by collecting a set of videos into a playlist.
The Perfect Study Soundtrack: Music for Midterms - compilation of 87 videos from different authors.
Music Curation playlist (6 videos)
How to make money by curating other people’s music
In-depth analysis (Forensic)
Zero-in, dissect and analyze in great detail an existing video to highlight elements and issues that are not otherwise immediately evident. Leverage graphics, animation, slow-motion, and zooming to little details to carry your point across.
Learning Paths
Create a video playlist, authored by many different qualified experts, that can be used to learn a specific topic.Examples:
Ri-Edit - Mashup - Remix
Edit in a different way an existing scene, clip or video, in such a way that while the content is essentially the same, the new editing presents a starkly different picture / impression from the original one. Add original commentary and spray with non-obvious insights.
2014 Danthology - by Daniel Kim - first minute and twenty-six seconds of a longer remix of the top songs for 2014. Notice how 68 different songs can be made into one harmonious new piece.
Pogo - Famous movies scenes and soundtracks remixed into new songs.
Must-watch masterpiece. Micah Parsons '11 From Heaven' feat. Skip Bayless by DJ Steve Porter - Sportsremixes
Other Ideas for Creating Value by Re-Using Existing Videos
Confront and Compare
Bring together and juxtapose different viewpoints, opposing opinions, side-by-side and face-to-face takes on specific topics as to highlight starkly different perspectives.
Examples or Opinions’ Roundup
Use clips from multiple expert videos to build a comprehensive guide on a specific subject, weaving them together with your narration to provide a clear and detailed explanation. Extract and distill the key advice for each source and edit it together into one video, possibly alternating strategically the opinions presented.Example:
Highlight - Curate
Create videos in which you present a topic while utilizing many contributions from other experts’ videos to get in the detail of what you are explaining. Think of a TV program where a studio anchor connects to various reporters to get the big picture on something except that you don’t use reporters but clips excerpted from already published videos.
Localize - Re-Adapt
Translate, subtitle, or dub videos for specific regions or languages while adding cultural or contextual explanations.
Re-dub
Rewrite the dialogue of a famous movie scene to create a compelling message.
Re-cast
Re-chronicling and commenting a recorded video event by providing a different version from the original. For example with the recording of a live sport event.
Restore and Optimize
Upscale resolution, colorize, improve audio quality, add vetted sub-titles, translations or voice dubs to existing videos that have none.
Before-and-After
Highlight changes or transformations by editijng together "before" and "after" clips, with commentary explaining what happened in between.
Example:
Retrospectives and Reimaginings
Revisit older videos with a new lens, such as critically analyzing past predictions or outcomes from past events, and adding updated context and commentary.
How To Monetize Video Curation
9 Viable Monetization Options
To monetize any of the above listed video curation approaches there are many different business models that can be used.
1) YouTube Partner Program
Curated videos can be monetized on YouTube through advertising, just like normal videos. You just have to be careful in not re-using videos from others as they are, with no additions or modifications. Use anyone of the curation approaches suggested above and you should be just fine.
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2) Sponsorships
If you get good at doing this and build a growing following with time, you become an interesting sponsorship destinations from brands and products that cater to your same audience. Such sponsorships can be integrated in your content in different ways (inside the opening or closing titles, with a message in the video and/or in the description, etc.)
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3) Paid Subscriptions
If you become very good at curating video, you could leverage platforms like Substack to create a paid Premium subscription offering that gives your audience access to more of what you can curate so well. Be it additional clips, access to the archive, or bundles of your greatest clips that can be also downloaded, could offer enough of an incentive for your warmest fans to sign up to it.
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4) Download
On the same wavelength you could offer a physical purchase option, by using USB keys or DVDs or both, while packaging it in a way that would make it as a unique gift for special occasions.
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5) Teach How You Do It
Create and sell video courses that explain in detail the process you use to find and curate video content successfully.
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6) Curate Video for Third-Parties
Offer your expertise to curate videos for companies and authors that want to adopt a similar approach.
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7) Productize Video Curation
Create an AI-assisted app that helps brands and indie authors create new value by tapping into their existing video archives.
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8) Create “Visual Essays
Curate video clips into cohesive “visual essays” that explore a niche topic in-depth, then sell access to these as standalone digital products or bundled courses.
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9) Create Learning Paths
Curate high-quality learning paths for both subject-matter experts, authors and learning platforms to better promote and market their paid offerings.
New Tools for Content Curators
Six interesting tools for journalists, researchers, librarians, content curators, subject matter experts, coaches and consultants who need to search, vet, organize and present existing resources and info while adding new value and perspective to them.
Curate your own audio and video email digest by picking and selecting the Youtube channels and podcasts that you want to follow. Alternatively browse through an extended list of ready-made topical digests. That is: if you are interested in a specific topic, Digestly helps you stay on top of it by making it easy to receive daily, via email, all of the updates from the most interesting voices in that space. Digests can be public or private and contain detailed time-stamped indexes of any Youtube video or audio podcast included.
Paid $5/mo or $40/year
Powerful tool within Google’s Journalist Studio augments any large document set analysis process. Allows you to create public (or private) searchable collections of documents, PDFs, audio clips, emails, images, slides, spreadsheets, web pages and videos. Pinpoint can rapidly uncover patterns and relationships within large amounts and to transform them into actionable insights. It uses Google's advanced search, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning capabilities to identify key entities, connections, and themes within the data. Automatically generates searchable text from audio or video files. Ideal for investigative and analytical professionals. Learn more about Pinpoint.
100% Free
MakeaDir
No-code directory builder. SEO optimized. Instantly submits new content you publish to Google index. AI-assisted programmatic SEO. Fully customizable records, fields, tags and attributes.
Free version with storage 100MB, max visitors/month 5K, custom subdomain. Pro version starts at $9/mo.
Omeka
Web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits. Leverages Dublin Core metadata protocol and standards.
Examples at: https://info.omeka.net/showcase/
Free plan. Single site / limited themes & features/plugins. Paid from $35/year.
Create personal searchable knowledge library by leveraging all of your notes, photos, videos, links, emails, and documents. Organize and interrogate everything you save inside Beloga. Train AI on the stuff you select and then ask AI for answers either from the library, web, Google scholar or other places.
Free version - 1 workspace - limited searches - GPT-4o-mini - community support - Pro from $30/mo (unlimited workspaces, multiple AI models
DirectoryStack
Boilerplate code stack to build effective monetizable directories. Written in Typescript. Live web demo at www.domainerskit.com.
Paid. $249 one-time.
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In this issue you will find:
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Examples for ……..
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Catalog of Niche ……. Influencers
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