"SALSA KING: Evan Margolin's homemade online dance videos are pulling in $20,000 a month in subscription fees - just four months after they went on sale.  Read "Jane Fonda Meets the web"

The recently settled Hollywood Writer's Strike proves the growing profitability of the Internet, as detailed in the video "Why We Fight": 

From the Writer's strike, more perspective on the growing revenue from Internet programming:

"The future of Web 2.0 belongs to sites that give its users directions and goals as well as total control. People need a common focus, a shared obsession, to be productive as a crowd. (My favorite recent example: the Lostpedia, a Wikipedia-like site created by fans of the ABC series Lost who are all trying to figure out what the heck is going on, and sharing their notes)."

"After winning notice for being one of the top contributors to Reddit, on which submissions gain or lose "karma" points depending on the votes of visitors, Fedquip was poached by Netscape. Once an important Web browser, the AOL-owned Netscape has since been recast as a social networking site.  Fedquip is paid $1,000 (U.S.) a month to submit links."

"Clever entrepreneurs are using the Internet to build a healthy customer base - before they even have the ability to deliver what they're selling.

THE ANGLE: Line up your customers first, then create a business around them.

1. Identify an overlooked need for services kicked up by, for instance, relatively obscure regulatory changes.

2. Construct a first-rate website with a generic domain name that will draw in prospective customers.

3. With clients in hand, create the business, providing the service yourself or subcontracting to established players."

Create a website based on a certain niche or industry. Search Google Video, using your subject's keywords to find related videos that you can embed on your website. Read the article.

"Online video downloads have a greater chance of success if they're ad-supported rather than paid, according to a new report by Points North Group."  Read More...