Pixsy: Make Money with Your Embedded Videos

While there are many search engines that offer free video clips for embedding on your site, it can be difficult to monetize these. Along comes Pixsy to the rescue.

Pixsy, a company that specializes in licensing its image and video search platform to other businesses, has launched a new product called “Premium Feed” that will allow you to embed clips onto your websites that can be easily monetized.

Using Pixsy’s Premium Feed, you can search through video content that already has ads embedded (either as pre-rolls or overlays). Whenever you embed these clips onto your websites, you will get a share of the revenues (the actual percentage varies depending on the publisher). All publishers looking to participate in the program have to go through Pixsy’s approval process, but CEO Chase Norlin says it takes as little as a week for new publishers to qualify.

Norlin says that the Pixsy catalog now includes over 2 million clips in its Premium Feed, about half of which come from user generated content. To monetize this user generated content, Pixsy has partnered with a third-party company to perform image and audio transcription which can then be used to embed relevant AdSense Ads. The remaining portion of the Premium Feed comes from ‘professionally generated video’ - content providers who have already included advertising in their clips and are looking for a means to syndicate them.

At launch Pixsy’s Premium Feed partners include Cooliris, a 3D-media browser plugin, as well as Ego TV.