How Do You Monetize User Generated Content?

[mandy]

It seems clear enough that the phenomenon of user-generated content (UGC) on the Internet has built enough momentum that it can no longer be thought of as a fad.

Yet the matter of how to make money from the galaxy of blogs, images and videos that people create and share in online communities is far from resolved.

And it grows all the more urgent to find an answer, as ever-larger mountains of venture capital are poured into startups built around the social and self-authoring features now widespread on the Web.

Not surprisingly, hearing entrepreneurs, investors and marketers grope for an answer to "What's your business model?" many industry watchers are beginning to wonder whether the giddy wellspring of UGC plays is setting up the tech world for another spectacular collapse...

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