Baauer and his 1 million million Harlem Shake income

.: Hahaha. Well the exact figure remained in secrecy and history, Baauer (Harry Rodrigues) has a clever way making money online.

First, he made a single.

INDMUSIC tumblr.

Second, he partners with INDMUSIC - claimed as the Youtube's Largest Music Network in order to monetizes his music.

Third, that company shares some percentage of the revenue gained as other Youtube uploaders uses Baauer's single in their video.

Give permission to others using one's work, and get money from it. Kaching!

It's maybe a good way to decrease the Youtube video without audio problem (or piracy), or user being deleted because they're using original content without permission from the author. Reflecting this move in another view - we may giving others to spam Youtube with multiple similar video? :-?

But in the end only the real author gets the money...

Negative assumptions aside, I don't like Harlem Shake videos - because it's not viewer friendly. I don't take as being 'wacky' and 'out of control' is about di*k, fu*k, blahblahblah. You can do other things to express your wacki-ness and out of control-ness.

And the idea of 'before and after' video is quite old, but this time it works out pretty cash-shyyy~~ :-P

Reading point :-

• Business.time.com : How this before and after video concept work.
• Guardion.co.uk : This is where Baauer says he get his 1 billion...
• Billboard.com : INDMUSIC and ContentID and Baauer.

aiemm : "Vlog network that monetize IM videos anyone?"
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