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March 25, 2015

Are you willing to pay for video clips online?

  • A new service called Vessel wants to change the way that short videos make money on the Internet.
    • By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
    AP Technology Writer

    SAN FRANCISCO — Would you pay to see some of the Internet's best video clips first? Vessel, a new service trying to change the way that short video pieces make money on the Internet and mobile devices, is betting on it.

    Instead of free-for-all distribution supported solely by advertising, Vessel will charge $3 per month for exclusive early access to clips of musicians, sporting events, comedians and many other forms of entertainment not available on YouTube or any other digital video service for at least three days.


     
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