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NEW YORK YouTube rival Revver upped its challenge to the video-sharing giant’s economic model, offering creators another avenue to make money off their clips: text-messaging fees.
Revver and BSkyB have inked a deal for Revver’s videos to populate a user-generated channel on the service, called Fame TV. Users in the United Kingdom will vote for their favorite videos via text messaging. Those clips will go into more frequent rotation, and one-quarter of the fees garnered from carriers for each vote will go to the video creator.
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