How Much Do Facebook & YouTube Profit From User Generated Content? [Infographic]

User Generated Content (UGC) accounts for a large portion of the profit made my social networks like Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter. But just how much are social networks making off the content that you, as a user, upload? A new infographic from MyCube attempts to figure that out.

Something that a lot of people are unaware of is that when you upload content to your favorite social networks, these networks claim ownership of your content and, thus, reserve the right to monetize it.  That’s right—User Generated Content (UGC) accounts for a large portion of the profit made my social networks like Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter.  But just how much are social networks making off the content that you, as a user, upload?  A new infographic from MyCube attempts to figure that out.

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