Your home videos posted on YouTube, if funny enough, could be making your family some major dough. The 2007 YouTube sensation “Charlie Bit Me” — which was filmed for the boy’s American godfather – not only racked up more than 386 million views but it earned £100,000 ($158,560) in ad revenue.
But the video of the lovable biter Charlie Davies-Carr isn’t the only one making it big. According to Daily Mail, YouTube says there are hundreds of families making six-figures off of their home-grown video creations:
The film, and other videos [the boys' father Howard] Davies-Carr has uploaded, have earned the family more than £100,000 through a ‘partnership’ with the website. The company monitors all uploads and if it believes a video will go viral, it contacts the person who posted it.
Revenue from ads placed around the clip is then shared between the site and the film’s creator.
Mr Davies-Carr, 42, and his wife Shelley plan to put the money towards school fees for their children.
Watch this ITN News report for more on the Internet revenue phenomenon some families are experiencing:
Some other YouTube classics you might remember include “David After Dentist” (more than 100 million views) and “Lily’s Disneyland Surprise!” (more than 6 million views) and “Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper” (more than 30 million views).
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DewyPeaches
Nov. 15, 2011 at 11:16pmMy college roommate made a series of dating videos and said she pulls in about $300 a month. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPhXA3VOYhY
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reaganited
Nov. 15, 2011 at 10:57pmGoogle has paid me around $500 so far on this “how to” video that I made and posted 3 yrs ago. I’m happy that it helps people. And, I like the fact that Google and I both benefit. I now know that internet traffic is a valid commodity. watch my video and learn (maybe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3Ec1p93PA
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Joyzee
Nov. 15, 2011 at 8:33pmWait, how much goes to distribution of wealth$
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black9897
Nov. 15, 2011 at 10:04pmVideo was never THAT funny anyhow.
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Oraclevoiceofreason
Nov. 15, 2011 at 7:22pmgreat good for them
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proliance
Nov. 15, 2011 at 7:11pmYou joined The Blaze just to let people know how stupid you are?
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dudeman4
Nov. 15, 2011 at 7:03pmIf these guys got to be the face of the “1%”, do you think there would be any female Occupy people?
And once that happened, how long would there be any male Occupy people?
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Slayer
Nov. 15, 2011 at 6:58pmThe giggling quintuplets is my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAs0wdIydrI
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lemonlover54
Nov. 15, 2011 at 8:30pmThat’s the mathiasquads and it really is GREAT!!!!!
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ramburner
Nov. 15, 2011 at 6:15pmSounds like you don’t like kids, and you HATE Capitalism. For me, Go For It – if you can make a hundred and fifty eight thousand by posting your kids funny videos – start taking pictures full time! Good for you daddy.
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welovetheUSA
Nov. 15, 2011 at 6:08pmWho Cares………
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another pucker
Nov. 15, 2011 at 5:36pmNever posted on you tube! YET!
XOXOXO
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LeadNotFollow
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:50pmI never tire of seeing this video. When Charlie giggles, it cracks me up.
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bpost58
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:27pmYou call people ignorant, yet you can not spell it. Kind of makes me wonder……
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MangoT21
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:23pmI don’t see anything wrong with this…Hopefully the disapproval I’m reading here isn’t just bitterness at not being the first to think of something like this.
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old white guy
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:38pmeh, who cares. i hope the kids parents get enough to keep the kids in twinkies for the rest of their lives.
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lilnomics
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:22pmCheck these kids out. They get a little lesson in taxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXCWTbJ8kM
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santoslilhelper
Nov. 15, 2011 at 8:35pmwow, that was a pretty good lesson on economics. if only our Politicians used their brains. Its common sense.
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santoslilhelper
Nov. 15, 2011 at 8:36pmwow, that was a pretty good lesson on economics. if only our Politicians used their brains. Its common sense.
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PoliticalJunkieToo
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:08pmThis is why I rarely click on any Youtube video that is “family related” especially if I can see they made a slew of videos. I pass. Let them get a job other than making stupid videos.
It is the same reason I refuse to watch those dumb family shows like Sister Wives, Jon Kate plus 8 and the worst of the lot – 19 kids and counting which depicts a moron mother with an IQ of one she passed onto her eldest son and most of her children.
Whether on Youtube like this family or on TV – they are all in it for the money and I refuse to participate in making them money.
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proliance
Nov. 15, 2011 at 7:12pmDid you get beat up by a giggling baby when you were little?
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just happy
Nov. 15, 2011 at 10:29pmobviously you haven’t read the story about the 19. Are you jealous or envious or just like to grumble ?
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oldschoolgreen
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:26pmGood for them. I am gonna get my kids to bite each other. Course one is 15 the other is 12. Think it will have the same draw?
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mdlwoods
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:07pmNo, it will have much more of a draw…of actual blood!
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abbygirl1994
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:53pmI loved that video..
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lcovar
Nov. 15, 2011 at 5:35pmI love it too. Why some of you are angry?
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sWampy
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:45pmThe little one looks retarded, guess he will become a world leader one day.
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BurntHills
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:23pmthat lil guy looks so much like our bro/in/law that we all fell off our feet laughing about it.
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beaubird
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:00pmSwampy why dont you go jump in a swamp you ass!!!!!!!!! How would yu like it if somebody called your kids retarted? Course people like yu probably would not care! IDIOT!!
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loriann12
Nov. 15, 2011 at 6:53pmAnd how would you feel if you had a mentally challenged child? I do.
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handsoffmystuff
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:32pmEnjoy those teeth while you got em kid. You’re British and when the fall out … that’s it.
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PoliticalJunkieToo
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:09pmlol
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BByrom
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:17pmEliasim – Drugs are bad,
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:25pmNo, actually making drugs illegal is what is “Bad.” Because you presume to decide for everyone what is good, and what is bad, and therefore people never make ‘The good wine.” And look what it has done to America. A government out of control, and massive drug problems (because you made it taboo) on the border that is going to destroy America.
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:27pmYou may run fast, but nature runs faster.
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:44pmDo you know that people use words that have been created by the “Powers that be” just so the words could be a tool to be made Taboo, and as such was a way to build walls? I bet your little weak soul had no idea.
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:48pmCase in point, the only reason racial slurs have so much power is because they were made taboo. But people like you are far too big of a dope to know those things. Ha, and you accuse me of doping.
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Monday
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:06pmEliasim,
Clearly you need to get a job! You have way too much time.
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oldschoolgreen
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:23pmYes drugs are bad, but if you don’t let people find that out for themselves they never will. I know analogy is a false form of logic but bare with me. Kittens(yes kittens) make approximately 40 distinct vocalizations. Full grown house cats make about 30. Full grown feral cats that have never been house cats, only make about 8. Why the difference? Because the house cat, even though its full grown never actually matures beyond adolescence.The feral cat reaches its full adult potential because it has to. No choice. Our nanny state creates the same thing. Look at how many 40-50 somethings collect toys from their youth. Something my Grandfather, born in 1893 would have scoffed at.We have created a perpetual class of adolescencents because they are never required to make the tough decisions.They are never exposed to the dangers that are supposed to come part and parcel with life. Let them do drugs. The smart ones will control it or eshew it all togther. The dumb ones will remove themselves from the gene pool.
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Firebrand
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:34pmHas no one figured out that Eliasim is Encinom/Monicne?
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Infidelephant
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:01pm…does anyone care?
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Rowgue
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:06pmLol yeah because there are no drug problems anywhere where drugs are legal. Seriously the liberatarians have to get their heads out of their asses and realize this isn’t their winning platform.
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Reload
Nov. 15, 2011 at 5:12pmI don’t do drugs……………………………………… drugs do me.
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TEXASGRANNY73
Nov. 15, 2011 at 8:30pm@eliasim Just passing through. No need to respond. You took your brain out and played with it again, didn’t you?
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grayling646
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:26pmReminds me of my 18th birthday when dad told me he was taking me to the nudie bar.
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grayling646
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:27pmThe one about Disneyland, that is.
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WildHorseTexan
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:56pmHeck, Gray, I STILL act like that when someone invites me to a nudie bar!
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someonewhocares
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:15pmHope that goes to something useful and not taxes.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
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HorseCrazy
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:22pmwow maybe I need a viral video. good for them
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@leftfighter
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:15pmThe Blaze asked:
How Much Did the Family Behind the Viral ‘Charlie Bit Me’ Video Make?
My answer:
I don’t care and won’t begrudge anyone making any amount of money. I hope they made a billion!
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brian8793
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:17pmAre you trying to say you’re not a Democrat?
Me niether ; )
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Hephzibah
Nov. 16, 2011 at 10:56amSame here. Good for them!
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:12pmI need to teach Glenn Beck something. The Holy Bible is a consolidation of many, many books. At the End of the Book of Revelation it says (in the Book of Revelation)22:18 “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the Holy city and from the things which are written in this book.”
Moreover, that commandment only applies to the Book of Revelation.
Just remember Glenn, you sought out me, because one of your brothers asked me a few years ago, “Have you ever heard of Glenn Beck?” Of course it’s a brother you only know in spirit.
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nhays331
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:20pmEliasim…..do you post random crap? I fail to see how this relates to the story of biting charlie…
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CatB
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:26pmHe must !!!
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grayling646
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:29pmhey eliasim, did you forget to take your meds today?
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:34pmAh say what you will, but when the Son comes down, whom is also your Father. You will shriek and run away. You know why? Because you are also demons.
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garyM
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:37pmEliasim ………….Maybe you should expand on that a little more ! I’m trying to figure out the message you were trying to convey, did you join the Mormons? Was that it? You said that the passage only referred to the book of Rev. Are you saying that anyone can change all the words of the other books of the Bible without any fallout? I don’t think so!
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:39pmWhen the Son tells you that the Bible has been changed by Sorcerers because that’s what Satan does, with the exception of Revelation, you will feel a deep falling feeling, and then the Lukewarm will burn and deny the truth, and that’s because the Lukewarm are also demons.
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grayling646
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:40pmLOL eli, I remember reading something in the Bible about judging others?
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:42pmNo I’m not saying they can not be changed without fallout, but that I’m saying they were inspired by God but written by men, and therefore they are imperfect and flawed, and also since Satan despises the Father, Satan does change them.
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GilbertAcct
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:43pmThis guy is pretty out there… He is going around posting this crazy comment on all the Blaze articles.
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grayling646
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:43pmOne more thing eli, I hope you don’t own any guns.
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:52pmgrayling646,
Why do you hope I don’t have any guns, is that because you know what you would do with guns? I know it is, because I know that. But actually I wouldn’t do that with guns just as much as I know little David reasoned with Goliath and did not actually hit Goliath with a real rock
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:57pmAnd I can tell you this that while I will not wipe out entire Continents, the Son will, because the Son decides who lives and who dies, but not the Father, because the Son is better than the Father.
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atechgeek
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:13pmIgnore him .. he’s a tool left far from the shed.
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Eliasim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:18pmgrayling646,
See it’s actually you who are dangerous with having a gun, and I know that just as much as I know it’s the psychologist whom is messed up in the head more than the patient. For example I went to a marriage counselor (and this is an example of most because I lived a long life), because my marriage to the people really stinks (of course I thought it was my actual wife, but it’s society that stinks). And while I looked into the room after I went to the bathroom, the marriage counselor was sitting their pulling out her hair, and counting the books on her shelf over and over again.
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TombstoneJim
Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:32pmAs a Latter Day Saint, Glen is well aware of that admonition in Rsvelation’s only applying to that book itself and not further Light and Knowledge from God…..
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Marci
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:02pmIt sounds a whole lot like you are threatening Glenn. Thanks for posting your crazy ramblings so we know you’re out there. Which one will come for you first, the men in black or the men in white jackets? I guess it depends on your behavior ELIASIM.
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sissykatz
Nov. 15, 2011 at 3:09pmI think ELIASIM must get paid by someone for each post made.
Each article he posts more.
I almost didn’t post because I thought this was Eli”s thread.
I love this video. Good for them I hope they make a fortune…
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bikerr
Nov. 15, 2011 at 4:14pm@nhays331—Give Eli a break,He is a stalker and has a man crush on Glenn.Just like the people in the video make money so does this idiot when ever his posts are replied to.
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SLOWBIDEN
Nov. 16, 2011 at 11:33ameliasm or whatever ur name is. ur a MORON.
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Sparhawk
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:10pmAnd now this video has been made into a Gerber baby food commercial: http://www.youtube.com/user/Gerber?v=1LxLpLTBY9o
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MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Nov. 15, 2011 at 1:26pm@SparHawk Fabulous! Thanks for sharing that link. More money for college…
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