YouTube pays out $1 million to users

http://newteevee.com/2008/04/16/youtube-pays-users-1-million/

A couple VERY relevant quotes:

Break a Leg's Yuri Baranovsky said he’d collected $1,600 for more than 2 million views on YouTube.

YouTube partner videos are the only ones on the site for which YouTube shows overlay ads, which it says it tries to sell for a $20 CPM.

So, let me get this straight... YouTube receives $20 CPM for overlay ads, yet pays its partners $0.80 CPM. The scary thing is that this is probably a better deal than what the users are getting on Metacafe, which pays a $5 CPM but has 1/20 of the pageviews of YouTube (see below).