“For 21-year-old Ben Phillips, a £12,000 windfall is less than a minute away – six seconds, to be precise.
All he needs to do is upload a clip filmed on his smartphone to the social media platform Vine. If he mentions a product or brand, that company will pay him thousands of pounds.
Now the Cardiff local (pictured, above) gets paid up to £2,000 for each second of promoted video he uploads.
Mr Phillips’ comedy clips include playing pranks and acting sketches with his friends – not high budget television ads – which have earned him the ear of advertisers.
But it’s not his homemade videos that brands are interested in. They are queuing up to get a mention in the hope that his 1.2 million followers will buy their products.”
Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/11049015/Britains-social-media-stars-making-2000-a-second.html
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) host of The Young Turks discuss with John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) and Hannah Cranston (https://twitter.com/HannahCranston_) hosts of Think Tank.
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Ferguson Update, Vine, Harrison Ford, Egyptian Wedding & The Dress. – The Young Turks 3/6/2015 Hour 2
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