By Daniel Scocco
It would be hard to find a person who never wondered how much money you can make by uploading videos to YouTube, especially if one of your videos go viral. That's exactly what happened with the video below where little Charlie bites the finger of his brother:
The video is now the 6th most viewed all time, with close to 430 million views. If you exclude commercial videos this is the most viewed one. And how much money did the parents make by uploading it?
They didn't reveal the exact number, but they said it was more than $150,000. Not bad for 57 seconds and a camera huh?
Here's a quote from an article that appeared on the Daily Mail:
Now, like a growing number of other British families, Howard, 42, and his wife, Shelley, 40, are earning thousands of pounds from this and other Harry and Charlie videos – Charlie On The Scooter He Got For Christmas; The Accident, which features Charlie eating at the kitchen table, dropping a piece of food and biting his own finger instead; and Try Again, which shows their baby brother Jasper learning to walk by pushing a toy along the floor – in what is fast becoming a successful money-making trend.
Read more: http://www. dailymail. co. uk/femail/article-2068938/Charlie-bit-finger-The-boys-100k-57-second-YouTube-video. html#ixzz1p2IZMfzC
