YouTube to Offer Cash Payouts

YouTube's spreading its cash to top contributors, and there's plenty to go round.

Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip, renetto, Smosh, and Valsartdiary – the names trip off the tongue. The A-List of YouTube.

But now they're to be rewarded for all their hard uploading work. The ubiquitous video-sharing site, has announced that it's to share out its lolly to the top contributors that make the site what it is.

No word yet on whether the bounty will be bestowed on us more casual uploaders but co-founder, Chad Hurley, did state in January that revenue sharing with users was on the cards. I'm firing up the camcorder as I speak...