Producer Features:  

Metacafe is the premier site for people who like to make their own videos. While YouTube is littered with recordings of TV shows and movies, Metacafe is focused almost exclusively on user-generated content. This is done by design.

In fact, Metacafe users have a significant amount of power in the community, with the ability to rate and review videos. But the most empowering part of submitting videos to Metacafe is the possibility of getting paid. Since Metacafe runs on an advertising model, the company naturally wants to reward the people who bring in a lot of views. So Metacafe has created the Producer Rewards system that pays people for posting popular videos.

Metacafe will pay the creator of a popular video $5 for every 1,000 views. You don’t get paid until a video has gotten 20,000 views, at which point you receive $100 as well as $5 for every additional 1,000 views it gets.

There are some other stipulations that apply; for instance, a video must be suitable for all ages, follow Metacafe community standards, not infringe upon copyright laws, maintain a 3.0 rating from other users and get the 20,000 qualifying views within 6 months of being posted on Metacafe. These requirements sound steep, but it is entirely possible to achieve them and, indeed, many people have. 

Content:  

Metacafe tries to focus exclusively on user-generated content. This doesn’t mean that you won’t find occasional clips from TV shows or movies, but there are far fewer of them than on other video share sites. Since Metacafe has far more original content, it’s actually more fun to browse casually because you sill see so much that you haven’t seen before.

Individual files on Metacafe must be less than 100MB, but there is no set limit on length. Since video quality affects the file size, you can find many different video lengths on Metacafe.

However, the vast majority of videos on Metacafe are less than a few minutes long. Much of the content is focused around humor, whether it be blunders caught on film or scripted jokes and skits by users. Besides the comedic, you can still find videos in almost every genre. One of the popular new genres is the how-to video. Many Metacafe users like to submit how-to videos, about anything, just because they seem to draw a lot of views, and thus bigger payouts from the Producer Rewards system.