Although these numbers are still minuscule compared to YouTube, in just the last 7 days, Brighteon.com has achieved the following acceleration:
Several channels are posting near-real-time news analysis videos that are incredibly informative. Those channels include The Conservative Elite Network, The Pete Santilli Show, Red List News, The Daily Economist, Zolna Report and many others.
In addition, video embeds in articles are currently experiencing an astonishing 30% play rate, which is practically unheard of in the world of video content. Many videos are being embedded in content articles published at NaturalNews.com, NewsTarget.com, Health.news, Cancer.news, Survival.news and hundreds of other websites we publish.
Some videos are receiving special editorial coverage from our writing team. For example, see this article about a video showing a cell tower on top of a health food store. We also profile many channels as they join the network. For example, see this article about the launch of the Red List News channel.
By the way, in case you're wondering, yes the 5-second pre-roll ad will start to introduce some variety. It won't be the same ad all the time. Right now, we're just using a standard, fixed pre-roll ad to help spread the word about the platform.
The e-commerce back-end that financially supports Brighteon.com is now live and fully functioning. Check it out at shop.Brighteon.com (yes, you can actually shop there now). Orders are fulfilled from our Texas warehouse, which recently underwent a massive logistics upgrade that now makes our order fulfillment capacity 400% larger than our previous capacity.
The shop.Brighteon.com affiliate program is also live, and it pays from 9% - 12% on all purchases from your video viewers, while automatically displaying a "shop now" button underneath your videos, with your affiliate code automatically embedded. You can sign up as an affiliate at this link.
Videos are being viewed across all the popular platforms, including Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, Linux and even gaming consoles. Many new features are under construction right now, including:
You can see all the new videos, updated every 30 minutes or so, at this Brighteon.com link.
To date, Brighteon.com has not banned a single video for content, demonstrating our commitment to freedom of expression (with a few commonsense limitations).
Watch my latest update video discussing the progress of Brighteon.com, along with my thanks to all participants who are creating content channels, uploading content and sharing the content online. Create your own video channel for free at Brighteon.com.
Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is the founding editor of NaturalNews.com, a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com called "Food Forensics"), an environmental scientist, a patent holder for a cesium radioactive isotope elimination invention, a multiple award winner for outstanding journalism, a science news publisher and influential commentator on topics ranging from science and medicine to culture and politics.
Mike Adams also serves as the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation.
In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.
Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.