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First there was YouTube, then BetTube. Way back in March this year, What’s New On The Net had reported on the birth of a Site that allowed people to bet on which YouTube video would go viral.

We are now told that the Site has launched its beta version this Monday, Nov 25. Founder Clemens Lay told this website that BetTube had been redesigned from the ground up to be the place to watch & bet on upcoming videos before they go viral.

BetTube was founded in Munich, Germany by Clemens, who, prior to working on BetTube, had graduated from Oxford University with a PhD in Computer Science.

Here’s how BetTube works: Users can bet that a video will go viral within the next 12 hours. Each bet is a prediction of the future & BetTube aggregates these predictions into a chart of videos that are likely to go viral in the near future.

Online videos that go viralThe centerpiece of BetTube is the ‘YouTube’s Hottest New Videos’ chart. It shows all videos that BetTube bettors have bet on within the last day. The videos are ordered according to the number of views that a video has gotten in the past hour.

To make it easy to find upcoming videos, BetTube features data visualisations which allow users to spot trending videos early. In this way BetTube is not only for gamblers – its also great place to watch YouTube’s hottest new videos.

There’s even a “Golden Rule” to win on BetTube: Always bet on videos with a low view count that are awesome.

Currently BetTube allows gambling with play money, real money gambling will be enabled in the future, says Clemens. Users can sign up for free & start predicting right away.

Since BetTube launched it’s alpha version at the Lauch Festival in San Francisco in March 2013, users have placed tens of thousands of bets.

 

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Here’s a video blog that features viral videos before they go viral!

Here’s a uniquely placed Internet startup. Called BetTube, this is an Online gambling platform for betting on the future success of YouTube videos. This startup launched on March 1, 2013.

Users can bet on which video will get how many new views in the next 12 hours. BetTube aggregates these bets into a blog of videos that are likely to go viral in the near future.

BetTube is launching with play money gambling for now, but said in a statement that it may switch to real money in the future.The rules of the betting platform entice users to bet on videos with a very low view count (usually below 1000) that will have thousands or even millions of views the following day. By crowdsourcing these bets, BetTube will be the website that features viral videos first.

BetTube is a startup from Munich, Germany founded by Clemens Ley in January 2013. Prior to working on BetTube, he received a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford. The company also gave a demo of BetTube at the Launch Festival in San Francisco, USA.

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