The the data for calculating revenue per hit was found in an article on youtube's law suit. At the end it mentions that Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz made a hit movie. They posted it on http://www.revver.com only to have it pirated on sites like youtube. The word is they made 30 000 on 5.5 million hits while posted on
Revver. They figure another 30 000 was lost due to the copies.
Some simple calculations of their hit movie shows they made a little over
a half of penny per hit. From various businesses I have worked with which
are not splash hits like this clip was I can guess at the per hit
earnings is one eighth to one quarter of a cent. Which goes to show that
video is a high earner on the net.
http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2006/tc20060726_601698.htm
