Have you ever uploaded a professional looking video to YouTube? Think people would pay to watch it? With YouCastr, producers can upload videos and set prices for viewing. YouCastr not only lets you market your uploaded videos, they let you do it for free. They make money by taking a 30% cut of anything you make. That way, you can upload as many videos as you want, and YouCastr only gets paid when you get paid.

Started three years ago, YouCastr actually began as a virtual sports bar, not a video marketplace. Founder Ariel Diaz had a vision of a social media outlet focused on sports, which included the option of uploading video and adding audio commentary.

The concept evolved, however, when people started to use the site as a means to broadcast sporting events that were not televised, such as college and high school sporting events.

Today YouCastr has defined itself as a paid consumption video viewing source and marketplace. Producers upload videos, and can set whatever prices they like. Its roots are still in sports videos, with the vast majority being high school and college sports that are otherwise not available for those who couldn’t be in the stands. (The National USCAA basketball championships, for example, were shared through YouCastr.) But sports are hardly the limit to content, and YouCastr has recently started uploading conferences and documentary videos.

So at this point you may be thinking things like: “Who would pay for videos on YouCastr when they can probably find what they’re looking for on YouTube?” And “How do they screen the videos and which get in?”

To answer the first question, Ariel informed me that YouCastr has no intention of competing with YouTube. The videos featured on YouCastr are “content you can’t find on YouTube either by design, or that is withheld intentionally.” It isn’t just a video dump free-for-all like YouTube, but a “monetization channel for video producers that have a loyal audience.” To be sure, if users want to get paid for their videos, they aren’t putting them on free public outlets.

As for policing content, they probably aren’t going to want you uploading your personal rendition of Baby Got Back, but there technically isn’t any heavy policing of uploads. However, Ariel informed me that the team does react quickly to user complaints and mentioned that they had a few instances of X-rated videos that had to be taken down.

All content on the site is paid for, and examples of the videos they sell range from local sporting events to seminars to instructional videos. Videos can either be streamed live, or downloaded from the site. Some new content that has been picking up includes dirt track racing, boxing and MMA (mixed martial arts) competitions.

So do you spend your free time producing high quality videos and posting them on YouTube? If views are all you’re looking for that might work, but with YouCastr, you can upload, sell, and cash in on your digital video content.