YouTube hopes to be able to deliver user generated short video clips to mobile devices by the end of 2007, reports AdAge. A monetization model for mobiles is still being developed. Google is buying YouTube for $1.65 billion.

TechCrunch says mobile and Web 2.0 spaces are changing fast enough that some one is liable to grab the mobile “user generated content” space right out from under Google if launch takes that long. There’s plenty of video being delivered to phones now so it’s probably not a technical problem.

In related news, YouTube competitor Revver said today that it became the first video sharing service to be nominated for an Emmy.

Revver is a nominee in the category “Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of On Demand Technology Over the Public (open) Internet.” Revver’s video player shows short films in Flash then calls back to the Revver server to fetch a current still frame post-roll for an advertisement.

When you upload a video, Revver attaches an unobtrusive ad to the end of it. Every time someone watches the video and clicks on the ad, you get paid.

YouTube currently offers Video Uploads from a cellphone (below).

ShoZu also has added support for select WiFi-equipped phones, to send and receive photos, videos and other files from their mobile devices.

This summer ShoZu announced its free one-click image uploading service directly from camera phones to YouTube. Uploading via WiFi is generally faster and cheaper although most WiFi-enabled phones are still relatively expensive.

MobiTV raised $100M in financing. Perhaps it’s for their TDtv system, a UMTS TD-CDMA-3GP Multicast service (MBMS) for cellular operators or their tv over WiMAX system. There’s got to be a DirecTV angle in there somewhere, too. Look to the skies.

Posted by Sam Churchill on Friday, November 3rd, 2006 at 11:15 am.