Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to manufacture a living.

One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure incomes from the Web site. For some, like Michael Buckley, the self-taught host of a celebrity chatter show, filming funny videos is now a full-time job.

Buckley quit

his day job in September after his online profit had greatly surpassed his salary as an administrative assistant for a music promotion company. His thrice-a-week online show “is foolish,” he said, but it has helped him escape from under his credit card debt.

Buckley, 33, was the part-time host of a weekly show on a Connecticut public access channel in the summer of 2006 when his cousin started posting snippets of the show […]

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