As good a reason as any...

Any travel company still pondering over whether it's worth the effort of putting their own content on video-sharing sites such as YouTube will have been intrigued by this story on the BBC website over weekend.

The project, where those uploading videos to the recently Google-acquired site would be offered a cut of ad money similar to schemes run by sites such as Revver, will be restricted to popular material wholly owned by the originator [getting round the thorny issue of copyright].

Travel ticks many boxes here...

Kevin May, editor, Travolution