AdSense for YouTube is live
AdSense has introduced video units today. Currently this feature is open only to publishers located in the United States with English-language websites. It will be live for the ROTW (rest of the world) later today.
How to activate video units? (watch the movie below)
Now that the youtube videos are monetized, there will be even more junk videos in youtube network. On the other hand, it’s a great opportunity to those genuine, popular youtube directors.
How it looks?
Here is how the video will look like. There will be a skin around the youtube video, which I think looks awful. It will contain a banner on top. I am not sure if the banner can be removed. There will also be one text ad on the video footer, sometimes it’s just one line and sometimes it is few lines.
This will be a very ugly looking AdSense YouTubes… I thought the ads will be inserted at the beginning of the video and not around it ;) Because it takes up so much space… But the disadvantage of ads before the video would be the waiting, it would make really bad experience too. Either way, it’s not about usability here, it’s about making money. So I guess that makes usability out the window!
Your share
Now that the youtube has adsense, will you be jumping in the bandwagon and start producing your own videos? As for me, I don’t think I will be producing any videos in the near future yet. Maybe really really later…
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By jeketb on Oct 10, 2007
that’s sound great..I’ll take advantage with this new faetures…btw, how it work?? do we get 100% earning from the video??
By Chris [TK] on Oct 10, 2007
great news for all of us…
too bad for the moment this is only available for US publishers :(
By PreBlogging on Oct 10, 2007
grrr, it ate my comment
I wonder what the ROI on these would be. Would they be higher than those Gadget ads or not. I guess it was always on the cards since they bought YouTube (they have to get their money back some how).
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By Sergio on Oct 11, 2007
thanks for the example and the news, great!
By uncle sha on Oct 11, 2007
i agree they should work on a more sleak streamline skin. the colors are so bright that it shouts, ugly me!
but then again we’re talking about adsense engineers who knows what a user wants. maybe its designed for optimized performance?
well as long the ROI is high, i don’t mind putting up the fugly videos :)