Get Paid for Showing YouTube Videos On Your Site: AdSense adds Video Units

[mandy]

AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site -- and earn extra revenue at the same time.

We're excited about the launch of video units -- a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player. Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site. You can choose categories of video to target to your site, select content from individual YouTube partners, or have video automatically targeted to your site content. Companion and text overlay ads are relevant and non-intrusive. To further blend the YouTube player into your site, you can also customize the color scheme and layout as well as choose from three different player sizes....

full announcement: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/10/intr...units.html

FAQ: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/b...opic=12182&sourceid=aso&subid=us-en-et_faqvublogannounce&medium=link

How do I earn with video units?

When you place a video unit on your website, you'll earn revenue from two types of ad formats: companion ads, which sit above your video content within the player and can be either text or image-based, and text overlay ads, which appear in the bottom 20% of the video content area. Ads on video units can be paid on either a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand impression basis.

[jezebel]

Coming soon: video spam sites. 

[bargainbloodhound]

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Coming soon: video spam sites. 
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...and lots of slow loading pages. 

[mandy]

You have to join YouTube when you opt into Video Units because the video setup is done on the YouTube site.  A menu item is created in your YouTube account that links the account to AdSense. The list of video content providers is limited at this point.

Analysis of Google's move:

Google's move is a natural progression for the online advertising industry as bandwidth continues to expand...

Still, there are many different models that the online advertising industry could adopt in this relatively new space.

"What will be interesting is how and when Google takes the next steps of layering its many tools -- such as with the bidding technology or the way it determines which ads are suitable for which Web sites -- into one offering. That, plus building out an advertising inventory, will really add some girth to this medium,"...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/RfIAMzqP...Gold.xhtml