Comments on: AdSense Launch Video Units

By: m led

m led — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:44:16 +0000

the video monetization will be best suited to the content which allows for some kind of a tv play. such a contnt will encourge more ctr

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:03:32 +0000

This is good idea but cant figure out how one is paid, just by looking at the videos or the ads on top. Difficult one but hopefully it would become clearer. Thanks.

By: effected

effected — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:38:23 +0000

Well it would be a great idea certain niche sites like video games, but the problem here is that even the smallest video doesn’t seem to fit right on the sidebar. On the preview, the smallest one looked perfectly it’ll fit but when i posted on my site, the frickin huge one came up instead. Weird….

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:42:30 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out an effective way to use this on a blog. It’s actually no different from the already available YouTube “custom players” except for the advertising, and I never found a good way to incorporate them either. You can put them at the bottom of the page, where they’re never seen. You can put them at the top of the page, above your real content and pushing the real content “below the fold”. They’re way too big to fit in a standard sidebar of any sort. You can put the player on its own page and just give a link, but again that’s not likely to see much readership. It looks to me like any effective use is going to involve redesigning the blog so that half of the page is content (and navigation) and the other half is this YouTube player.

I don’t think this is going to do much for Google or for publishers without a lot of tweaking.

By: Armaan

Armaan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:58:23 +0000

Darren, Can you please say, when it will be available for world?

Thanks……..

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By: Edward Dowd

Edward Dowd — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:41:33 +0000

I wrote an article on why this is the worst idea every by the Adsense team.
http://theblogbeat.com/google-adsense-introduces-youtube-video-unit-but-stay-away/

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:32 +0000

The option finally showed up in my adsense account, and I was playing with it now–but haven’t added it anywhere yet. Thing is, as Chino said above, it’s *huge*. The smallest option is 400 x 415, followed by 500 x 510 and 780 x 560 models. That is a huge chunk of real estate you’re talking about. I guess one could throw it between posts on a blog (with some difficulty), but I wonder if it wouldn’t be more annoying to one’s readers than it’s worth.

By: vince -www.reviewbay.com

vince -www.reviewbay.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:45:57 +0000

I think it’s a great model google/youtube are implementing.
It’s a win-win-win situation, everybody benefits, google/youtube, their partners, the video maker, and you the user embedding the video on your site.
More ‘win’ for you I gues, if you are both the maker and the one who embeddes the video.

Will be interesting to follow the development of this new model.

//vince

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:52:48 +0000

Why only US publishers? I know they are still probably testing it, but this always bugs me.

By: Asako

Asako — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:53:14 +0000

….I just posted an article of AdsTube on my blog as a potential startup idea. I am just so un-original. I thought Google would do this when it acquired YouTube.

I think the next step is to allow consumers to really create and customize ads, not just color and size. That is the fundamental value of YouTube. If it is pre-made ads, it is not that interesting. If someone could come up with a way to get consumer generated ads selected and authorized by a branded company to be an official ads, I think that would be more interesting.

By: analogstuff

analogstuff — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:41:54 +0000

Its bad that only it is available to US publishers. I wish that it will be available soon in india. Darren do you know of any other providers who provide Video Ads for publishers.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:19:47 +0000

IMHO, with more finite controls, this could be a very useful tool for generating content. AND, with the spammy, lunatics you find online all the time, this could be a very abused and annoying tool.
45n5: I have to agree with you about video producers not being mentioned.

By: 45n5

45n5 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:51:45 +0000

another let down is no mention about any of that add revenue going to the video producers

By: Myo Kyaw Htun

Myo Kyaw Htun — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:19:23 +0000

Not available for Thailand. :(

Why Adsense team said ‘just log in’ ?

By: Brennan

Brennan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:43:42 +0000

Ok, so I’ve added the code, but I’m only seeing “Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com” and not a video player. Is that what you’re seeing Bob?

By: bob cobb

bob cobb — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:29:54 +0000

It just showed up for me, but the player hasnt showed up yet. Not sure how long its supposed to take.

By: eshark

eshark — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:40:56 +0000

Ya! Same here with Mike, until now I still don’t see the adsense video unit on my adsense product yet! why is that?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:24:09 +0000

“The AdSense blog say that you can log into your AdSense account to start using this – but I’m yet to see the option yet so haven’t yet tested it – but it looks like a useful option that will suit those of you wanting to play with video.”

You need to sign up with youtube using your Adsense login as your email address.

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77447&ctx=en:search&query=video+links&topic=&type=

By: Royston

Royston — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:03:44 +0000

Sounds promising. I might have to give it a try.

By: Nick Sullivan

Nick Sullivan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:50:25 +0000

Oh no sorry, I just went to the Adsense blog and they are overlay ads also.

The thing is though… you can’t use your own videos… you have to chose somebody elses… so what’s the point. I was really hoping to be able to use ads over my own videos.

This is useless to me, I won’t be shoving huge redundant video players on my site with other people’s videos.