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Google To Monetize Content From Consenting YouTubers

Posted by Zonk on from the youtubers-is-the-strangest-word-ever dept.

sufijazz writes "Google has announced its intention to allow advertisers to monetize the contents of YouTube videos. 'The ads accompanying the outbound YouTube clips won't be in a video format. Instead, they will appear as a graphic straddling the video or as a link along the bottom. Google won't be pulling clips from YouTube's entire library ... The material sent to other Web sites will be confined to video from providers who sign consent forms. With the new twist, Web sites participating in AdSense now can sign up to specify the kinds of YouTube videos they want shown on their pages.' Everyone sees a cut in this plan, evidently. Both the creator of the video as well as anyone that embeds it on their website will receive a share of the profits. The company has yet to specify the percent each party gets."

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  1. AdSense is nowe a very broad church.... by DamonHD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Interesting that the AdSense medium (along with its counterpart, AdWords) now supports diverse charging models CPM/CPC/CPA as well as all these different media. I'm a bit of a YouTube skeptic, but maybe G will make it a little more grown-up and useful with things like this!

    Glossary: http://www.publisher-world.com/read.php?12,10879,10879#msg-10879

    Rgds

    Damon

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  2. Re:Monetize? by brunes69 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Monetization may also refer to... charging for something that used to be free or making money on a goods and services that were previously unprofitable.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetize

  3. Tsk, the solution is even simpler by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most likely the flash player send two requests to the server, one for the video and one for the flash ad. Just have the proxy return an empty ad, and voila, no ad.

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  4. Calvin and Hobbes said it best: by ajlitt · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Verbing weirds language"

  5. Re:GOOGLE! by tlacuache · · Score: 2, Informative

    Agreed. My intention was to mock most of the "google is now evil" posts. (I'm actually not that retarded.)