Want to be among the first humans on Mars? Then get inside online video! Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce a partnership with Virgin to select the first settlers on Mars through 30-second YouTube video responses.
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Google AdSense powers the Long Tail of the Web’s text content, and now it can power the Long Tail of the Web’s video content. Adopting YouTube’s InVideo ad format, AdSense for Video is now open for beta applications. Before you sign up to become the next Chad Hurley, check if you meet the beta signup […]
Textual and graphical AdSense ads are easy for advertisers to post themselves, but fancy $20 CPM YouTube InVideo overlays and video segments may prove intimidating for your average AdSense advertiser to produce. That’s probably why Google is partnering with Publicis.
Publicis, a leading advertising conglomerate, and Google are planning to work together, the companies announced today.
Through […]
Mere days after Google introduces video sitemaps, independent developers Robert Redwood and Marc Liron release a free offline generator called Video Sitemap Pro. Very cool. Now all I need is a WordPress plugin, preferably integrated with FLV Embed, and Google can quickly thumbnail all the videos hosted on my personal blogs.
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Winners create and innovate, losers litigate and negotiate. While the engineers at Google introduce new technologies for online video, the suits at Microsoft and Viacom just throw money at it.
A $500 million advertising and content partnership between Microsoft and media giant Viacom, announced this morning, has led to some speculation about Viacom’s motives for making […]
You know those cool thumbnails YouTube videos get in Google search results? Earlier this year, Google expanded that feature to results from other major video sites. Now even videos hosted on personal sites can get that extra visibility in the SERPs.
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The spam filter on Gmail works brilliantly. Google does a pretty good job of filtering search result spam. That’s why Nate “Blunty3000″ Burr begs Google to apply its antispam expertise to YouTube comment spam.
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Darren Rowse saw it come and go, and now it’s here to stay. US English AdSense publishers can now bundle AdSense units with YouTube partner videos and channels, either selected by the AdSense publisher or automatically matched to the publisher’s content. Both AdSense and YouTube offer signup pages for the bundling.
Yes, it feels pretty inflexible […]
Darren Rowse has discovered an option to include AdSense units on top of embeddable YouTube players — an option that has strangely disappeared as silently as it appeared. In place of the publisher signup page is this message: “This functionality is currently not available. Please try again later.”
Revver has long shared revenue not only with […]
YouTube launches a new program that allows nonprofit organizations to receive donations through — surprise, surprise — Google Checkout. Today’s YouTube front page features thirteen of the nonprofits using the program, headlined by the ever tech-savvy Bill Clinton.
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A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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