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Make Money Online with YouTube

written by John Chow on September 28, 2007

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It looks like Google’s $1.65 billion takeover of YouTube is about to pay some dividends. YouTube is rolling out a new video unit with Google ads embedded into them. Publishers who run the unit will get a share of the income generated.

From the looks of things, publishers will be displaying videos from Google’s choosing – you will not be able to earn money showing your own videos in the player. YouTube is claiming the video content will be targeted to your site because you can choose the categories or have Google choose the video based on your site content.

I checked my Google AdSense control panel but so far the new video unit has not appeared. However, YouTube has already put up an information page about it.

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Source: Problogger.net

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People make money from Metacafe.. Now youtube .. thats great

I was looking for something beautiful from Google. Adsense sucks. Takes away all visitors. hope this will keep the good looks apart from making money too

Seems YouTube delete the page! The page is not available any more.

Thats cool John,
Your inspirational articles have changed my way of thinking biz. We better be at a watch-out to what google is heading us to. Thanks John!
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I am looking forward to this product being made available it has great potential.

-Steve

I am looking forward to this coming online it has some great potential.

Steve

Very interesting.

This is great news for me! :grin:

My Adsense account does not show any video unit

More than happy to give it a try. Maybe not so much the personal blog but i have a great niche that`s really getting some legs now.

Sounds interesting kind of advertisment. I am wondering what would be the CTR.

I am not using a gmail account for my adsense service. Can I join it in the future ?

Sounds like a great idea but I doubt that I will be able to put it to use on my current sites. But for an arcade/funny picture sort of site I bet this would probably work real well!

Has YouTube been making any profit up till now?

Btw, what's propeller? I saw "Submit to Propeller" in your footer thing.

its netscapes version of digg.

Interesting, but not relevant for all bloggers sadly.

Wow can you say Google is one day going to rule the world.

It makes sense that advertising revenues have to come in to keep the service operational. How much of the advertising will be the right mix with viewing area will make it worthwhile or not.

Hi John!
Here's an idea for your next post... Go to Agloco blog, they've made a distribution plan... which is hmmm... very crapy? to say the least... I'd love to see your perspective in all of this.
Greetings from Croatia!

Text ads are one thing but the load time delay from this might just be a little too much for my users. Will be good for those of you running video and MM based websites though.

Someday.....
Adsense is using our computers like ad agencies use television. The advertising agencies pay a premium for high traffic time slots. Perhaps sometime in the future we can demand our own rates based on a similar idea.
I think many of us are underestimating our own potential/power and that of this medium to bring financial gain. This move by Google is a step in the right direction if, we utlize it correctly.

I know other video sharing websites are paying their users on a CPM basis. $3-4 CPM. Which I think is better than this, and they have the ad at the beginning of the video that is being played.

can you email me these websites. i would like to learn more.

bah. sounds like it's gonna be annoying. :(

well, I'm just hoping youtube doesn't spoil the user experience.

It is very easy to understand how it will earn you money. But there are doubts of how much it will earn you. You will have to have a massive amount of audience in order to earn a little money.

We can not know this without trying out.

I'm earning 15,000 Malaysian ringgit ! dollar to dollar , vis-a-vis u're not anything better than i do ! damn !

Very interesting. When I heard that google and youtube agreement, i was wondering how the $1.65 billion come back to google in a short term. But this is a good idea i think, why am i not think that? :razz:

I think it will be like the video ads of AdSense, well it seems a better way to get clicks, but the question is how well related the videos will be. BTW, I've just seen a blugrush link and I tough it was to this same web, but when I clicked it was johncow.com, hehe, my mistake.
I hope this video unit thing comes soon.

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One comment that didn't make sense and a second promoting the VistaPrint affiliate offer I presume... tsk tsk

sounds cool, but not sure if it fits the theme of my site.

You should be able to change the layout

AdSense is a lost cause now isn't it?

Anyone who thinks like you should read my blog of how I resurrected Adsense... Adsense is not dead.
50K a month from one account is a lost cause?

Guess not... :)

Self-promotion :roll: .

not really, i rather promote through Adwords

It's serendipity. We were about to launch, and John Chow talks about a new format in Google Adsense Program.

Since, I am adding content to this blog, I might as well, benefit myself too from commenting on his blog.

Don't you think? Isn't that what you are doing too? No worries, I will be getting a ReviewMe by John Chow too, so I hope by then you don't call it self-promotion.

Hey, we're talking about videos ads, so stop spamming the comments with your lame self-promotion and your lame website. You make money on the net? Woo-hoo! So do we. Now get lost.

I'd rather be able to choose the videos I display on my site, and then get a percentage of the ad revenues for ads shown in that video. As poorly targeted as I have seen textual AdSense ads, I don't really trust Google/YouTube to display videos that match my content.

Wow, that's a cool feature. Video ads in more opinion are so much better than text link ads.

this is actually cool. now all google needs to do is buy out wikipedia and serve adsense ads on that.

Oh yeah ... now we're talking money ! :)

Dammn, then I will not say internet. I would say ggg :shock:

Oh wow, that'd be crazy.

Yeah, I'm confused. How does this earn us income?

simple. you serve adsense based youtube ads. depending on googles metrics you get paid. just like adsense.

This looks very interesting. I can imagine it will be beneficial for both publisher and advertiser. A video attached to an ad seems more appealing to the plain ol adsense, which everyone is immune to now anyway. First smart move I've seen with this youtube acquisition.

Yeah, hopefully this new blood will inject some life into adsense earnings.

Neah ... video ads don't pay squat ... nothing's changed