Comments on: Next Big Thing for YouTube: E-Commerce Links

By: YouTube to Bring In $500M This Year? « NewTeeVee

YouTube to Bring In $500M This Year? « NewTeeVee — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:01:22 +0000

[...] The site has been seriously ramping up its advertising efforts, adding pre-rolls, search ads, and affiliate links. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently evaluated YouTube’s business as “halfway” [...]

By: Progress on the Online Video Revenue Front | Viral Video Maker

Progress on the Online Video Revenue Front | Viral Video Maker — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:13:04 +0000

[...] YouTube said Wednesday it was extending its “click-to-buy” options for songs and movies associated with videos on its site to users in Germany, Spain and the [...]

By: YouTube Goes Offline with Downloads « NewTeeVee

YouTube Goes Offline with Downloads « NewTeeVee — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:21:44 +0000

[...] YouTube’s monetization full-court press. In the past few months the company has added added e-commerce links, sponsored videos, ads in embeds, and now direct [...]

By: FanTrust » Blog Archive » Progress on the Online Video Revenue Front [NewTeeVee]

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:20:46 +0000

[...] people feel there’s more work to be done. Meanwhile, YouTube said Wednesday it was extending its “click-to-buy” options for songs and movies associated with videos on its site to users in Germany, Spain and the [...]

By: Magento

Magento — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:51:34 +0000

Videos will be one of the most interesting tools in 2009. Especially the combination with shopping-features could be one the most important factors in ebusiness in the near future.

By: Progress on the Online Video Revenue Front « NewTeeVee

Progress on the Online Video Revenue Front « NewTeeVee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:39:02 +0000

[...] YouTube said Wednesday it was extending its “click-to-buy” options for songs and movies associated with videos on its site to users in Germany, Spain and the [...]

By: YouTube Refocuses on Premium, and Once Again Misses the Point « NewTeeVee

YouTube Refocuses on Premium, and Once Again Misses the Point « NewTeeVee — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:02:09 +0000

[...] a flurry of recent ad product launches, we doubt the site can legitimately check that task off its list. But Schmidt [...]

By: YouTube adds Amazon, iTunes download link. « Pei-chieh in Seattle

YouTube adds Amazon, iTunes download link. « Pei-chieh in Seattle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:49:18 +0000

[...] Next Big Thing for YouTube:E-Commerce Links [...]

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:30:28 +0000

Any guesses on what CPC is being charged for these links? Haven’t other music video sites enabled similar features ?

By: If This Monetization Plan Doesn’t Work Out, There’s Always the Amazon Tip Jar | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:34:11 +0000

[...] the “it” to which Schmidt refers be the new e-commerce platform YouTube is launching? Perhaps. Beginning this week YouTube is embedding “click-to-buy” links in certain [...]

By: smellsworth

smellsworth — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:51:07 +0000

Evenhere is another click-to-buy technology, that has an unobtrusive approach. http://www.evenhere.com

I like:
Being able to activate or deactivate the plugin as a viewer.
A small popup bar with thumbnails rather than hotspotting taking away from content.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:02:56 +0000

A blunt copy or just a creative inspiration? Actually the biggest Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga (and also the biggest competitor of YouTube in Nippon) already uses a very similar business model also in cooperation with Amazon.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/

Most interesting point is they started this business model on the mobile phone and then expanded it to their PC site.

By: Coming Soon: YouTube Clickable Product Placement? | The Mike Abundo Effect

Coming Soon: YouTube Clickable Product Placement? | The Mike Abundo Effect — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:02:31 +0000

[...] YouTube’s introducing small iTunes and Amazon affiliate links under videos of selected partners. If you’re familiar [...]

By: scott broomfield

scott broomfield — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:37:07 +0000

Well, it is about time that YouTube ‘begin’ to think about how to get video into the lean in Web 2.0. There are about dozen more things they should be doing like a few of the early innovators, like ourselves, in the area of interactive / clickable video. There are about 6 of us who are way ahead in terms of clickable video. We’re pretty good at this, including very advanced analytics. Have a quick look at http://www.veeple.com and look at our showroom.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:25:11 +0000

Google should please let anyone become so called Youtube “partner”. Most countries aren’t part of that thing yet. Let anyone be it, just as anyone from the whole world can put adsense on their website.

Google should let people have a “Donate” button on their Youtube pages just as Obama and McCain have.

Google should let all Youtube content provider decide to activate different levels of monetization, including relevant overlay advertising using voice-recognition, using user-submitted video tagging, but also let all the Youtube content providers pick products to sell from each video page as a one click process. Making a video about that new TV? Let people buy it using a one-click process. Display Froogle type price comparisons on product searches as well so people can pick the cheapest price.

Let all content providers identify their content, so their content would be automatically “claimed” using video and audio recognition using digital and analog fingerprints.

It’s Google’s responsibility to monetize all this right now, to make this happen as soon as possible.

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:03:16 +0000

When do we see YouTube pre-rolls?