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Google Monetizes Youtube Videos

Google’s Adsense monetizing programme for bloggers and website publishers seems to be growing stronger and stronger by the hour even as many advertising networks spring up.

Earlier this year, rumours were rife that Google was going to add video ad units to the already existing adsense money making product streams. Well after a long period of waiting for this interesting ad feature Google this morning officially started monetizing videos on youtube.

It was announced on Google’s Official Adsense Blog that the service is now ready for publishers and bloggers to use on their blogs and websites.

We’re excited about the launch of video units — a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player.

Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site. You can choose categories of video to target to your site, select content from individual YouTube partners, or have video automatically targeted to your site content.

Companion and text overlay ads are relevant and non-intrusive. To further blend the YouTube player into your site, you can also customize the color scheme and layout as well as choose from three different player sizes.

[Via Google Adsense Blog]

The new format is known as a “video unit,” and consists of three things:

1. A customizable embedded player
2. The Video Content
3. The Advertisement

Below is a sample of the Google Video Ad Unit

In order to use the service, publishers will need both an AdSense account and a Youtube account. Upon registering for the AdSense video program, the two accounts will be merged.

Similar to Google text version of AdSense, advertisers are charged only when an individual clicks on an ad. In the video program, however, both the site publisher and the video producer will be given a share of the ad revenue.

Note:
Google Video Ad Units is Currently Available for United States Publishers whose websites are in the English-Language Only.

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Google Introduces AdSense for Mobile

I just read on Problogger that Google has just launched a new service which enables publishers with Mobile websites to monetize them.

AdSense publishers who are logging into their AdSense accounts today will notice a new link in their Overview page - AdSense for Mobile - Get Started. Source: Problogger.net

This means you are supposed to see the link after you log on. Hurriedly I logged on to see how best I could start utilizing this tool.

I got to the page and realized the link wasn’t showing on my page. LOL

For a moment, I thought it was just a prank Darren Rowse was playing on us, but knowing the credibility he has in the blogosphere, I did a double-check by opening the Adsense Setup Page. Below Adsense Setup Page was a text marked with an astericks.

• We do not currently offer AdSense for Mobile in Ghana.

Obviously that means Adsense for Mobile is currently not available to Publishers in Ghana and “perhaps” other countries outside America.

NB: Ghana is located in West Africa.

So for publishers in America and Its environs, its time to start going mobile with Adsense, but if you happen to be in my shoes, you will just have hold on and wait patiently till Adsense for Mobile reaches you.

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