Youtube - now with commericals!

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I have CP whitelisted. The adblocking software won't block anything when it is at forum.calgarypuck.com/*

The actual rule is @@|http://forum.calgarypuck.com/ and apparently, since I had to rebuild my profile last month, I have rendered 85719 ads which would have otherwise been blocked (and that is just on this computer).

Back on topic, reading a bit more, it sounds like this is just going to be an overlay on the botom of the picture that isn't going to pause the video. It will sit there for 10 seconds then disappear if it isn't clicked.

The ads are only going to be put on specified videos (a number of commercial and independent video makers have been secured), and Google is going to split the ad revenue with the content creators.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/...tion-tele.html

I think this could be a great idea. This may allow independant producers to create content and profit from it without needing to get on a TV channel. Think of it like being able to put Arrested Development on a channel where you could watch it whenever you wanted, the only commercials would be on the bottom 20% of the screen for 10 seconds at a time, and NO NETWORK COULD EVER CANCEL THEM. As long as enough people watched and enough ad revenue was generated, the show could produce any number of episodes as long as they want.

If you have an idea for a TV show, you could produce it and post it and let it succeed or fail without needing an OK from a TV buyer.

La Flames Fan's "Fuddy TV" would have a place where he could post his videos and make money (beyond directing them to his website for the ad revenue).

Done well, this could be the wave of the future.

Exactly. "Blip.tv" who hosts our videos has an ad system in place. The problem of course is their ads aren't very well done and certainly don't induce clicking. On several of our videos you'll see a little thing pop-down and if the user clicks it, we get money, not much, but a little.

I do have a concern...is YouTube going to share that profit with the video uploader? What ramifications does it have for those people who post videos that aren't theirs? For instance if someone takes our Chuck Storm video and uploads it themselves, without our permission, and it by someway gets more views than ours, would they get paid more money? If so, I'm not sure if I like that all too much.

Hopefully, YouTube would have the sense to put a pretty strong system in place, much like Adsense, or even like Blip.tv does. We'll see.

I can see a definite upside to this, as Bobblehead mentioned, but I also see a downside where either YouTube doesn't pay anything to the publisher or people abuse the system for their own personal gain on other's material.

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Exactly. "Blip.tv" who hosts our videos has an ad system in place. The problem of course is their ads aren't very well done and certainly don't induce clicking. On several of our videos you'll see a little thing pop-down and if the user clicks it, we get money, not much, but a little.

Yes, those ads are sucktacular. Just awful. But now that I know you get some money that way, I'll do my best to click every once in a while, instead of ignoring them completely.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Exactly. "Blip.tv" who hosts our videos has an ad system in place. The problem of course is their ads aren't very well done and certainly don't induce clicking. On several of our videos you'll see a little thing pop-down and if the user clicks it, we get money, not much, but a little.

I do have a concern...is YouTube going to share that profit with the video uploader? What ramifications does it have for those people who post videos that aren't theirs? For instance if someone takes our Chuck Storm video and uploads it themselves, without our permission, and it by someway gets more views than ours, would they get paid more money? If so, I'm not sure if I like that all too much.

Hopefully, YouTube would have the sense to put a pretty strong system in place, much like Adsense, or even like Blip.tv does. We'll see.

I can see a definite upside to this, as Bobblehead mentioned, but I also see a downside where either YouTube doesn't pay anything to the publisher or people abuse the system for their own personal gain on other's material.

From what I read, YouTube is securing agreements with content creators and those are the videos that may have these commercials.

Kind of like they will get an agreement with NBC, and then NBC supplies NBC with content which has the ads. But the average Joe who uploads his vacation clips won't have any commercials.

So far YouTube has secured 3000 commercial video content providers and 70 indie video creators for the program. Exact percentages haven't been revealed, but YouTube has confirmed that content creators will split the ad revenue with YouTube.

So that sounds to me like unless you have an agreement you won't be party to this enterprise. It sounds very similar got Google Adsense - you need to apply.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Nothing's funnier than people on the internet absolutely freaking out over advertisements.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

Nothing's funnier than people on the internet absolutely freaking out over advertisements.

Have you not read the Uranus thread?

[TurnedTheCorner]

Touche, good sir. Touche.

[Kev]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Better this than start charging the users monthly subscription fees or something.

Completely agree. For th convenience and completeness of Youtube for finding just about anything video, I can handle a few commercials.