8/23/2007
YouTube Adds Ads
YouTube finally unveiled its plans to use in stream overlay ads on its video sharing site. The semi-transparent ads, which appear on the bottom corner of thier video player, begin to appear 15 seconds into a clip and last up to 10 seconds. Users can click on the ad to pull up a separate video trailer. Advertisers can use the system to target viewers by age, s#x, geography, daypart and even video genre.
Google will sell the InVideo ads at a rate staring at $20 per thousand impressions, initially only to partner video makers. Also, the ads will only come up when the videos are played on YouTube.com.
Not surprisingly, overlay video ad pioneer VideoEgg is already crying foul! A banner on VideoEgg Inc.'s home page says the following in big bold letters:
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Google will sell the InVideo ads at a rate staring at $20 per thousand impressions, initially only to partner video makers. Also, the ads will only come up when the videos are played on YouTube.com.
Not surprisingly, overlay video ad pioneer VideoEgg is already crying foul! A banner on VideoEgg Inc.'s home page says the following in big bold letters:
"Welcome YouTube, Seriously. We invented the video overlay ad about a year ago. We are delighted that the market is finally catching on to a vital new approach to video advertising."In the announcement, YouTube did not claim to invent the video overlay ad concept. They obviously just liked it enough to steal it from VideoEgg.
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Don't forget that if YouTube is unable to make money from advertising it will simply be forced to switch to a subscription model and you will need a credit card to view the video clips.
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