Comments on: YouTube Grows Ad Sales, Click-to-Buy http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/youtube-grows-ad-sales-click-to-buy.html Internet Marketing News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:43:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patrick OMalley http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/youtube-grows-ad-sales-click-to-buy.html/comment-page-1#comment-71686 Patrick OMalley Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:08:40 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9573#comment-71686 YouTube is a really BAD place for most people to advertise. I wasted some money there, and will write a blog post about it eventually, but here are some of the major problems with it: - the videos are shown in "low quality" by YouTube. Users have to press the HQ button to get higher quality, and a lot of people don't even know the button is there - you can't have people click from the video to your web page. YouTube only allows videos to click to other videos, and if you put a clickable link in your text description, they can only click through if they click Open to get a more detailed description - there are very few useful statistics, like how long people watched the video, so it isn't easy to make adjustments <a href="http://www.patrickomalley.com" rel="nofollow">Pat O'Malley</a> YouTube is a really BAD place for most people to advertise. I wasted some money there, and will write a blog post about it eventually, but here are some of the major problems with it:

- the videos are shown in “low quality” by YouTube. Users have to press the HQ button to get higher quality, and a lot of people don’t even know the button is there
- you can’t have people click from the video to your web page. YouTube only allows videos to click to other videos, and if you put a clickable link in your text description, they can only click through if they click Open to get a more detailed description
- there are very few useful statistics, like how long people watched the video, so it isn’t easy to make adjustments

Pat O’Malley

]]> By: Glen http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/youtube-grows-ad-sales-click-to-buy.html/comment-page-1#comment-71646 Glen Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:47:18 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9573#comment-71646 I've often thought about adding YouTube video ad blocks to my sites but I think they are just to big and chunky to blend in. Maybe that's why they are not doing so well. With regular google ads, you can make then seem as if they are part of your site. I’ve often thought about adding YouTube video ad blocks to my sites but I think they are just to big and chunky to blend in. Maybe that’s why they are not doing so well. With regular google ads, you can make then seem as if they are part of your site.

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