YouTube player to include Adsense

There are reports from all over the Internet that people have seen an Adsense page on YouTube stating that soon you will be able to sign up and create a custom player for video content that will contain Adsense links. The page for this is reported as being here, yet for some reason the page redirects to the member page.

It does load for a second though, so you can actually see it. What does this mean? Well it appears that Google has pulled the page from view shortly after it went live. Maybe it was launched too early and we’re not supposed to have seen it. Maybe Google has had a rethink entirely at the prospect of earning Ad revenue off potentially copyrighted videos.

Whatever the reason it’s not live on the YouTube site at present.

The big question of course is what would this mean for affiliates and publisher websites if this does happen, as clearly Google had intended at some point? The option of choosing and customising a video player for your website to display content and then earn revenue from it seems too good to be true – especially if the video content is automatically selected based on the content of your website.

How would the revenue model work as well? Would it be Adsense style text links within the video player framework that relies on a click through to earn commission? Or better yet; an earnings-per-play system whereby you earn commission every time a visitor to your website watches a clip. The second option is by far more enticing from my point of view, especially if you owned a movie website and clips from the film were displayed via YouTube. The traffic viewing the clips would be highly targeted, making for some very high conversion rates.

Darren
Affiliate Marketing

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