With the addition of You Tube advertising, webmasters can now place video as well as text and banner units on their sites. Just like all of the Adsense contextual advertising units, the video units are customizable and can be modified to fit the look and feel of a webmaster's site. Adding video advertising to a website translates into more income generated when viewers click on the companion advertising being served by Google. The text or image advertising is displayed at the top of the video unit, and can also come in the form of text overlay ads that appear at the bottom of the video screen. Just like all of Google's contextual advertising units, video units are related to the sites content and the payments are made to the webmaster based on either the Cost per Click or Cost-Per-Thousand (M, Roman for 1000) model.



Video advertising can be added three different ways: using Google's content categories, choosing individual content providers or by accepting automatically targeted video which is contextual much the same way text link units and content units are placed - through keyword or keyword phrase content on the website.

With the addition of video units called widgets, a website is simple. The webmaster copies the code for a specific video unit onto the website either in a widget or into the website's template. Adsense Help Center gives step-by-step instructions on how-to do it and you can also check in the Google Adsense blog for any updates or tips and techniques to maximize the YouTube presentation on your site.

Most industry experts feel that the addition of You Tube video units has great potential. This forecast is based upon a few factors. Google Adsense's network of publishers and advertisers is already in place. You Tube has become almost universal for embedding video into outside websites through the use of adding codes to templates or through various widgets. This means that it is something that is already familiar to most marketers on the net. For publishers already familiar with Adsense, this offers another avenue of significant income. Google intends to share the revenue gained with both webmasters and content providers alike.

As of today, there are already more than 100 content providers affiliated with You Tube taking advantage of the video program.

Website publishers also see the tremendous potential that adding video advertising to their Adsense portfolio because they know the power of video when it comes to viewer attention. The program is considered a win-win for all involved. The key to the success will fall in the level of relevance the video feeds provide when dealing with different content on websites.

With the addition of You Tube advertising, webmasters can now place video as well as text and banner units on their sites. Just like all of the Adsense contextual advertising units, the video units are customizable and can be modified to fit the look and feel of a webmaster's site. Adding video advertising to a website translates into more income generated when viewers click on the companion advertising being served by Google. The text or image advertising is displayed at the top of the video unit, and can also come in the form of text overlay ads that appear at the bottom of the video screen. Just like all of Google's contextual advertising units, video units are related to the sites content and the payments are made to the webmaster based on either the Cost per Click or Cost-Per-Thousand (M, Roman for 1000) model........