Anthology of Ideas

This is old news, but for the first time in 6 or so months I signed into my adsense account. (I wanted to make sure that money that I’ve been owed for a year hasn’t magically reached the payout mark.) I looked around a little bit, and I considered updating the Google Adsense Widget with any changes, and I stumbled upon these new YouTube ad-enabled players.

These may have been around for a year for all I know have been around since October, but I’ve never seen them and they are rather cool looking. For one, they are far more attractive than the default YouTube video box, and they have the ads embedded right into them.

EDIT: One issue with them is that Adblock bocks them, so maybe it wouldn’t be so good for “normal” videos unless they released a version with and without ads.

Right now you can only add pick general keywords and categories, but I would love for these to be usable with specific videos just for the pretty-factor.

How do I earn with video units?

When you place a video unit on your website, you’ll earn revenue from two types of ad formats: companion ads, which sit above your video content within the player and can be either text or image-based, and text overlay ads, which appear in the bottom 20% of the video content area. Ads on video units can be paid on either a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand impression basis.