Comments on: Google monetizes YouTube http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13121 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marc Cohen http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13121/comment-page-1#comment-167856 Marc Cohen Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:31:21 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13121#comment-167856 I don't understand why a video ad format makes people think phone. How much time do people spend looking at their phone? The notion that there is enough time spent watching a phone screen that video ads could fund a free Google phone service is poorly thought out. Check out the Ad-Supported Music Central blog: http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/ I don’t understand why a video ad format makes people think phone. How much time do people spend looking at their phone? The notion that there is enough time spent watching a phone screen that video ads could fund a free Google phone service is poorly thought out.

Check out the Ad-Supported Music Central blog:
http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13121/comment-page-1#comment-167628 Reader's Write Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:49:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13121#comment-167628 Quote: Shiva Rajaraman, product manager for YouTube, said internal tests show more than 70 percent of people give up when they see a pre-roll. By contrast, less than 10 percent decide to close an overlay, which they can exit by clicking on an "X" in a corner. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070822/D8R626LG0.html Looks like it's gonna be a hard sell as most YouTubers are there to dodge the ads at other sites. I think they will wind up losing some of their appeal with this advertising. Quote:

Shiva Rajaraman, product manager for YouTube, said internal tests show more than 70 percent of people give up when they see a pre-roll. By contrast, less than 10 percent decide to close an overlay, which they can exit by clicking on an “X” in a corner.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070822/D8R626LG0.html

Looks like it’s gonna be a hard sell as most YouTubers are there to dodge the ads at other sites. I think they will wind up losing some of their appeal with this advertising.

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