Comments on: YouTube Sponsored Video How To

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:21:03 +0000

Just so we’re all on the same page,
when I got to
https://ads.youtube.com/
I was reading:
Thanks for your interest in YouTube Sponsored Videos.
At this time we only support users in the US, but rest assured we’re

working on supporting your location soon.
I’m from Canada.

By: Patrick OMalley

Patrick OMalley — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:30:07 +0000

Great article by you, but I found the product to be really, really disappointing.

Just a select few of the shortcomings:

- the description by your video CANNOT have a simple click thru to your web page (even if you use HTML)

- you view your ad, but you can’t click thru to see the video that you are showing!

- results dont make sense. The word keynote gets a position of 1.6 at a price of 51 cents, bu the words keynote speaker, which should be more rare, gets a position of 2.1 at a cost of $1.01, which means something is not being explained

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:26:20 +0000

Hi Michelle

Thanks for your update email. Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen this post as I signed into your followup late Dec

YouTube is something I’m just turning my attention to…

Kind Regards
Simon

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:12:46 +0000

Great intro Michelle.

I am testing a lot of things with this right now and I will let you know my discoveries.

I actually just created a work around that lets you automate the pausing and resuming of campaigns (since there is no way to schedule campaigns right now.)

It is done using a free add-on to firefox called iMacros. Great timesaver.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:15:58 +0000

Very cool Michelle, thanx for the heads up. Almost like back in the day when facebook dropped their ppc model…

Will definitely be interesting to see how people substitute good ad copy for good “video sales copy” – people are lazy enough when it comes to writing good ads, so it should prove to be very lucrative for those that have the saavy to produce some decent screen-cams or vids of their offers…

By: Lana

Lana — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:21:41 +0000

I’m going to try this out right away. Thanks for the walk through!

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:02:19 +0000

Hi Michelle.

Thanks for the walk through it def helped me set things up quicker

By: emELLem jOE

emELLem jOE — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:53 +0000

Thank you Michelle!

Account is setup and ready to go. Had your post open in a separate window…

Perfect step by step guideline.

By: David Chura

David Chura — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:48:08 +0000

OK I may agree with this advertising for the moment. As long as they don’t revert back to some of their hiden tactics they did before. Like making you pay extra for a key word that was enclosed in a long term keyword that you got for pennies and they don’t know your site as having any page rank so they make you pay extra ! NOt fair THIEVES all of them.

NOw I ask. How is it determind what is your cover picture? As for u tube one goes to the middle of the video and they get the picture there. I personally have a good picture I would like to use. But will these guys ban it?
Like they did with me when I found I could get clicks at 10% of the going rate. Like 6$ down to 25 cents!
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By: Alain Tanguay

Alain Tanguay — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:42:17 +0000

Wow, that was quick and as always, extremely informative and to the point.

Excellent.

Thank you Michelle.

By: Roger Hamilton

Roger Hamilton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:37:23 +0000

Looks like another place to advertise and market stuff. So far, I haven’t seen this posted on other places. Good find and easy-to-follow guide you have there!

By: Wes (MasterlessSamurai.com)

Wes (MasterlessSamurai.com) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:17:30 +0000

I’ve been trying for 2 days to submit a campaign. Everytime I submit, I get an error “We’re sorry, there was an internal error. Please try your request again.”.

There’s no help to be found…cant figure out for the life of me whats wrong.

Anyone have any ideas?

By: Janice

Janice — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:48:21 +0000

Thanks Michelle. Great video. Even I understood it! Will get on it immediately.

By: Tribute Bands

Tribute Bands — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:33:28 +0000

Hi Michelle

This is absolutely AWESOME!

I’ve been doing ‘Google Adwords’ for 6 years. I can now add YouTube to the marketing mix.

I’ve not heard about this anywhere else, you always seem to be the first person on the scene. Like a news reporter who always seems to be in the right place at the right time with ‘Breaking News!”

This is going to be HUGE!

I better jump on it now before my competitors get wind of it.

Best Wishes

John O’Hara
United Kingdom

By: Tom.L

Tom.L — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:31:06 +0000

Very informative post.How is the Youtube advertising working so far? Isn´t Adsense soon available at YouTube as well.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:04:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip Michelle. Any idea if there is a way to track keywords used in Youtube searches?

By: CFM Music Scene

CFM Music Scene — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:53:27 +0000

Thanks! You might be the smartest person I know.
Losillë
CFM Music Scene introducing fans to original, new, hot music!

By: the_zman

the_zman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:39:28 +0000

Thank you Michelle! I heard it here first, despite the many other lists I’m subscribed to.

Has anyone looked into what sort of tracking is available with youtube PPC?

By: Bali

Bali — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:15:24 +0000

Thanks for the insight.

Just to be clear, there’s no monetization to be made here right — its only money out, not adsense money in? If so, Google is gonna make a killing!

By: Miguel (the SEO guy)

Miguel (the SEO guy) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:05:06 +0000

Thanks for the info. This means more way to reach your prospects since video is in..