Google AdWords is Google’s main advertising product and main source of revenue. Google’s total advertising revenues were USD$28 billion in 2010. AdWords offers pay-per-click, i.e, cost-per-click (CPC) advertising, cost-per-thousand-impressions or cost-per-mille (CPM) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for text, banner, and rich-media ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google’s text advertisements are short, consisting o...
Welcome to Part 4 of our Social Video Blueprint series. In Part 3, we talked about how the age of social media is causing brands to be more concerned with views than with old-school impressions, at least as a measure of engagement or campaign success. ...
YouTube is known for its ability to generate massive amounts of internal links through annotations, video responses, etc. But thanks to YouTube's Clickable Call To Action (CTA), users can now drive traffic from their video to the external URL of their choice for as cheap ...
It's not so often we get to talk about AdWords here at ReelSEO, but I keep a keen eye on their blog because tidbits of fascinatingly shiny news pop up now and again....oooh shiny! Anyway, I just saw a post from yesterday that said they ...
The latest rumors coming out of The Wrap suggest that YouTube's new movie rental service (one of the worst-kept secrets of the web) is being held up by two or three Hollywood studios that have yet to ink a deal with the video giant. The ...
It's not really video, in fact, I couldn't even find a category for it here, but it's interesting as even Google AdWords sees the value of both user recommendations (Like, retweet, thumbs up) and gamification (bringing game elements into non-gaming life, in this case assigning ...
It's been quite some time since Google Adwords starting looking at new ad formats via their AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative, well it seems like it is paying off as just last Thursday they announced a whole new ad format called Media Ads. The initiative ...
YouTube, like their parent company, has some pretty slick programming applications. The most impressive, in my opinion, is Content ID. Content ID monitors uploaded video and alerts copyright holders whenever copyrighted video content is used illegally - automatically. At that point, the copyright holder can ...
Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney is again doing some prognosticating about the profitability of YouTube according to a new report he's due to put out today. Back in January when he did this I posted a reply that I think YouTube would hit $2B this year ...
It's that time once again to head into San Diego and check out what's new and exciting in the world of online marketing with the 2011 Online Marketing Summit. The speaker list reads like a who's who in online marketing. Heck, even I recognize some ...
There's a pretty good chance you've used Adwords before to help market your business. Millions of businesses have done so. And with good reason--search traffic can be some of the most valuable traffic you can get. Because there are so many Google users, placing an ...
The European Union believes that Google has been up to some underhanded and generally illegal business practices in its SEO and paid search practices. I thought that since I'm in the EU, I might be able to shed some light on that. Really, I just ...
Last week, Google quietly rolled out a new kind of search ad—called Google Boost. Boost is intended to be used for locally-focused businesses that want an easy, pain-free way to get some added exposure when local searches are performed.
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson interview Google Product Manager Jay Akkad, about today's public announcement of the expansion of their popular online video advertising program, Promoted Videos, and how it will great expand targeting, reach, tracking, performance, and monetization for search marketers and advertisers at large.
Google is celebrating their 12th birthday during the month of September, and today they have placed a little birthday cake logo on their home page—it was on this date, September 27, in 1998 that Google was first incorporated as a privately held company.
If you care about how well your content--video included--ranks in Google's search results, you probably try to pay attention to the many Google announcements related to their products and services. But with so many products and services--and tons of specialized Google product blogs--it can be ...
List of Video Search Engines and Video Search Web Sites
Places To Find High Definition (HD) Videos Online
List of Video Sharing Web Sites and Destination Sites Like YouTube - Share Your Videos
The Definitive Video SEO Guide: SEO Tips & Tutorials for Video
What's The Optimal Bitrate for Encoding YouTube Uploads?
Nifty YouTube Marketing Tip: Secret URL for Automatic Channel-Subscription
Why Adobe Really Dropped Their Mobile Flash Support
The Basics of Web Video File Formats and Video Containers
How Much Money Do YouTube Partners Make? We Might Be Able To Do The Math
How To Record Skype Video – Skype Video Call Recording Tools
