Google TV Articles

Google's Official Reference Guide for Video Sitemaps

Last month, I interviewed Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, on the subject of Google Video Sitemaps.  Matt told us that Google was starting to take a much closer look at video sitemaps and he advised that all video publishers begin to explore video sitemaps.  Today, ...

YouTube Launches Leanback - A Mouse-Free Interface for Internet-Ready Television

I wrote back in May about YouTube's announced Leanback interface—designed to help you seamlessly shift to watching YouTube content on your television.  It was a relatively detail-free announcement, as I recall, but on the heels of the Google TV notice, it was definitely intriguing.

Google: To All Video Publishers - Get Your Google Video Sitemaps Ready

Last week, at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer and head of Google's web spam team.  Matt is a well-known figure in the SEO community and often advises the public on how to get better visibility ...

Google Launches TV Ads Online Beta - Youtube Shows

Google TV Ads now lets anyone reach television viewers, provided they are watching that television online. The new program allows you to place video ads during the commercial breaks of the show. It works in the same way as Google TV Ads: advertisers can target ...

PixelFish Emerges As Top Provider for Video Ads In Google TV

PixelFish, a leading provider of affordable and effective video production capabilities and video ad solutions, has emerged as the top choice of advertisers looking for a specialist to produce their ad for Google TV Ads. Nine months after the launch of the Ad Creation Marketplace ...

Distribution Deals Help Google Increase TV Ad Inventory

As of September Google has been selling time through Google TV Adwords for NBC advertising inventory. The announcement was made on September 24th on the Google offline ads blog. Again they've made another deal, this time with Bloomberg TV. Starting November 6th Google started allowing ...