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YouTube’s new revenue model: affiliate links?

Started by Duncan Riley · 9 months ago

YouTube has announced Click-to-Buy on YouTube, a new service that allows users to buy songs or related content they hear or see in YouTube clips.
Click-to-buy links are placed on the viewing page beneath the video with the other community features. YouTube is starting with links to iTunes an ... Continue reading »

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Pat Hawks
9 months ago

What I find interesting is the message this seems to send to users.
What am I supposed to think when I upload 9 music videos, which belong to YouTube partners, and they get affiliate links and ads and everything, but the 10th video I upload belongs to a music label that is not a YouTube partner and I get banned?

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Randy O
9 months ago

Well I was hoping to beat YouTube to the punch on making an announcement. I have been developing this on my site http://NowScene.com. It seemed only logical for YouTube which is now becoming the place for artists to get exposure, to incorporate links for people to purchase MP3s. I show a link to Amazon next to every live music video I display. Works pretty well. But because the video title also contains location information. I inform my customers to click the link then remove any extra text from the artist information for better results. But I will make improvements in the future.

More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.

-Randy O
Founder http://NowScene.com

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Andrew
9 months ago

What I find interesting is that they can place affiliate links to purchase music in content, but there's too much content for copyrighted material to be policed for removal, etc?

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