Forbes and Silicon Alley Insider have insight into YouTube’s revenue.
A quick overview:
Google may be making $200 million from YouTube this year and $350 million next year.
A front page ad on YouTube goes for about $175,000 per day plus a commitment to spend at least $50,000 more on YouTube or Google.
A branded YouTube channel goes for […]
Early this week Google announced third-party display ad tags will now be possible for image ads running through AdSense/AdWords. This should boost CPM rates for publishers as the “qualified” third-parties are likely to be more sophisticated advertisers with larger budgets; the extra volume will help put pressure on ad rates too.
Here’s the email they sent […]
We’ve all seen the plethora of reports and headlines about the video ad business over the past few years. The IAB continues their efforts to help us all face the right direction. That’s cool because bumping into awkward ad sizes just isn’t what it once was (hey man, the animated gif eye sore […]
Hybrids aren’t the only new thing at General Motors. GM is shifting gears in a big way. Last year it spent $197 million in online display advertising… and now it plans to spend $1.5 billion on digital and one-to-one marketing, of its $3B budget, over the next three years.
There is more here…
Consumers looking to buy […]
I was invited to try out Google’s beta for TV advertising yesterday. The term AdWords does not really fit here/anymore, but we’ll look past that for the moment. It looks like you cannot target to local TV at this point. It does seems like this would work okay for cable TV advertising. […]
The popular mainstream blog, AllThingsD, has posted a note drawing attention to the use of tracking cookies on its website. I think AllThingsD is a model for how mainstreaming media (in their case, The Wall Street Journal) can enter the blogosphere and maintain a balance between the blogger vibe and that of traditional media. […]
And the sleeping giant in the room keeps getting bigger. Some people jumped in long ago. Some more recently. Some must be waiting until they see $100B. Anyway you slice it… the Internet is not your fathers Internet any more (as if that makes sense; hey remember those Oldsmobile cars…didn’t think […]
Top 10 Online Current Events and Global News Destinations
Brand or Channel
Unique Audience (000)
Active Reach (%)
Yahoo! News
17,881
13.28
CNN Digital Network
15,018
11.15
MSNBC Digital Network
13,483
10.01
AOL News
11,663
8.66
NYTimes.com
7,142
5.3
Tribune Newspapers
6,058
4.5
Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division
4,973
3.69
Google News
4,419
3.28
USATODAY.com
3,986
2.96
washingtonpost.com
3,612
2.68
Source: Nielsen Online, NetView Week ending Nov 18, 2007 US, Home and Work
Top Ad Sizes
Dimensions
Impressions (000)
Share of all Impressions
Non-Standard Dimension
25,150
61.8%
Leaderboard
(728×90)
3,599
8.8%
Medium Rectangle
(300×250)
2,951
7.2%
Square Button
(125×125)
2,788
6.8%
Large Rectangle
(336×280)
2,215
5.4%
Button #1
(120×90)
1,635
4.0%
Wide Skyscraper
(160×600)
1,221
3.0%
Button #2
(120×60)
339
0.8%
Rectangle
(180×150)
299
0.7%
Skyscraper
(120×600)
187
0.5%
Full Banner
(468×60)
163
0.4%
Micro […]
So Facebook puts a tracking beacon on its site that gives it information about its users to others. And, people don’t like it. For a site that should be all about the User, this is a sizable PR ooops. To be fair, this beacon stuff isn’t unique to Facebook. I wish […]
More @ IAB: Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 ’07 Surpass $5.2 Billion, Setting New High
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) announced that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over […]
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