YouTube Now Selling Ads Against 9% of U.S. Video ViewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 8, 2009 - 10:01am.
New York - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube
is now selling ads against "hundreds of millions of views" every
month, representing 9% of all U.S.
video views at the site, up from 6% a year ago, the company told AdAge.com. A
YouTube spokesman told AdAge the site is actually placing ads against more
videos than its nearest competitor -- MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media --
has total video views.The rise comes in part due to the proliferation of big-name media content through deals hashed out with CBS, MGM and Disney, but YouTube downplays this factor. "We're not saying we don't want [content deals with big-name media partners]; we're very proud of our agreement with Disney. But we aren't hinging our strategy around it. If it's great for our users, it happens to be good for monetization as well," Shishir Mehrotra, director of product management at YouTube, told AdAge.com.
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