YouTube: Google To Sell Games And Music Through YouTube

Posted by Shel in Google on October 8, 2008 9:00 am / no comments

Google will be addingÃ‚Â ”click-to-buy” links onto YouTube videos that feature music or video games. Not just music and games though, now in the YouTube community features section of a YouTube video, you’ll find links to purchase movies and books as well. Ã‚Â

The links will send you to iTunes and or Amazon for purchase, Google will be getting it’s share of that revenue you provide.Ã‚Â

This is just the beginning of building a broad, viable eCommerce platform for users and partners on YouTube. Our vision is to help partners across all industries — from music, to film, to print, to TV — offer useful and relevant products to a large, yet targeted audience, and generate additional revenue from their content on YouTube beyond the advertising we serve against their videos. And those partners who use our content identification and management system can also enable these links on user-generated content, by using Content ID to claim videos and choose to leave them up on the site.

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