Using Youtube and Google Adsense
November 22, 2007
Stumble it!There is always a discussion if using Youtube and Adsense it means that you are using this videos as commercial which is against Youtube TOS.
From Youtube FAQ:
What kinds of commercial uses of the YouTube website are prohibited, and which aren’t?
We’ve recently updated our Terms of Use to clarify what kinds of uses of the website and the YouTube Embeddable Player are permitted. We don’t want to discourage you from putting the occasional YouTube video in your blog to comment on it or show your readers a video you like, even if you have general purpose ads somewhere on your blog. We will, however, enforce our Terms of Use against, say, a website that does nothing more than aggregate a bunch of embedded YouTube videos and intentionally tries to generate ad revenue from them.
So, if the main content of your blog / website is youtube vids, with little added value, and you’re making revenue from them, that’s against the TOS. If you use their vids to enhance your content occasionally, then that should be fine.
Remember, although youtube videos allow you to create great content quickly, it will not be original, it’s the content around those videos that will get you ranked, then hopefully more people will link to your great content because it has been enhanced by the videos.
To use Adsense in your Video Blog or any posts with any youtube video you should create content first and then add the video as an “Extra” of your content.
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November 23rd, 2007 at 2:38 am
Google’s policy makes perfect sense since they’re the one’s paying the bandwidth and server usage bill, in the “backend” — they should be getting the moolah too!
Then again, as the TOS implies, it really depends on the implementation and how much “real value” the publisher add to the YouTube video content.
To the best of my knowledge, hard “original” work, good measure, common sense and fair play are all AdSense-friendly.