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When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it.  ...
Official Google Blog: I clicked to buy and I liked it
googleblog.blogspot.com — When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it ... (more) Official Google Blog: I clicked to buy and I liked it
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Youtube Audio Preview
blag.xkcd.com — Wow. It seems someone at YouTUBE took this comic seriously and decided to add an “Audio Preview” feature. Now you can hear your comments read aloud to you. Of course, it’s an optional button using speech synth rather than a ... (more) Youtube Audio Preview
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YouTube faz dinheiro: novos botões clique-para-comprar na iTunes Store e na Amazon
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... , Larry Page e Sergey Brin sabiam que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, aquele investimento daria um retorno. Implementar anúncios do Google AdSense foi algo mais do que óbvio/esperado mas, a partir de hoje, quem estiver nos Estados Unidos também poderá comprar conteúdos digitais na iTunes Store e/ou na Amazon via links de e-commerce no YouTube. ...

Buy Stuff “As Seen On YouTube” with New Click-to-Buy Platform
Mashable! — ... How many times did you see a YouTube video and you just had to buy a product or a service related to the video? Ok, never. But still, if you want to spend your hard earned cash in these times of looming recession, now you can do it directly from YouTube. ...

YouTube’s new revenue model: affiliate links?
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... 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. ...

YouTube Adds eCommerce - Video Advertising’s Future?
SitePoint — ... YouTube announced this evening a new money-making endeavor called Click-to-Buy that puts shopping links below some partner videos. Launch partners for the new program are EMI, who are putting links to AmazonMP3 and iTunes below some of their music videos, and Electronic Arts, who are putting links to Amazon below game videos for the new Spore video game. ...

YouTube Offers Up Click-to-Buy Service on Video
(Obsolete Feed) — ... This Click-to-Buy service will be implemented on thousands of YouTube videos made available by the company’s content partners. This comes by way of unobtrusive retail links that will be displayed beneath the video along with the other YouTube community features. The Click-to-Buy links will enable users to buy products including songs, books and movies which are related to the video they are watching. ...

YouTube to sell games and music in an effort to boost revenue
Boy Genius Report — As if Google-owned YouTube wasn’t making enough money in ad revenue, they’ve decided to start peddling music and games for a little monetary boost. For now, it’s an experimental project and they’ll be attempting to sell music, videos, TV shows… wait, iTunes, anyone? Actually, it seems YouTube will be partner with iTunes and Amazon so that YouTube users will be able to clink on links that will take them directly to the iTunes or Amazon store where they can purchase all those goodies including video games and e-books. Google acquired ...

Paying for YouTube? Sort of.
Today @ PC World — ... b_YouTube_buyline.jpg YouTube announced yesterday that it is partnering with Electronic Arts, EMI Music, iTunes, and Amazon to deliver "click-to-buy" links for music, movies, and books beneath YouTube videos. b_clickbuy2.jpg Say you are listening to "I Kissed A Girl" on YouTube and want to buy it. The site now provides links to purchase the song on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Companies are not limited to their own videos, either; commercial partners can embed their links beneath any user-generated video as well. The links are relatively unobtrusive; at first glance I barely ...

Google's YouTube: Finally, A Way To Make Money
TechWeb — ... is for those who make quality videos with commercial prospects; a significant portion of YouTube videos are not what advertisers want to be associated with. "Today, we're taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding 'click-to-buy' links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos," YouTube said on its Web site. "Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features." So along with rating, sharing, and commenting on videos, ...

Google's YouTube: Finally, A Way To Make Money
InformationWeek - All Stories — ... is for those who make quality videos with commercial prospects; a significant portion of YouTube videos are not what advertisers want to be associated with. "Today, we're taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding 'click-to-buy' links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos," YouTube said on its Web site. "Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features." So along with rating, sharing, and commenting on videos, ...

News: Mix: Hudson, YouTube + iTunes, South Park
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — ... ] YouTube has begun adding links to the iTunes Store from select music videos. The links can be found below the video and sharing features but above the comments, as seen on the ...

YouTube Click To Buy Links and iTunes
TheAppleBlog — [image] Yesterday the YouTube team announced via their blog that they would begin incorporating “click-to-buy” links which direct users to iTunes or Amazon.com alongside videos of select YouTube partners.  According to the blog, the links are intended to help scratch that “I love this song/game, I wish I could buy it right now!” itch that viewers tend to get when viewing streaming content. Should users really dig the new in-game video for “Spore”, for instance (and not be too put off by the ...

iTunes, Amazon MP3 come to YouTube (in theory)
MacUser — So theoretically, YouTube now allows purchasing of EMI and Universal tracks via iTunes or Amazon. The idea is that if you're watching a video with a music track, you'll be able to easily download that song from either one of those stores. Sounds simple enough, right? Except for the life of me, I can't figure out how to test this out. The YouTube blog says: Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, ...

New Technology Brings New Models of Content Distribution
The ArtLab — ... This is similar to YouTube's "click to buy" feature except that the MySpace/MTV/Auditude solution is--for lack of a better term-- ...

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