Video Idea

Adsense with self produced videos

[atpalmer23]

Has anybody tried serving video content like instructional videos on a page with adsense? My idea is to produce my own short instructional videos (2-3 minutes tops) and generate a lot of traffic with this valuable free content(people pay $40 plus for these in VHS/DVD) and have adsense on that page. I would have a written summary of the content to help the adsense serve relevnt ads. I would rotate different "lessons" for repeat business.

Anyone have experience with this? Any tips.

Also Googles TOS isn't very clear about images and video clips

[cybernezumi]

I just started a site along these lines a couple days ago. I'm using Wordpress to run the site and write up a description/transcript/lesson notes/etc. for each post. The ads have been spot on already, perhaps I've been good pushing keywords for the niche. One thing I ran into was I allow users to play the videos in place or in a pop-up (as well as download them). I kinda wanted to add ads to the pop-up (especially since some users pop them up repeatedly, perhaps using more bandwidth if caching isn't working right). However since there's no text on the pop-ups there wouldn't be anything for adsense to sense. So I put some affiliate button ads under the player instead.

Since its just went up and I only have a couple videos online so far,I can't really say how well it will perform. I'm still waiting to be indexed, but I've been promoting the site by adding it to various appropriate indexes. But I have gotten my first clicks, totaling almost three bucks! ;-)

I'm planning on other revenue streams too, like offering the videos on CD & DVD when I have enough. With lots of largish files, users might later be willing to pay for the convenience over downloading them...

[Alioc]

Images and videos are content. Nothing wrong about these. As you seem to be aware of, you just have to put in some text for targeting and SEO purposes. Keep going! :)

Notice some of the leading hardware guide sites doing the same successfully since the introduction of broadband.

[humblebeginnings]

I was about to launch the same idea in this forum;-p
No really, great idea! A lot of work though, but fun to do...

[mattg3]

Is this qu thingy within TOS?

I am doing this since a couple of months. People look at the videos. ;) 28 cents from overall 37$ up to now today and that on the best way to get people to look at it, a link unit horizontal under the video navigation.

Everything else fails even more abysmally. We also have a picture database with equal PIs, which doesn't suffer from adblindness.

If you do it to make money, it will be loads of work for little ROI. I do it mostly cause I have fun doing it.

[MediaSpree]

I have had great success aligning embeded Google Video content (they allow you to emebed any video in their huge archive on your page) directly next to a 300x250 adsense block with a page of text below describing the video. Try it!

[mattg3]

I use embedded Google Videos. Didn't try the Megablocks yet though.

Could you define great success? 1% of total income, 50% of total income?