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08.22.07

Briefly: GooTube’s ad-model is more of the same advertising, google, media, mobile, video, youtube | Comments
If you haven't noticed yet, YouTube has finally gotten around to a scalable business model with ads now appearing during some videos. The unobtrusive overlays reserve ten seconds of time 15 seconds into a clip. My favorite part of my source article was the findings of Google's market research: YouTube has spent months testing different ad formats ... It found that viewers abandon videos that include pre-roll ads at a rate of more that 70%, so it ditched pre-roll commercials. Pre-rolls are those nasty ads that you are forced to watch -- in full -- before accessing any content. ...
07.12.07

Facebook users do not understand applications applications, facebook, techcrunch, users, youtube | Comments
Head on over to the petition to remove Trakzor from Facebook. Currently it is "signed" by over 2300 people. What I find interesting for developers is that many users still do not understand that applications are third-party. Some comments of interest: This is looking more and more like the comments on YouTube: Finally, there is some sensibility: This should remind the TechCrunch 53651 that you shouldn't assume your users know what you know; that means they can and do plead ignorance.

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