In its continuing effort to find a way to make money from its YouTube unit, Google introduced on Tuesday a type of e-commerce ad that YouTube users can click to buy digital goods from Apple’s iTunes or Amazon.com.Under the new program, viewers of a video with a music track, for example, would be able to click on an icon to download that song from one of the two music stores.
http://nytimes.com/2008/10/08/technology/internet/08youtube.htmlYouTube to sell music and games [Reuters]
YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing site, will start to sell music and video games and experiment with new advertising formats to grow revenue, executives said today.The Google-owned business is taking the first steps toward building an e-commerce service through which it will sell music, films, TV shows, video games, books, concert tickets and other media-related products featured on the millions of videos on YouTube.
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