十月 10th 2008 | 作者 Jack |
相信有再寫部落格的人一定對於Google廣告不陌生,這好歹也是個賺錢的小工具,雖然有時候賺的還挺辛苦的。過去,Google廣告多是出現在Google本身的搜尋結果頁面以及一般的部落格中,然而就在最近,Google將廣告版面已經悄悄地置入YouTube以及Google map中,看來Google正在積極地拓展他廣告的版圖…
前幾天,YouTube在影片的下方,置入了”Download This Song”的按鈕,當然不是免費下載,Google稱之為”Click-to-buy” ,連結到amazon以及iTune的商店進行歌曲的購買,想想看,光是放上購買按鈕就有可能位YouTube帶來豐厚的利潤,Google的官方部落格中寫道:
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. 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, comment on, and respond to videos quickly and easily, now users can click-to-buy products — like songs and video games — related to the content they’re watching on the site. We’re getting started by embedding iTunes and Amazon.com links on videos from companies like EMI Music, and providing Amazon.com product links to the newly-released video game Spore(TM) on videos from Electronic Arts.
This is just the beginning of building a broad, viable e-commerce platform for users and partners on YouTube. Our vision is to help partners across all industries — from music, to film, to print, to TV — offer useful and relevant products to a large, yet targeted audience, and generate additional revenue from their content on YouTube beyond the advertising we serve against their videos. And those partners who use our content identification and management system can also enable these links on user-generated content, by using Content ID to claim videos and choose to leave them up on the site.

是的,Google不僅僅止於賣歌曲而已,這也不是Google的本業,一直以來,Google都是在”媒合”資訊,媒合合作廠商以及終端消費者,在各式各樣的Google平台上做起生意,然後Google從中獲取利潤,這也是為什麼我們都能免費使用許多Google的產品與服務。
除了YouTube外,Google Map也被放置了廣告,當我們搜尋商家資訊時,相關的廣告就會以文字的方式出現在地圖的下方,比較可惜的是呈現的方式,若是能將廣告店家的資訊直接嵌入地圖中,應該是更直覺更顯眼吧,只是這麼一來,就有違背Google搜尋的原則,也就是”不販賣搜尋結果”。

也許是最近的景氣真的不太好,Google頻頻的動作顯示他們將要大力的拓展廣告版圖,讓更多的Google服務中嵌入更多的廣告,讓Google繼續成長茁壯。筆者在想,從影片到地圖,也許下一個Google可以發展的是Gphone這個平台,在手機的使用過程中,也許依照短訊的內容(如果沒有隱私問題的話)或者所在的位置,適度地安插相關的廣告,必定能帶來更多的收入,亦或者能讓Gphone的使用者也能分一杯羹,選擇收看廣告的同時還能賺錢,創造三贏的局面就更好了。
Google賺錢相當厲害,本期數位周刊是有寫到Google跟微軟比較,賺錢效率很好,每員工的貢獻度比微軟高…