Google AdWords, the advertising service provided by Google, will be expanding to YouTube. The new service will make it easier for advertisers to post their ads beside specific videos. Tech-savvy advertisers were already able to make that happen, but the system has now been upgraded to be more user-friendly. It works according to a cost-per-view system: the advertiser pays each time someone watches the video. Advertisements will be increasingly relevant to the content of the video clips. Marketers enjoy the relevance, since targeting is now even simpler. It has also become easier to reach specific target groups. Advertisers can specify who sees the advertisement, linking the ad to e.g. key words, topics, specific groups and interests.
Google also makes it possible to reach and continue reaching Internet users who have visited a site, even after they move on to other sites. E.g. via banners. The concept is known as remarketing. It works more or less the same as tracking cookies (see the news on the previous page).
This service is now also available on YouTube. As a result, companies can show (or have others show) advertisements to everyone who visited the advertiser’s brand channel on YouTube. Or to the people who clicked on their ad on the YouTube homepage. One-on-one advertising, in other words. Behavioural targeting is constantly being developed. Marketers are increasingly able to find our digital footprints. However, they are encountering the new, stricter regulations from the Telecommunications Act. Use of these types of ‘tracking cookie-like’ techniques requires unambiguous consent from the Internet user, unless it can be proven that no personal data is collected.
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Google AdWords, the advertising service provided by Google, will be expanding to YouTube. The new service will make it easier for advertisers to post their ads beside specific videos. Tech-savvy advertisers were already able to make that happen, but the system has now been upgraded to be more user-friendly. It works according to a cost-per-view system: the advertiser pays each time someone watches the video. Advertisements will be increasingly relevant to the content of the video clips. Marketers enjoy the relevance, since targeting is now even simpler. It has also become easier to reach specific target groups. Advertisers can specify who sees the advertisement, linking the ad to e.g. key words, topics, specific groups and interests.
Google also makes it possible to reach and continue reaching Internet users who have visited a site, even after they move on to other sites. E.g. via banners. The concept is known as remarketing. It works more or less the same as tracking cookies (see the news on the previous page).
This service is now also available on YouTube. As a result, companies can show (or have others show) advertisements to everyone who visited the advertiser’s brand channel on YouTube. Or to the people who clicked on their ad on the YouTube homepage. One-on-one advertising, in other words. Behavioural targeting is constantly being developed. Marketers are increasingly able to find our digital footprints. However, they are encountering the new, stricter regulations from the Telecommunications Act. Use of these types of ‘tracking cookie-like’ techniques requires unambiguous consent from the Internet user, unless it can be proven that no personal data is collected.
Daan van Eek