Yahoo is experimenting pay per click advertising when you search for images. The Sunnyvale company was already displaying advertising in Yahoo videos and also in Yahoo answers and I noticed this new strategy last week during an image search.

It’s not strange that pay per click advertising can be part of the image search because a lot of people search for images and videos more and more frequently.

Yahoo Pay per click advertising in image search is also segmented according to the kind of images you are looking for. If you are search for beaches, hotels or vacations, you will see all that kind of advertising in the right side and also in the bottom of the page.

These images show you in the red boxes Yahoo pay per click advertising when you try an image search.

This week YouTube has just released in beta version its new program to upload 1GB videos. Several YouTube users were already using this new alternative that will be available now for all Tubers.

This new YouTube alternative offers one of the best solutions in the video market improving by far YouTube service. Just login into your account and click in the alternative link to use the new software and use this new feature to upload your videos. There are many advantages using the new YouTube interface:

• Now you will be able to add meta tags to write: title, description and labels, as you do in your web pages to improve your video ranking in YouTube and the Internet.
• You will have the chance to upload simultaneously up to 10 videos, and the best feature,
• The file size limit for upload videos has been raised from 100MB to 1GB. allowing you practically to upload a whole film.

The next image shows you the screen that you will see when you try this new feature. You can write all the video information while this one is uploaded.

Via: YouTube Blog

YouTube new features. Now offers translation in video descriptions.

YouTube is now offering (or at least experimenting) translation in video descriptions, this new feature helps you to improve your online presence because more people in different languages and countries will know what your videos are for, and with the latest Close Caption function that YouTube has just implemented, you will have a powerful tool to attract more visitors to watch your videos and improve your online visibility around the globe.

Take a look at the next image. Using (a) the English interface, I made a search on YouTube for the term (b) “Publicidad en Internet”, a Spanish phrase that means “Internet Advertising”, as you can see in YouTube search results, you have 2 options where you can select:
(1) Check box to translate automatically all the video descriptions in result pages, or
(2) Click individually each video description to make the translation into your native language.

This second image shows the results after clicking the first check box to translate all the video descriptions in the search results.

As you can see, YouTube is building more powerful tools that are turning a video in a better way to improve your online visibility, and with more than 250 million monthly visitors, YouTube is becoming an excellent tool for your multilingual internet marketing strategies that you can use in your behalf.

Service isn’t still available for all YouTube sites around the world, but you can use it in French, Italian and some more.

Now you can subtitle YouTube videos with this new function available in more than 120 languages, thus you will improve traffic generation for your videos or your Web pages.

YouTube has added to a new feature with close caption that allows to the spectators one better understanding of the videos in different languages. The subtitles can help people understand the original audio language, for people who speak certain languages or people who do not have the capacity to listen.

In order to add subtitles to your videos, it is necessary to upload a subtitle file at “Titles and Subtitles” menu of the edition page. Also in order to add several subtitles to a video, it is necessary loading several files. If you wish to include foreign subtitles in several languages, you must upload a separated file for each language. There are more than 120 languages to choose and you can add as many subtitles as you wish for each video.

If a video is CC close captioned, you can activate this new feature clicking the button of menu located in the right inferior part of the video player. When doing click in this button it will allows to the spectator to choose the subtitles that he or she wishes to see.

Some of the YouTube Partners are already have begun to use the subtitles to offer one better understanding of the videos, even with audio off. Click in the following links to you see its operation.

BBC Worldwide: captions are provided in five different languages on this clip from Top Gear.
CNET: tech product reviews from CNET’s Crave blog.
UC Berkeley: footage from the Opencast Project Open House.
MIT: full lectures on subjects like Physics.
Gonzodoga: English subtitles on this awesome Japanese animation.

This is a sample of Japanese animation video with subtitles in English language.

Source: YouTube Blog

Who is winning online elections 2008? BarackObama.com Vs JohnMcCain.com

This is a simple traffic comparison between the 2 candidate’s websites, I have used 2 free internet tools to see the online elections 2008 trends.

Let’s see the first chart from alexa.com

BarackObama.com simply has much more traffic than JohnMcCain.com; You can click over the graphic and go directly to Alexa.com and see updated results, just add Barack Obama site and make the comparison.

Google Trends is also a free internet tool that allows make comparisons between websites or phrases. The first graphic shows how BarackObama.com defeats JohnMcCain.com in search volume during the last 12 months, and you can see also how news references are greater also for BarackObama.com

Which US states are searching more for Barack Obama or John McCain?

You can see in real time the previous results, just click over the next graphic and you will be redirected to Google Trends, where you will see updated data.

The facts are really clear, BarackObama.com is dominating the online US scene. Both trends reflects the same results.

Elections are coming, how much do you know about the 2 presidential candidates? How deep are you involved with online elections? Have you seen candidate’s websites or YouTube channels?

Elections 2008. Presidential candidates on Google and YouTube mobile.

US Elections became more alive than ever, Google & YouTube are offering interesting mobile tools that put elections 2008 presidential candidates at your finger tips. These little tools offer you access on your mobile device to the relevant content for both presidential candidates.

Google mobile provides McCain and Obama search results, elections 2008 news, political blogs using Google Reader, and Maps to find your way around the convention cities.

Google Mobile is also provides links to YouTube Mobile, where you will have access to McCain and Obama YouTube channels and all the videos used in the presidential run.

Try them, this is the link to access election 2008 in Google mobile and YouTube mobile.

This is the list of the ten most wanted women on YouTube videos. July 2008

# - Singer - YouTube queries
1 - Mariah carey ——-1,002,282
2 - Miley cyrus ———– 767,499
3 - Leona lewis ——— 327,290
4 - Alicia keys ———– 257,646
5 - Rihanna ————- 206,716
6 - Christina aguilera - 155,929
7 - Shakira ————— 155,115
8 - Beyonce ————- 152,688
9 - Avril lavigne ——— 117,583
10-Janet jackson ——– 91,946

The next graphic shows better details.

Take a look at the meteoric ascension of the beautiful Leona Lewis since the beginning of the year.

Month Queries
Jan —– 4,724
Feb —– 9,823
Mar — 20,790
Apr — 149,698
May — 171,227
Jun — 249,271
Jul — 327,290

Once again the graphic shows better details.

We are talking about videos, I can not finish the post without them. Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis & Alicia Keys. Enjoy them !

Internet speed tests in different countries. Do you know what country has the fastest internet connection? Netherlands, Israel, UK, USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, France, Spain, India, Brazil or China.

ClickTale collected and analyzed data from over 1 million visitors during the months of May and June 2008, they measured Internet speeds using the average page loading speeds from each country.

Page loading speeds vary from 1.1 to 5.5 seconds. Israel and Dutch surfers have the quickest page load, while Chinese and Brazilian surfers have the slowest page loading rating.

For almost all countries, the page loading speed vary between 1.6 and 3 seconds. The variation in Internet speed could have been caused by several of these factors:

1. The disparity of communication infrastructures between countries.
2. Broadband vs. dial-up penetrations for each country.
3. The speed and type of the computers used to surf the web.
4. The types of websites visited by the different populations. Rich media sites with photos and movies would take much longer time to load than plain text sites.
5. The location of websites being visited also counts. Web Sites hosted physically near the surfers may provide faster page loading speeds.

The next graphic illustrates the results more effectively.

There are additional interesting results, like this one. For every added second that takes to load a page, a web surfer spends an extra 6 seconds browsing it. You can read the entire post directly in:

Source:Clicktale

Advertising on YouTube’s mobile site in United States & Japan

Google is running a display ad test on selected pages of the YouTube mobile sites in the Unites States & Japan. Test advertisers will have an additional branding tool at their disposal and the big opportunity to reach millions of people who visit YouTube every day using their mobile devices.

YouTube mobile advertising test will be evaluated closely the next several weeks to make sure that partners and advertisers get the most valuable and effective mobile experience possible.

Google and YouTube are experimenting with new online advertising strategies, I recently saw some AdSense experiments, like a little search box instead of ads where the users had the opportunity to search for advertising, a llittle strange because I suppose that people would’t search for advertising, they would prefer to search for content. By the way, Google has also opened the doors for more countries and languages for advertising in videos with Video Units, the adsense program was available only for US, Canada & UK editors, now more people will have the opportunity to earn more money using YouTube videos.

If you want to know more about YouTube for mobile devices watch the next two YouTube videos.

Yesterday Google launched www.FreetheAirwaves.com, a site where Google says that more than three quarters of radio airwaves called “white space spectrum” are completely unused. Those airwaves were the Fuzzy static between channels that we used to see on the old TVs.

Google wants to make a new revolution on those white spaces with wireless services of all kinds, including an universal wireless Internet. Let’s remember that Google, Spring Nextel and some other companies also want to implement wireless internet across all the U.S. territory.

www.FreetheAirwaves.com is inviting people to sign the petition and help spread the word about this new campaign. You can even upload your own video trough YouTube to support the campaign, the URL channel is http://www.youtube.com/freetheairwaves

Google
Your voice can help convince the Federal Communication Commission to open up the unused “white spaces” radio spectrum and unleash a revolution in wireless innovation.

By the way, Google is using his own tools in this new site, Google analytics is monitoring the site behavior.

You can read all about it in Google’s new site: Free the Airwaves, This is the promotional video.