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Download to iPhone or iPod If you want to learn how to set-up a Google AdWords account and start placing ads to sell merchandise from your website, this video is for you. Perhaps the best way to teach others how to use Google AdWords is by concrete example. Thus, today’s video shows how we set-up an AdWords campaign to sell copies of our market research report, Future Developments in Video Advertising. First, we show you what the report for sale looks like. Second, we illustrate the difference between Google AdWords links and Google Organic search results. Third, we demonstrate how to set-up a “landing page” as an entry point at your website for those who click on ads deployed thorough AdWords. There are three features to the page. One is a video summarizing five major conclusions in the market research report offered for sale. Another is a link to a free prospectus requiring those clicking on it to first provide name, email address, and phone number information. This transforms them into sales leads. Finally, a text summary of the video is available for those who chose to read a synopsis of the report as opposed to watching a video summation. Fourth, screen capture software provides step-by-step video instructions describing how to set-up an AdWords account and organize your first campaign. Factors covered include (1) geographic targeting, (2) network selection, (3) device inclusion, (4) key word selection, (5) pricing, (6) ad construction, (7) calls-to-action, (8) budgeting, (9) weekend exclusion, and (10) landing page targeting, among others. Google’s third quarter financial results document that AdWords use is leading the way as a sign of overall economic recovery. In short, it appears that advertisers are first returning to the Internet before incumbent media channels such as TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. This could have profound implications for the future of advertising in general. Not only do sponsors seem to prefer the Internet per se, but they may also become conditioned to the AdWords practice of only paying for ads that users actively select. As applied to future video advertising, sponsors may come to demand that they only pay for video ads that actually get watched. For example, they recognize DVR users often fast-forward through commercials. But if sponsors apply the AdWords convention to video commercials, they’ll only pay for commercials that get watched. This could be the subtle, but most significant, implication of the fact that AdWords advertising is leading the recovery of the entire advertising industry. To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to such changes, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.

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Download to iPhone and iPod here. Last week I was on a panel at a conference for the Entertainment Law Institute of the Texas Bar in Austin. Our panel topic was “The Future of Video Distribution”. This video podcast summarizes my presentation. Andy Grove, who was the last of the three original Intel leaders to leave, liked to encourage employees to ask “What if?” questions. He felt they could lead to new discoveries about future change. Thus, we ponder, “What if all video were on the Internet instead of Cable TV?” Consider the impact on three constituencies, (1) Consumers, (2) Sponsors, and (3) Copyright Holders. Consumers will benefit in four ways. First, all programs will be available on demand. Broadcast schedules will be irrelevant and there will be no need to remember to TiVo anything. Second, shows will be viewable on any screen from mobile phone to TV. Third, content will be searchable. You’ll find what you want to watch by Googling it. Fourth, the Long-Tail will stretch to near infinity. Sponsors gain a number of advantages. First, viewership will be measurable. Second, commercials can be held accountable. Sponsors might be able to choose to pay for only those that actually get watched. Third, ads can be interactive thereby generating sales nearly instantaneously from the viewers. Fourth, ads can be addressable in a variety of ways including demographic, geographic, and behavioral targeting. Copyright Holders also stand to benefit. First, Internet distribution provides a Global market. Second, revenue opportunities for Long-Tail content become viable because there is no need for a minimum economic production run as would apply for DVDs. Hollywood studios will be able to sell downloads from their back catalog that are seldom available in the form of physical DVDs. Third, consumers will be able to make impulse purchases since the Internet is constantly available 24/7. Fourth, the Net provides opportunities for multiple revenue streams. Among them are (1) rentals, (2) downloads, (3) subscriptions, and (4) advertising. Inevitability. For the past 30 years we’ve been gradually attaching an increasing number of appliances to our TVs. In the first half of that period the devices were not Internet-connected and included items like Cable Set-Top boxes, Video Tape Players, and Video Game Consoles. However, during the last 15 years most such appliances are Internet-connected. Examples are laptop computers, Apple TV, (modern) Video Game Consoles, and even the iPhone and iPod. As a result, the TV is being transformed into a dual function device. In one context it remains a TV as we have always known it, but in a second it is becoming a giant window into the Internet Cloud. Thus, the question is not “What if all video were on the Internet?” but instead is “When will all video migrate to the Net.” To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to such changes, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.