So, what is this idea of viral videos all about? Well here over the last year, websites promoting free videos have exploded in popularity. Places like YouTube and Google Video are the ones that most people may recognize. Well, what The Video Sense (herein simply TVS) does is provide a way for you, as an Adsense publisher, to make money from these videos that people are drawn to.
Before we go any further, in case you don’t know what Adsense is, let me explain it briefly to you. Adsense is an advertising method that businesses can use to display relevant ads on websites that do not belong to Google. Google charges these businesses so much each time a visitor clicks on an ad. In turn, Google passes a certain percentage of what they charge on to you, since it was your site hosting the ad. Think of it as renting a bulletin board on your land next to the freeway or renting a spot for their flyer in your store window. Then each month, as long as your account has earned at least $100, Google will mail you a check for what they owe you. You also have the option of direct deposit in most countries. To read all of the details please go here.
Well how does this relate to TVS? Well, The Video Sense displays videos and around those videos they also display those Adsense ads. Now how this works, is that you submit videos to TVS. Then, when your video is displayed, your Adsense id is used, for the ads that are displayed. Keep in mind that for videos that you submit, your id is only used 50% of the time. The other 50% is the owner’s id. Now don’t worry, you don’t have to be an expert at making videos, or even have your own videos to make money this way. Later on we’ll cover finding videos online that you can use, and simple ways to make your own.
The Video Sense also provides one other way to help you to earn money through Adsense. You can earn more money with TVS by referring your friends and others online to this new system. Each time one of your friends’ videos gets displayed, your Adsense id will be used 10% of the time. So the more people you refer, the less work you have to do in submitting videos! We also cover different methods of finding people to refer later on.