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YouTube's Ad Revenue Short of Expectations: WSJ
By Reuters | 09 Jul 2008 | 04:34 AM ET
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Advertising revenue from YouTube is likely to total about $200 million this year and thus fall short of parent company Google's expectations, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

Google also has significantly cut the number of YouTube clips it will sell ads against, so as not to sell them against videos that may violate copyrights, the newspaper said, citing one source.

Google and YouTube are being sued for copyright infringement in two cases involving YouTube and a second suit where the lead plaintiff is the English Premiere League.

The Internet advertising leader only sells ads against clips posted on YouTube that are approved by media companies or other partners, which represent just 4 percent of the clips on YouTube, a source said.

Much of the remainder are user-generated clips where rights are uncertain and where advertisers may be nervous about placing their ads against videos of unknown origin.

Google [GOOG  Loading...      ()   ] also plans accepting "preroll" and "postroll" ads to run before or after some YouTube clips.

These ad formats, while considered effective with advertisers, are often unpopular with Web users, one of the sources said.

The Journal said Google North American ad sales chief Tim Armstrong has been scrutinizing YouTube's ad sales system and that he and his colleagues had identified 105 problems with YouTube's ad sales, again citing one source.

"Over the past several months we've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't for our community and our advertisers," a YouTube spokesman said.

The spokesman declined to comment on specific figures in the Journal report.

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