Is Google playing with YouTube?

Wed 13 May 2009 11:00, Jaap Jacobs

We all know that Google is suffering with YouTube. Google should take action in order to make YouTube as successful as other Google products. The last weeks I noticed that the results within Google’s search partner network swings with extraordinary figures. Is there any connection?

Is Google playing with YouTube?

The last weeks Google’s search partner network resulted within a triple amount of views, while Google’s search seems to be stable. The click trough ratio and amount of visitors on its search partners however stays behind, but a decrease within views in certain area’s happens as well.

Example Google Adwords campaign (1 – 7 april)

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Example Google Adwords same campaign (1 – 7 may)

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It is hard to have a good explanation for these figures. Google started to publish Adwords ads on YouTube. Maybe it has been published with under Google’s search partners? I have asked the Google’s Adwords team, but they didn’t had an answer on its fluctuating figures. What do you as search experts think would be the cause?


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    • Dudibob

    any chance you could make the images link through to a bigger version, can't quite make some of the details out.

    My guess would be that ppl on Youtube are not fussed about ads, or perhaps the Adsense listings have some crazy ads in it on YouTube making nobody click!

    Wo 13 mei 2009, 11:40


  • Als ik op youtube zoek op zoekwoorden van klanten zie ik inderdaad de advertenties terugkomen.

    Vr 22 mei 2009, 21:03


  • If I search on youtube, I do see indeed our advertisements, while the content network has been switched off and the search partners have been on.

    Vr 22 mei 2009, 21:06


  • Hi all,
    Do you also see a huge drop in av. position (together with the increase in impressions)? I had contact with Google and they told me it was a bug which should be solved right now...

    Di 26 mei 2009, 13:16

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