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March 04 2008
Amazon video widgets
Amazon has entered the video hosting business with its Your Video Widget referral scheme for Amazon affiliates
Amazons’ Your Video Widget allows any registered Amazon Affiliate to upload a video and then select products that can be displayed as the video progresses. Video content can be anything from a product review through to a holiday video, but there are some restrictions; users can not include a URL in the video, or feature availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information for any product in the video itself.
Users can pick any products they would like to be displayed, with Amazon suggesting only that they work better if they have some context to the video, and that no two products can appear within 10 seconds of each other.
The ads served are paid as a percentage of generated sales, and are not offered on a CPC or CPM basis.
Maximum file size is 100mb, length 10 minutes, and accepted formats are avi, flv, mov, mpg, wmv.
Unlike YouTube there’s no central place where viewers can go to view the Amazon Video Widgets, but video viewers have the option of adding your video to their own website.
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