Video Units
What content is more compelling then video? And how better to monetize this compelling content on your site than by adding video units from Google’s YouTube, a leader in online video?
To get started, from the AdSense Setup page, click Video unit. You will need to login to your YouTube account (or create an account if you don’t have one already). Next, you’ll be prompted to name and design a video player as shown in Figure 8-52.
Google analyzes the site on which you put a video unit to help determine the content of the unit, but you can give this decision a nudge by adding content keywords, categories, and channels as shown in Figure 8-53.

Figure 8-52. The first step is to configure the appearance of your player

Figure 8-53. You help Google determine the videos that will play by selecting content-related keywords, categories, and channels
After you’ve made your selection, Google generates code for you as shown in Figure 8-54. As with other Google AdSense products, it is your job to copy and paste the code into position on your web pages.

Figure 8-54. Copy and paste the video unit code into your web pages
Once the code has been copied and pasted into your web page, the video unit displays ...
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