Awesome YouTube Promoted Video with Site Takeover

If you’re looking for the latest creative possibilities and want to take your online marketing campaign to the next level, try this combination:

AdWords-style PPC + YouTube Promoted Video + YouTube Site Takeover = Big Impact.

It’s not as inexpensive as Google AdWords, but this combination can deliver an extremely creative message to an enormous captive audience in real time.

In the same way that you can target searches on Google with pay-per-click advertising, you can now put your message in front of millions of YouTube video searches daily, too. Bid on the terms related to your video, and with enough space on your credit card you can show up as often as the search terms are entered. Promoted videos show up on the right-hand side of the YouTube search results.

How does YouTube Promoted Video work? You be the judge...

Here’s where it starts getting fun. Take over your video’s landing page with a custom skin, and it’s like having a flare gun and bullhorn at Sunday mass…

Learn more about YouTube Promoted Video and how to customize your YouTube Channel at Mashable.

The Strange Boom in the Popularity of Shorter URLs

It was recently noted that bit.ly took over as the #1 “url shortening service” to twitter users, besting the oldest and most well-known of such services,  http://tinyurl.com/. Some 46% of shortened links redirect through the service.

Lately though, I keep stumbling onto more and more short URL services.

Here’s a post at Mashable that lists… get this… 90 of them.

Online Keyword Research Tools

Looking for keywords? Wondering how to find the best keywords for your AdSense? Finding profitable keywords is key to PPC, SEM, AdWords & AdSense.

It’s no surprise that choosing a good mix of key phrases is one of the keys to successful online marketing on the search engines.

Well, I just thought I’d share an online set of tools that really makes it fast, easy and affordable to maximize your online marketing budget and generate the most revenue from your AdSense.

Check out the Free Keyword Tool at Keyword Country.

How to find all the email addresses inside some text

Have you ever received an email that has been forwarded several times and you wanted to reply to all? It’s a pain in the you-know-where to copy and paste all the email addresses manually. 

So I made a tool that rips email addresses from arbitrary text.  

Enjoy, and don’t abuse it. I don’t support sending SPAM. That is NOT what this tool is for.  It is also not for harvesting email addresses from websites. If you are engaging in this type of behavior, you should read this post.