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The Google Inc. corporation recently announced its
intensions to team up with the creator of the extremely popular cartoon show Family
Guy, in order to begin a new business venture which will revolve around a new
animated series called Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy,
distributed exclusively over the Internet.
Even though many consider that original Internet materials
fail to bring in significant incomes, it seems that the buzz generated around
the upcoming deal might prove to be one of the exceptions, as Seth MacFarlane’s
name manages to raise massive interest and many companies appeared very interested
in collaborating on the project.
The winning formula involves a rather aggressive ‘sales’
strategy, as the company decided on using the 50 2-minute episodes on several
Web sites where MacFarlane’s fans can be found. The sites will be found using
Google’s AdSense advertising system, which will present the episodes with
different sorts of advertising methods. Some episodes will have TV-style
commercials before getting to the video, called preroll ads, while others will
present a banner or a credits message stating ‘brought to you by.’
Google’s AdSense is a program developed by the company which
facilitates Web site owners to enable advertising images, texts and videos on
their sites. The process and its updates are administered by Google and at this
point, the incomes are calculated on a per-click or per-thousand-impressions
basis, with a cost-per-action service being currently tested for release.
The alternative would
have been to acquire a domain and build a Web site for the show. The downside of
such a strategy is that it makes it difficult for people to find it, the
company depending on external links, specific Web searches and word of mouth.
Google’s officials reached the conclusion that placing the videos on several
sites carefully selected, would have a much greater impact and a significantly larger
exposure.
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