Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube. Today, the Mountain View web giant announced that it has officially launched ads on the home, search, and browse pages of its mobile YouTube site (m.youtube.com) in the US and Japan. After running ad tests on the site that date back to at least the summer of 2008 …

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Wednesday 10th March 2010 19:49 GMT Si 1

How do Google make money with the iPhone's custom YouTube app?

The YouTube app on the iPhone is a custom one so there are no context sensitive adverts anywhere. How do Google make money from that, do Apple pay some sort of fee for it? Makes me wonder if they will want to make some amendments in the future...

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1. Thursday 11th March 2010 10:57 GMT Ross Ryles
  
  Same on Hero
  
  The HTC Hero comes with a YouTube app too. Don't know about other androids.
  
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2. Thursday 11th March 2010 11:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  @Si 1
  
  ^^That's right, use an Evil Jobs icon even though what you seem to be complaining about is getting a YouTube application on your phone without having any adverts. Perhaps Steve should have listened to you and ensured that the application was littered with ads. Asshat.
  
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Wednesday 10th March 2010 23:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

Adblock user

Whats an "Ad"?

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1. Thursday 11th March 2010 05:23 GMT Lou Gosselin
  
  @Adblock user
  
  It's always a surprise to visit a web site on someone else's computer (without adblock) and see how bad the ads have gotten. Yikes! It's intolerable! Thankfully, adblock is very effective.
  
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Thursday 11th March 2010 00:20 GMT Fluffykins

@Adblock user

Its a way of deciding which companies to avoid like the plague.

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