Amazon Offering User Generated Video Hosting and Monetization

Amazon has quietly entered the video hosting and monetization game with Your Video Widget. 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, on top of the usual porn and piracy restrictions. 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. Like all Amazon Affiliate related advertising, 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.
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