In another attempt to monetize YouTube, Google has decided to start showing so called Sponsored Videos on the YouTube video search result pages. This ‘Video AdWords’ scheme is ideal if you have video content you want people to see, but what are the real possibilities for affiliate advertisers ?

Similar to Facebook’s ad service, Myspace releases MyAds, it’s system for displaying targeted ads across it’s network. The main difference with Facebook is that Myspace delivers total transparency about the system, as well as the possibility for Myspace users to opt-out of it.

Yahoo! and Google spearpoint the online privacy issue by allowing users to opt-out of targeted advertisements across their entire network.

This week Google released Insights for Search. With this expansion to Google Trends, online marketeers using search can derive more information and expand their capabilities.

Zanox launches a contest where they will award 1.000.000 EUR (one million €) to whomever comes up with the best business model based on their affiliate services.

After the acquisition by Google of ad technology, web analytics and affiliate platform Doubleclick Performics, people could only speculate what the new name for this company would become. Yesterday saw the official birth of the Google Affiliate Network.

The ad planning service companies like comScore and Nielsen Online now offer for a fee, is going to be offered by Google for free.