E-games Cosplay Calendar Girls

Thanks to her geek cred, Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao is cover girl and Miss December for E-games‘ 2009 cosplay calendar. She takes center stage among mainstream Filipina models like Jamilla Obispo, Cesca Litton, and Tisha Silang.

Good to see a geek in the spotlight for a change. A traditional Filipino marketer would have put a mainstream model on the cover, and relegated the odd geek to some middling month. Clearly, there are no traditional Filipino marketers at E-games.

YouTube Opens Up Sponsored Videos

Remember those sponsored videos we’ve been seeing beside YouTube search results for months now, the ones YouTube confirmed last month? Now your video can be one of them. Ordinary YouTubers can now buy keyword-based advertising for their videos in YouTube search results on a cost-per-click basis.

YouTube is tapping into a Long Tail revenue stream from its own creators. Never mind the human desire for fame or the corporate desire for brand exposure on the world’s biggest video-sharing site. With selected YouTube partners getting revenue shares for ads beside their videos, advertising on YouTube SERPs becomes a straightforward matter of CPC costs versus CPM revenue. On both sides of that equation, YouTube makes money. Click here to continue reading “YouTube Opens Up Sponsored Videos”…