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YouTube - purchase conversion code?

mister scruff [PersonRank 3]

Friday, February 23, 2007
17 years ago2,691 views

i noticed this bit of code in the upload page on YouTube – just look at the source for
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload

Is this a sign that YouTube might start charging for premium content?

<!-- Google Code for purchase Conversion Page -->
script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
<!--
var google_conversion_id = 1062453109;
var google_conversion_language = "en_US";
var google_conversion_format = "1";
var google_conversion_color = "FFFFFF";
var google_conversion_value = 1;
var google_conversion_label = "purchase";
//-->
/script
script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I doubt it. I think it's more likely that Google are just trying to track how many conversions they get (i.e. how many people are registering and uploading videos) after clicking on AdWords for YouTube.

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