Dancing Gophers: Amazon Your Video Widget

Fellow Amazonian Russell Dicker reposted his customer video review of the Caddyshack dancing gopher doll on his blog using the new Amazon associates Your Video Widget.

The Your Video widget lets Amazon affiliates annotate their videos with Amazon.com products and share them on their website. Check out this video for an example:



Since this widget is part of the Amazon associates platform, the creator of the video widget earns a referral fee for all Amazon purchases made by viewers that click through on the links in the video. This is true even for embeds of the video on other websites: Russell is going to make all the associates cash for purchases made from the video on this post.

I think this widget has great revenue potential for associates. If you create a popular viral video and publish it as a YVW, you can end up with thousands of your associates links all over the internet. It's ideal for publishing product review videos or for trying to monetize all of the funny videos you have laying around.

Disclosure: I'm an SDE on the team that developed the Your Video Widget. This is not an official Amazon message. All opinions expressed are my own and not of Amazon.