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If Google Gives You Comics…

While the announcement of the Seth “Family Guy” McFarlane link to Google was not new, the way Google has announced it will distribute and monetize reflects a deeper reach for the online media behemoth. Google is going in to the content production space.

The caveat about this is the actual information given for advertisers about publishers and their audience.

As NYT reports: “The innovative part involves the distribution plan. Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for Mr. MacFarlane’s target audience, typically young men.”

The question is how are they determining the target audience? Topic based decision or cookie based?

Is Google making an across the board push to present as many of the new methods that they want to use to track, distribute and develop traffic? Are they headed for a period of controversy and legal challenges?

Hey they have weathered them so far in numerous continents, so maybe they have it written into their growth program.

The creation of an online only broadcast of popular content is interesting for the US where over the air television goes digital early next year. The use of the Family Guy creator popular with a large number of internet users and online spenders is a smart move, if when the smoke clears they can monetize it in acceptable ways.

I am waiting for the day when Google and Yahoo are bidding for online presentation of the Olympics. Right now it seems NBC is starting their Olympic online connection.

Bob Costas was pushing people off the TV and on to the NBC Olympics sites to follow the rest of the Swimming Olympic Sunday night. His closing was ” Bob Costas telling people to turn of tv and watch online live Olympic trials. “if you are not online already online, fire up those computers and start watching”.

In the mean time, I look forward to the new characters from McFarlane.

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