Youtube on Product Pages: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

January 11th, 2010 admin

I’m spotting more and more video on ecommerce sites – and many of these are YouTube videos. For example, Ideal Case: Shoeline.com: And one of the funniest, Vat19 (yes they sell the 5 lb gummy bear): Vat19 actually added a video gallery category , you can explore only items with videos. But have you noticed anything about the above examples? …


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