How YouTube is planning to make more money from the videos you watch

Google is gearing up to move beyond advertisement revenues for YouTube and has been flirting with the idea of selling products on YouTube for some time. Given that YouTube is flooded with product unboxing, reviews and other product-related videos, it makes logical sense for them to let people buy stuff they like from YouTube itself.
Now, YouTube is reportedly testing a new feature that will automatically find all products featured in a video that you are watching and will suggest links related to these products as per report by 9to5 Google. These links could redirect to e-commerce websites or can even suggest better videos of the same product.
“We are experimenting with a new feature that displays a list of products detected in some videos, as well as related products. The feature will appear in between the recommended videos, to viewers scrolling below the video player. The goal is to help people explore more videos and information about those products on YouTube. This feature will be visible to people watching videos in the US,” revealed Google in its support pages.

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