As affiliates and merchants are talking more and more about utilising video in their campaigns, and the list of merchants with You Tube channels is growing over at A4U Forum, we’re keen to show you how you can combine the video with your content units.

We have already covered how to add a video to an Easy Content Unit, and added a feature to choose where to put the video, top or bottom, but what uses could you put these units to work? Here’s the first idea we had – a showcase unit. We chose to create one for the product Sphereing via Buy a Gift (via Affiliate Window) using a video available on their You Tube Channel:

We created a random unit which shows products from Buy a Gift with ‘Sphereing’ as the keyword filter. Then we customised the unit, and added the You Tube Video – simples!

Next up we’ll look at price comparison type of video content unit.

Oh by the way, if anyone wants a copy of this unit put into their account, let me know by support ticket and I’ll copy one in