Santa Barbara Arts TV Forms Content and Advertising Partnership with YouTube

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Santa Barbara Arts TV today announced that they have formed a content and advertising partnership with YouTube, now allowing the YouTube community to engage, interact and monetize the Exclusive, A-List Social Media Content on The Santa Barbara Arts TV YouTube Brand Channel at http://www.youtube.com/SBARTSTV.

The agreement will enable The YouTube Community to access hundreds of videos, including high-quality, professionally-produced programming segments and 1000s of video clips of exclusive/high-profile charity events, behind-the-scenes interviews with A-List Celebrities, and distinguished breaking news coverage of Global events focusing on Social Media, Charity/Green Events News Coverage and High Technology News including The Internet/Video Game/Consumer Electronic Industries (CES), with distinguished High-Definition television news coverage teams primarily in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.

Santa Barbara Arts TV has been a Major Producer Partner with Google Video since Feburary 2005, with almost 1 million video views and was one of the original YouTube Partners. Santa Barbara Arts TV YouTube Brand Channel continues to consistently gain 1000s of new viewers daily and is growing a large audience in the YouTube community.

Santa Barbara Arts TV content is now monetized through our YouTube Partner Channel via Google AdSense Video Units and The Google AdSense YouTube Video Units Player. Santa Barbara Arts TV Content is now listed in the AdSense Content Providers Area as Santa Barbara Arts and AdSense publishers are currently monetizing our content.

Google AdSense Video Units enable AdSense publishers to display relevant, targeted video content within a customized, embedded player that’s ad-supported. Google is working with select YouTube content partners including Santa Barbara Arts TV to supply the video content. AdSense Video Units Program is available in the US and will roll-out to the UK, Ireland, Canada and new countries where video units are available allowing the enabling and enriching of websites and blogs with relevant video content while enabling Webmasters and Bloggers to earn extra revenue from the relevant, non-intrusive ads that accompany the videos.

1000s of video clips of Charity Galas, Celebrities and Exclusive Events, including 50 full length Hour-Long Episodes of Santa Barbara Arts TV, are currently available to The Global Internet Community at our YouTube Partner Brand Channel http://www.youtube.com/SBARTSTV.

Santa Barbara Arts TV is the Number One weekly Charity, Entertainment and Social News Media Program in Santa Barbara with over 100 hour-long episodes (Since 2004), a demographic of 70,000 daily viewers on Cox Cable and 1000s of hours of video archived in High-Definition Video (HD Video), and broadcast locally and globally through a variety of Major Networks and Partners.

Santa Barbara Arts TV is Produced and Directed by Multi-Award Winning Super-Producer and Director Cliff Baldridge who recently won the Pacific Coast Business Times Awards recognized as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in California. Cliff Baldridge has consistently supported and consulted for 100s of Charities and is on numerous philanthropic committees. Santa Barbara Arts TV is hosted by Annie Chang who is a Three-Time Former Miss Chinatown and Miss Asia. Our current guest host is Annabelle Gutman, Associate Producer of World Peace One and former Ford Supermodel.

Santa Barbara Arts TV also provides Global Media Consulting Services and works with 100s of high profile clients including: http://www.WorldPeaceOne.com with Mr. Claes Nobel, Senior Member of the Nobel Prize Family, http://www.REEFCHECK.org whose Honorary Chair is Leonardo DiCaprio and with his Mother Irmelin DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah and Dr. Sylvia Earle, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Girls Incorporated of Santa Barbara, EveryBodyDanceNowSB.org, The Santa Barbara Young Professionals Club and 100s of Local, National and Global charities in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.

Santa Barbara Arts TV is also working with select A-List talent and is media consultant to Supermodel and Actress Bobbi Billard who is the Number One Supermodel on AOL, America Online, Netscape, and CompuServe and Bobbi is also The Number 4 Model At MySpace with 1.3 million friends at http://www.myspace.com/bobbibillard.

Santa Barbara Arts TV is excited to gain new partners, sponsors, advertisers and projects in 2008 and is currently commissioned to provide media services for selected partners at The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, The Sundance Film Festival, The Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Golden Globes and Academy Awards Gift Suites. Santa Barbara Arts TV is excited to produce exclusive global projects in 2008 and share our spectacular quality content with The YouTube Community and look forward to our interaction in the future.

YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. Santa Barbara Arts TV is excited to be able to offer YouTube and Internet video viewers a vast array of quality, meaningful content in the Charity and Celebrity Event Arena.

For More Information about Santa Barbara Arts TV, please visit a few of our sites in our network.

SANTA BARBARA ARTS TV YOUTUBE PARTNER BRAND CHANNEL

http://www.youtube.com/sbartstv

http://www.SantaBarbaraArtsTV.com

http://www.youtubebillionaire.com

(Santa Barbara Arts TV AdSense Video Units Tutorial)

http://www.elitetechreview.com

(Santa Barbara Arts TV CES 2008 Tech Coverage)

http://www.vipmediapr.com

(Public Relations for Santa Barbara Arts TV)

http://www.myspace.com/cliffbaldridge

(Official MySpace of Super-Producer/ Media Consultant Cliff Baldridge)