YouTube viewers can also be buyers

Los Angeles: Ever watched a video on YouTube and wanted to buy the song? YouTube is counting on it. The world's most popular video-sharing site is hoping to make money by installing buttons under YouTube videos so that the ability to buy the music and video games featured in the clip is just one click away. The "click to buy" buttons, which began appearing last week, connect viewers to the product page on Amazon.com or Apple Inc.'s iTunes. To start, YouTube, which will receive a commission for each sale, is selling songs from two major labels, EMI Music and Universal Music Group, and... [read full story]