Brightcove Rolls Google AdSense for Video

Brightcove has announced support for the AdSense for video beta program, Google’s contextual advertising technology for online video. Brightcove’s support of the AdSense for video beta program hope to unlock a powerful economic proposition for the Web’s top media publishers. Serving ads based on both the content of an Internet video and the context of a web page, AdSense for video beta gives media publishers the additional ability to target tailored in-stream overlay ads from Google’s large base of advertisers. Publishers and content providers can control which videos get which ads and when the ads play in each video.

• Posted: February 21, 2008 | Filed: Channels, Video Ads | Permalink |

Also of interest - so says the machine:

Google Trials Video Adsense
Using its nearly ubiquitous AdSense network, Google is going to start delivering video ads from The Wall Street Journal, Life/Style Television and others to a small group of sites that choose to test the new program. Like their standard text ads, the video ones will be determined contextually. Of course,

Google to Combine AdSense with YouTube
And so the "Aha Hammer" finally drops.. Google has admitted it will integrate the YouTube platform their AdSense unit in order to raise awareness and revenues for themselves all players going forward. "Video units" will display two different kinds of advertising, both pegged to the content of the site and the

Brightcove Network for Small Video Publishers
Brightcove has announced a new free service, the Brightcove Network, that lets content owners of all sizes launch their own commercial Internet video channels at no cost and generate revenue through advertising and video download sales. Coinciding with the launch of the Brightcove Network, the company announced the availability of

BrightCove Buzz

Live Digital Rolls out with Cash for Content
LiveDigital has unveiled their concept of personal Internet broadcasting with the release of its user generated channel and video programming platform, allowing any user to design, program, and brand their own Internet channel importing high-quality content. Each month, LiveDigital will have a Sweeps period, and split advertising revenues among the

Rescuing You from TV’s Death-Like Grip
VBS.tv is an online broadcast network streaming original content with Academy Award-nominated director Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) as the creative director. They claim original content from contributors and bureaus in 20 countries and have a pretty slick custom player interface with widescreen remote running on Brightcove. Via: Steve

Sony BMG Chooses Brightcove for Musicbox Video
Sony BMG Music has announced it will use Brightcove to deliver broadband video in new video players deployed across its network of artist and label websites, offering on-demand access to music videos, interviews, live performances, and behind the scenes footage from its catalog of videos. The broadband video initiative, currently named

Google Video

VideoSift: Digg’s for YouTube and Google Video
We’ve all seen lots of YouTube and Google Video portal type content but now - and lets face it folks it was only a matter of time - here’s a a Digg like collaborative community driven site for trolling up the video on the web; check it out at

HBO Special - Hacking Democracy
Since America 'votes' today we thought this was a timely post.. via Google video. (Run-time 1hr 21mins)

Time Warp

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