Last Friday I was at a thankfully excellent conference by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. After the usual, entertaining MySpace and Google/Youtube keynotes, I really enjoyed a presentation by Suranga Chandratillake, CEO/founder, Blinkx. As well as having something like 148 slides, which kept the A/V operators on their toes, it was a terrific history lesson on radio (aka “the newspaper that comes through the wall”), TV and now the internet. Alluding to an exciting new product, it did encourage me to drop by their rather nifty search engine. While there, I stumbled across a product I’d not heard of before Blinkx AdHoc - could this be, what Suranga was hinting about (or more likely has it been out for ages and I haven’t visited the site for months?)
Rather like video Adsense, it allows you to wrap or overlay video ads around your own videos that are hosted externally. You just drop the embed code into Blinkx and it returns revised embed code complete with ads. In theory… Sadly it doesn’t work with WordPress. I’ll see if I can put it somewhere else.
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