According to a post by Scoble, “Allan Grinshtein, president and CEO of Immense LLC, just wrote me and announced that his company rolled out over the weekend what he believes as the first contextual video advertising on the Web”. Uh, I’ve got news for you–contextual video has been around for a while now. Just look [...]

Adobe Systems (Nasdaq:ADBE) has acquired Serious Magic Inc.â„¢, a maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog Itâ„¢ delivering the power of video communication to general business [...]

According to an Adage article today, Google’s YouTube deal is going to be the start of Contextual Video. This is great news, as I’ve been predicting this for a while now, and it now finally looks like it’s all coming together for Google; contextual video is in their future. Finally!

Google announced yesterday that they have bought Youtube for $165 billion dollars in stock. This has been called one of the most important deals in this decade, paving the way for video online in the future. (Official press release here.)
Mark Cuban has a unique perspective on the deal, saying that it is not something that [...]