blinkx, a video search engine, has launched adHoc, a contexually-relevant video advertising platform. This is truly the first contextual video ad platform. Just like Google Adsense matches text ads and making them contextually relevant (contextual advertising), the blinkx AdHoc contextual video platform matches compelling, customized, TV-style ads to an audience on the video internet.
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MediaRiver, creators of the next-generation ClickSurge web publishing platform, has announced a new customer in Pixsy Corporation, an award-winning media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines.
Pixsy has distinguished itself as an industry leader in helping media companies add video and image search capabilities to their web properties, maximizing the amount [...]

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 [...]

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!