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 [...]

The Search Engine Roundtable is reporting that Google Video and MTV and some few select AdSense publishers are teaming up.
“Earlier this month, Google announced that they will be working with MTV to place “Viacom video clips (MTV and other clips) on web site owner pages.” Well, I got my hands on more exclusive details on [...]