Forbes reports on a video search company Blinkx that offers Ad overlay on YouTube Videos. Google, which owns YouTube, wrote the book on context Ads and monetizing web pages. Google does offer Ads in YouTube pages, but the Ads are generated purely based on the text content added to the video.

What Blinkx does is a tool, “that lets online publishers place targeted text ads in any video embedded on a Web site based on the actual content of the video”

Blinkx is for website publishers who embed YouTube videos in their sites. Blinkx can’t place these Ads in the YouTube page itself (only Google can).

All these aside, I thought that the videos are the real Ads.  So now we are going to see Ads on Ads?

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