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Video ads on news sites

“Editor and Publisher”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com reports that the two “Denver”:http://www.denverpost.com “papers”:http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ have begun “selling video ads”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756. I was unable to find any of those ads on the site today, but the “E&P article”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756 says that they do not start play­ing auto­mat­i­cally — thank god. “The article”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756 also says that the ads require “Windows Media Player”:http://windowsmedia.com/download/download.asp. I’m by no means a “Flash”:http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash [...]

November 7, 2003 | Categories: Business, Web design

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