As I said in a really old post, I’m going to start putting videos on a site like blip.tv someday soon. Naturally, I’ve been paying extra attention to how other sites have been implementing video ads. In that last post I just talked about some video streaming sites. Now we get to the meat of my current interest, online video with ads.

This isn’t meant to be seen as a comprehensive guide of all sites and different types of online ads, just a few notes and thoughts regarding the way I’ve seen some sites display ads. For extra fun, picture me saying it in the whiny, meandering voice of Andy Rooney.

Is it just me, or are Google’s ads getting better and better? More dead on? Better at delivering ads to me that I am interested in?

I’m the type of person that never clicks ads. Probably ruined by those old banners for free Ipods or “You’ve just won a free !!!” Obvious scams. Now in the past month I’ve clicked on 4 ads. 1 on a web page, 1 from a Google search result, 2 from youtube videos.

I could be that the more I understand about Google’s ads, and how they work, the more I’m trusting of them. It’s relative cheap and easy for anyone to throw their ads in the mix. Also, I’ve seen a lot of ads for business and products I know are legitimate. It’s a definite possibility that the difference is me.

Anybody else?

Lark