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.

As I’m getting closer and closer to posting videos to an online video service like blip.tv, I’m starting to pay closer attention to how a lot of major content providers are…um, providing their content. In-browser. I’m looking more at how they handle ads, but I’ll start my small observations with a few without advertising: Amazon, Netflix, and G4. More observations on other services in a later post.