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As you may have noticed, we use YouTube here for the hosting of our video reviews but next year, that will probably change. Gizmodo reports that YouTube will soon be adding 30 sec video ads to the beginning of video content beginning in 2008. Somehow I think that will lead to a huge decrease in video viewing, particularly in the viral video viewing where videos are embedded in blogs, like the one above that was on Dionne Galace’s today. What a huge disappointment. Via Gizmodo.  Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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::snort:: I figured it was only a matter of time once they were acquired by Google. How depressing. Like we’re not inundated with enough advertising every minute of every day.
30 seconds? …. You know, as much as I don’t like the idea of the ads, it might be tolerable if it was a shorter time, like 10 seconds. But no way will I sit through a 30-second ad lead in for a video.
Bastards!
There’s no way I’m spending 30 seconds on ad just to watch some video clips on the Internet.
Jane, you might want to think about using Revver.com - they do video hosting, and though they add the advertising, they share the revenue with the content creators. They have gotten good reviews from users.
I don’t mind watching ads if I know that you guys are getting some of it back! YouTube will do that in time, I’m sure…but not for everyone.