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Heavy.com Launches Beta Ad Network

Heavy.com, providers of such online video hit series as “Superficial Friends” and “Behind the Music that Sucks” has today announced the public beta of its own ad network, The Husky Network.

According to the press release, Heavy will be wrapping video players, such as YouTube or Revver, with branded skins and selling them on a CPM basis. According to the screenshot below, Heavy will be dropping a big static pop up on your page with a hole in the middle for the video to play in.

Heavy's Husky Ad Format

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4 Responses to “Heavy.com Launches Beta Ad Network”

  1. Mark Schoneveld Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    Wow, that’s ugly. But heck, I’m glad they’re looking out for the media disseminators. Too bad none of that revenue comes back to the media creators.

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  4. vidman Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Yikes! You’re better off using a service like Fliqz, which lets you customize the skin however you wish.

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