Screw You Yahoo Video

Not that there’s anything funny about laying off people, at least this video lightens the mood.

OMMA Video Panel: The Format Wars

Moderator: Steve Smith
Philip Braden, ScanScout
Eric Hadley, CEO, Heavy
Rebecca Paoletti, Yahoo
Chris Allen, Starcom

Panel starts with some show-and-tell.

ScanScout Philip Braden shows overlays. Plays in-stream while the video is playing. From that point on, the ad experience is completely user initiated. New example that Philip showed was a video-in-video overlay. Cool demo alert: There was video playing [...]

CBS and Yahoo! Hook Up for Syndication

Better from the horse’s mouth than from mine. Besides, I gotta get over to Digital Hollywood.

Mobile Advertising is So Ghetto

Display advertising on mobile devices, Google launched it this week, MSN and Yahoo! have been doing it for longer, but really, is a mini banner ad a useful marketing device?

The answer for Google, I guess, is “it can’t hurt,” if other companies offer mobile display ads, Google might as well compete, but when will the [...]

Yahoo! Scores MLB Deal

Good hour for sports here at OWV. Having just hung up the phone with the NHL’s Director of Corporate Communications, I received a press release announcing that MLB has signed a deal with Yahoo! to make their MLB.TV package available to Yahoo!Sports users.

“Partnering with MLB.com allows Yahoo! to offer our users an unmatched baseball [...]