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Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-interrupt-your-regularly-scheduled-inanity dept.

theodp writes "What could be more annoying than having ads precede online videos? How about having commercials interrupt the videos? That's the premise behind a newly-published Google patent application for Using Viewing Signals in Targeted Video Advertising."

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  1. Re:Sounds like an abuse cool technology by namgge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...so if there's a very hot video in say, youtube, you can put your commercial there almost inmediately... seems like the best way to maximize advertising costs.

    Quite so. Far better to adopt VW's approach: make an entertaining advert and stick it on youtube in its own right. Then people can watch it without it being interupted by some film,

    Namgge