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YouTube adds spark comments from competitors and complaints from customers

23 August 2007 6:52 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus | 8 comments

YouTube executives are getting no shortage of criticism from site visitors after launching their InVideo advertising Wednesday.

Users responding to an official blog post requesting feedback overwhelmingly disapprove of the ads, including one viewer who made his point with a video.

One comment said "You guys ripped off VideoEgg. What happened to innovation?"

VideoEgg, which apparently introduced an advertising system similar to YouTube's current approach even has a banner on their main page saying "Welcome YouTube, Seriously. We invented the video Overlay ad about a year ago. We are delighted that the market is finally catching on to a vital new approach to video advertising."

While YouTube has made no claim to inventing the technology they're using for advertising, it would certainly be more than a little ironic if they ended up in another court battle over royalty payments for it.

Source: Computerworld

Permalink to this article | Topic: Online video

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bomber991 (Newbie) 23 August 2007 8:04
Just remember kids, the good artists get inspiration from others, the great artists outright steal. [ + quote]
Unfocused (Junior Member) 23 August 2007 13:46
*Quote:* made a video to share his displeasure I love the irony of this. [ + quote]
1roofer (Newbie) 23 August 2007 20:08
a video, what better way to let people know your pissed off. wish i would have thought of it first. [ + quote]
Steve83 (Member) 24 August 2007 10:06
I don't understand why anyone allows an advertisement to be shown over their video. That's modifying a copyrighted work for profit without permission or compensation, which I've heard is a crime. [ + quote]
eLeCTR0n (Member) 24 August 2007 14:25
i saw this coming. [ + quote]
rav0 (Junior Member) 24 August 2007 15:00
*Originally posted by Steve83:* I don't understand why anyone allows an advertisement to be shown over their video. That's modifying a copyrighted work for profit without permission or compensation, which I've heard is a crime. Copyright infringment has never been a crime. Overlay advertisments are not copyright infringment anyway. [ + quote]
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 31 August 2007 14:05
To me the fact of the matter is i am not watching an ad before the youtube clip unless its actually from a preview of a movie. Youtube should have ads like it does around the video on the page but not on the actual video. [ + quote]
apiao (Inactive) 18 October 2007 0:04
spam removed [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 18 October 2007 13:03