Adap.tv raises $10 million for online video ads
Adap.tv, a San Mateo, Calif. company that provides ads for online videos, has raised $10 million — as a slew of competitors, including Google, try to do the same.
The company’s technology provides contextually relevant advertising that runs at the bottom of a video as it plays (our early coverage here). This is sometimes called in-line ads, which are distinct from many other video-ad providers that include ads that take over the video player before, during… Continue Reading
Pluggd begins delivery of better audio search
Pluggd, a Seattle company, has delivered a widget that lets you search audio (and soon, video) on third-party sites in more sophisticated ways.
It has been working away on a technology that allows you to search for specific terms or themes within audio. We wrote about the company six months ago, when it launched a few test audio files to search.
The service debuts on CNET. Pluggd is signing up other partners too. Notably, the service… Continue Reading
Video search company PodZinger becomes EveryZing, raises $10 million
Cambridge, Mass-based PodZinger, previously branded as a search engine for podcasts, has re-named itself EveryZing, and raised $10 million to expand its services.
EveryZing has a video and audio search engine for consumers, which we’ve covered before, but CEO Tom Wilde says that the company is using the money to change focus: EveryZing will use its speech-to-text technology to help publishers get their content into major search engines’ results and get related advertising.
Wilde claims that this… Continue Reading