Web search leader Google plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos and has signed up 20 customers, as it aims to do for videos what it has done for text.
Partners include YuMe, an online video advertising network; Brightcove, an Internet TV platform; and comedy site MyDamnChannel.
Brightcove, whose customers include CBS, Time Warner and Discovery Communication, will begin offering the technology to its clients.
YuMe, a California-based start-up, said yesterday that it will serve InVideo overlay adverts as part of Google's AdSense for video beta advertising program.
Google has traditionally used AdSense for text-only advertising but said the video program extends its offer to targeted, contextually relevant video graphical ads and text overlays.
Google has been working on ways of developing advertising revenue for online video since it bought YouTube, the video-sharing site, in November 2006.
As Internet access speeds become faster around the world, more television and Hollywood-produced video content is moving to the Web on sites like Hulu.com, owned by News and NBC Universal, and Fancast.com, owned by Comcast.
YuMe said Google is one of the third-party feeds accepted by YuMe's Adaptive Campaign Engine, which helps Web publishers in its network match each video ad impression with the best money-making ad placement in real-time.
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