{"id":878,"date":"2007-01-06T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/06\/google-serious-about-video-you-bet\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T00:38:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T05:38:21","slug":"google-serious-about-video-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/06\/google-serious-about-video-you-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Google serious about video? You bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are likely to be some long faces at NBC this week. The network &#8212; which has gotten plenty of attention this year for its ambitious embrace of Web distribution and its decision to play nice with YouTube, also known as the &#8220;Lazy Sunday&#8221; effect &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&amp;art_aid=53427\">has lost<\/a> Michael Steib, the senior executive that has been steering its new broadband initiatives. And where is Mr. Steib off to? Why, Google, of course.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/lazysunday-thumb.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"lazysunday-thumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PaidContent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/industry-moves-nbcs-michael-steib-leaves-for-google\/\">broke the news<\/a> first, noting that Steib was the general manager of strategic ventures for NBC Universal, and the guy who founded and was responsible for NBBC &#8212; or the National Broadband Broadcasting Co., the unit that the network launched in September after watching the viral success of the Lazy Sunday video clip from Saturday Night Live a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>From the sounds of it, Steib is going to be working on &#8220;monetizing&#8221; Google Video and YouTube by creating some sort of ad program. <em>&#8220;We are pleased to have Michael Steib join the Google team to help us work with advertisers to create effective, measurable video advertising,&#8221;<\/em> a Google spokesman told MediaPost. Will it be pre-roll ads? Post-roll? Pop-ups? Ashkan says Google wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchmojo.com\/web\/blog\/?p=1137\">create AdSense for video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are likely to be some long faces at NBC this week. The network &#8212; which has gotten plenty of attention this year for its ambitious embrace of Web distribution and its decision to play nice with YouTube, also known as the &#8220;Lazy Sunday&#8221; effect &#8212; has lost Michael Steib, the senior executive that has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/06\/google-serious-about-video-you-bet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google serious about video? You bet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}