YouTube videos to air with ads in 2008

Published Sep 25 2007, 01:55 PM by Ryan Stewart

I guess we all should have seen this coming: YouTube is sticking ads on to its videos next year.

On the surface, it seems like this might bring the site's popularity down a shade, but then again, Google has a history of creativity when it comes to this stuff. Who knows. Maybe this stab at legitimacy will incite more companies to open their video vaults.

Because this blog entry needs to run with a video, here's "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!"

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