Microsoft - MSN Search may soon be in the online video arena
According to Personal Tech Pipeline MSN Search and Microsoft will soon have a product to compete with Google Video (kind of makes you think about my last post about music and video being a next step doesn’t). The report on Personal Tech mentions the following from an interview with LiveSide.net, Moz Hussain, a product planner for Microsoft’s blogging service MSN Spaces, hinted at a possible Live Video.
“Hussain said future integration of Windows Live services and Spaces would allow him to “aggregate things that I’m posting in different places, whether it’s a restaurant review, whether its photos from my holiday, whether its my favorite video clips and movies — all of those things I can aggregate and share with the world.”
This is an interesting development that I think is not yet fully understood. Honestly I think MSN is doing all of these things to increase places to display their ads displays.
Currently if you go to Google Video you won’t see anything equivlent to a “sponsored link”, don’t expect the same from Microsoft. I predict that MSN will be selling adspace on their video site with in 60 days of launch max (perhaps from day one) in one form or another. It may be “sponsored video” or simple text ads but you can bet your bottom dollar they are not just doing it to be “like google”,
~ Jack Spirko