Google’s AdSense for video program, whose public beta version was launched last February 21st on the blog InsideAdsense, uses two less intrusive formats of advertising, InVideo and text overlay ads.  The standardization of both could, in time, bring a preference of a less intrusive and more efficient kind of advertising as opposed to other forms such as pre-roll and post-roll.

Online advertising has imposed itself in a decisive manner in the last two years, as shown in the data report published by IAB, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, and by PwC, PricewaterhouseCooper. According to the report,  in 2006, the proceeds from advertising on the internet in the USA reached 16.9 billion dollars, a 35%