Picadmedia is a new new media vendor. They sell ad space in online images. So next time you are downloading or searching for images online, look out for the advertising. Their ads function as a rollover feature; mousing over one of their images will bring up an ad in a text bubble.
I don’t know about you, but this sounds a bit wonky to me.
I guess the moral of the story is that everything is for sale now. Anything can be media if you are bothersome enough to ask.
Hulu and Splashcast are now making it even easier to watch TV online. With their new “social TV player” people can watch full episodes, clips and interviews straight from their profile page. Just download the player and content is automatically syndicated in real time. And it’s free.
At a Japanese TV station. Start here.