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Overlay.TV Raises C$4.6 Million First Round For Video Ads

Overlay.TV, an Ottawa, Canada-based online video ad provider, has raised a C$4.6 million (US$4.53 Million) first round led by Celtic House Venture Partners, EdgeStone Capital Partners and Tech Capital Partners. The company offers a platform to put a contextually relevant, interactive overlay on online videos. It claims to be a user-friendly alternative to other video ad models, such as pre-roll. Per an example given by the company, a clothing retailer could put up a video of a fashion show, with buttons over each item taking the user to a page where the can be purchased. There’s also a consumer side, allowing users to put social information in their own videos. Release.

Jan 15, 2008 10:10 AM ET

Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media

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Jan 19, 2008 6:33 PM

This is offering by Overlay with the purchase option to the seller site in not new personalscreenmedia offer something similar, through using product placement markers that when clicked open an i-frame to allow purchase.

I would like to see how this compares with videoegg or revver and how the social consumer side intergrates with this.

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