Maine Broadcast Television, Print Advertising

Web-Video ‘Skins’

October 5th, 2009 by Mike

CBS is about to start showing some skin. About a year after they were introduced, a handful of video-ad formats-called bugs, tickers and skin – are jockeying to become the favorites among marketers. The skin format, in which the ad appears in a graphic surrounding the window where the video plays, has been slower to gain momentum because it isn’t widely available on top video sites.

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I moved to Maine when I was 16 years old. I got my start as a feeder operator on a press. After a side step into the dying art of letterpress printing (which I quite enjoyed), I moved into film-based prepress. Building on that experience I then jumped head-first into digital prepress. I came on board at Spire Express in 2000, staying quite busy for some time doing imagesetting. Now here I am on the other side of yet another transition (away from silver-based imaging), working to stay on my toes with new technologies and media. When I'm not working, I enjoy playing the fiddle and banjo. Portland is a great town in which to work and play music.

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