Here's a simple idea for an entrepreneur to make a few bucks and disrupt the heck out of the business - design an Add-Art that works on internet video watched through a browser (or any internet connected device) that takes over whenever there's a pre-roll that I can't skip on a video online. Except instead of static art, which would get boring during all those pre-roll ads and trailers, pull in pre-curated artistic videos from Vimeo or YouTube (or Mubi, or....). I'm sure a widget could be made that could do this without the content distributors and/or device makers knowing about it, and it would save me from watching a bunch of crap I don't want to see. Or hearing it, if you made it work with Pandora. It would be a great bonus if the program also added witty one-liners, perhaps from Mark Twain, in place of those annoying text ads that can still be found running at the bottom of certain videos.
Please someone, make this, please.
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Hey Brian, I sent this post to my friend Jason who develops android phone apps. who knows, maybe he'll give it a stab!
You should support Jeff Crouse's UnLogo project! He has written a library that recognizes logos and can replace them in video.
Ditto on supporting Jeff Crouse! http://www.jeffcrouse.info/projects/unlogo/
Also, Add-Art needs developers too...
I didn't know about Jeff's Unlogo project, but I think it is brilliant, and will blog about it asap. Thanks to mlk and Steve for bringing this up Dempsey, if your friend comes through, that will be a great day for all of us!
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