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Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application

Friday, March 20, 2009
Learn how to add instream and companion ads (in Flash and Silverlight formats) to a Silverlight media player application. See real-world examples of how to use IAB's VAST and VPAID guidelines as well as other methods to display instream video advertisements along with companion display ads.
  • Nicholas Brookins
    Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Nick provides technical design for the Akamai AdaptiveEdge streaming solution, based on Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. He is also the lead developer for the Silverlight version of OpenVideoPlayer, an open source project that aims to provide a foundation for stable and scalable web-based video players, available at openvideoplayer.sf.net. Prior to his role at Akamai, Nick was the CTO of SAM Systems, where he played a key role in development of patent-pending methods for improving video quality and efficiency for the company's real-time surveillance video solutions. Aside from software development, Nick enjoys playing guitar and spending time at the beach in San Diego where he lives with his wife and daughter.

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  • Thanks to anyone who attended this talk, or watched online. I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas.

    The code is now posted and available here: http://openvideoplayer.sf.net/mix

    Subscribe to the news on the OpenVideoPlayer site to get notifications as we update OVP and the various ad components.

    Cheers,

    -Nick Brookins
    nicholas.brookins (at) akamai (d0t) com

  • I think a nice add-on have not tested it but thanks for sharing

  • Hi, nice post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for sharing. I will certainly be subscribing to your blog.

  • very nice posts thanks

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