YuMe

Broadband video advertising technology provider, YuMe (note: the company recently launched a new video ad format, dubbed "Triple Play," in which a pre-roll ad is enhanced with an interactive menu that provides additional options for viewers to engage with the advertised brand--see the article published on itvt.com, January 20th), announced Monday that it has appointed ad sales veteran, Scot McLernon, as chief revenue officer. The company says that the hire comes in the wake of its "growth and expanding footprint in the online video advertising space." In his new role, McLernon will lead YuMe's video ad sales team.

Broadband video advertising technology provider, YuMe, on Tuesday announced the launch of a new video ad format dubbed "Triple Play." According to the company, Triple Play is a pre-roll video ad that is enhanced with an interactive menu that provides additional options for viewers to engage with a brand. The company claims that the new offering is unique "in that it lets viewers decide how they want to interact and engage with the advertiser." The offering was launched in partnership with Horizon Interactive and the latter's client, Livescribe, on a video ad for Horizon's Pulse pen: the ad is embedded above.

Adobe announced Wednesday that over 20 companies are "embracing" its recently announced open framework for building media players (note: for more on the new framework, see the article posted on itvt.com April 21st). The company bills the framework, code-named "Strobe," as helping establish an open industry standard for media players and as offering production-ready software components to streamline the development of custom media players, thus reducing the time content publishers spend creating their own playback technologies.