The New York Times reports Google will be teaming up with the creator of the US cartoon series "Family Guy" to distribute short original episodes of a show called "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy."* The first news of this came in last year already. Instead of creating a new microsite where people can view these episodes, in this model the new cartoons will be shown in AdSense spots, those automated Google ads third-party webmasters include on their sites. From the NYT:
Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be "preroll" ads, which ...
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