The Associated Press has entered into a partnership to allow people to embed its videos on their websites. The AP announced a deal with syndication network Voxant to distribute the vids on the web, with the Voxant site TheNewsroom as the base of operations. Good start, but a few issues may get in the way of this becoming the success it could be: you are asked to provide an email address to TheNewsroom to get the embed codes. That may not seem like much, but you don’t need to do any such thing at YouTube, ComedyCentral, or many other video sharing services, which one of the big reasons for their sharing appeal. Also, the AP will be running pre-roll ads. Still, full credit for allowing the embeds. Here’s a sample – raw vids of landslide damage in San Francisco…
Update from Cory: I’ve removed the player because of technical issues (see comments).
