Russian Online Video Advertising Market: Small But Grows Strongly

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Posted by: Yakov @ 15:12 [25. 09. 08]

In spite of a multi-million daily usage of Russian online video sharing sites such as Rutube, Video@Mail.ru, Smotri.com, Rambler Vision, the Russian online video advertising market accounted for only 1 percent of display advertising spending in Russia in the first half of 2008.

We at Quintura also tried in-video advertising by sponsoring a cartoon produced by [...]

RuTube Founders Exit at $15 Million Valuation

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Posted by: Yakov @ 09:49 [6. 03. 08]

The leading Russian media holding Gazprom-Media is closing a deal to acquire a majority stake in the largest Russian independent online video community site RuTube valuing the business at $15 million, reports business daily Kommersant today. As a part of the deal, the buyer would also invest several million dollars in the RuTube business. The [...]