Wallstrip Gets New Player and Lots of Pre-Roll/Post-Roll Ads

Written by Allen Stern - July 18, 2008

Back in January, Julie Alexandria took over as Wallstrip host. Today Wallstrip has re-launched their site and video player. There's an updated archive show finder, threaded comments along with the ability to note if you are long or short on the stocks they create videos for.

The player is the big update in my opinion. It's now branded CBS and has pre-roll and post-roll ads. In my tests, there were 30 second and 15 second pre-roll ads on different video loads along with 15 second post-roll ads. The pre-roll ads included Blackberry and Brita. A minute of commercials for a video that's less than 3 minutes long - over 25% of the total time is taken up with ads!

I guess the days of OptionsXpress ads are over.

Here's today's show featuring PapaJohns. I can't say that I find Wallstrip funny or interesting but clearly some others do.