I could see that to a degree. Looking at my own site as an example, it would be nice to only have poker commercials in the poker section, football commercials in football, etc, as well as maybe having general-play commercials. So in a sense, I could see flagging them by channel. I think that managing them by individual video would be too much micromanaging though, especially if your site grows to be very large.

My general thoughts are that I prefer a long-tail approach. I'd much rather have generalized commercials that are based on 'per view' price basis and have them carried across site wide. In this sense, those more popular videos would still generate more money due to having more views. In television you see a combination of the two approaches. Niche programming like home renovations will have more ads taylored to a specific audience, but most commercials take a long tail approach. They do not care about individual viewer interests, but just the number of views their ad receives.

Of course, right now, I'd be happy to have anything at all.

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On the topic of implementation, has anyone looked at alstrasoft's flash ads as an example of how this can be done? Theirs is a separate plug in that has to be purchased. I know that their clone script has the same origins as vshare, but vshare has been extensively modified and improved (alstrasoft's is junk) to the point where it's basically a different product. But if they could get flashads to work on the more primitive version, then surely something similar can be done with vshare. I thought about buying it just to see if flashads would bolt onto vshare as well, but they charge $150 and everything I've ever gotten from them has been full of bugs, so I decided against it.

But maybe that is ultimately the best approach. A separate script that interacts with vshare. I'd pay for it as long as it works, which would give admin further financial incentive to get it going.