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  <body-formatted>NewTeeVee &lt;a href="http://newteevee.com/2007/01/29/ask-a-ninja/"&gt;says&lt;/a&gt; the John Battelle-owned blog advertising network is stumping up at least $300,000 this year, with most of the cash &lt;em&gt;"floated up"&lt;/em&gt; straight to Kent Nichols, Douglas Sarine and David Peck, the comedy-and-production trio behind the series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off-beat vidcast Rocketboom, which last year &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketboom#Popularity"&gt;claimed a high&lt;/a&gt; of 300,000 daily downloads, &lt;a href="http://www.dembot.com/012473.html"&gt;recently said&lt;/a&gt; it made $210,000 in advertising for 2006, putting Ask A Ninja firmly at the head of an increasingly lucrative online video pack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carefully picking its destination sites, &lt;a href="http://www.federatedmedia.net"&gt;Federated Media&lt;/a&gt; handles advertising for some of the web's most popular tech blogs, including BoingBoing and Digg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</body-formatted>
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  &lt;strong&gt;A video podcast hosted by a balaclava-wearing geek has become &lt;em&gt;"the best-paid online video show in the business"&lt;/em&gt; after scoring a $300,000 advertising deal.&lt;/strong&gt;
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  &lt;a href="http://www.askaninja.com"&gt;Ask A Ninja&lt;/a&gt;, a regular online piece-to-camera comedy &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja"&gt;sketch&lt;/a&gt; which debuted in November 2005 and is currently &lt;a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/fm-publishing/john-battelles-expensive-new-recruit-232541.php"&gt;pulling in&lt;/a&gt; 154,000 unique visitors a month, &lt;a href="http://askaninja.com/node/2803"&gt;signed&lt;/a&gt; to have its ads handled by Federated Media.</extract-formatted>
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