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YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by chasing »

vlozko wrote: post #79

I don't understand why people are up in arms about this. It's as if people want their cake and eat it, too. Yes, I'm aware of questionable practices that YouTube does, such as monitizing off of dead people, but I'm still astounded that people are upset about this change. Specifically, I'm referring to the expectation that one can upload a video - for free - and allow it be distributed with millions of views to the wo…

People are (fairly) annoyed because that was the deal Google offered when they were uploading videos.

And if the change shouldn't shock users, then it certainly shouldn't be shocking to Google... In which case maybe they shouldn't have presented it as an option in the first place if they knew they would have to renege on the deal.

Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by sbarre »

lopis wrote: post #85

At least with TV, ads were scheduled and expected. The thing I hate the most about Youtube ads is how the intermission happens randomly and unexpectedly. It really spoils the whole experience of watching videos.

I wonder if YouTube could at least give creators the option to insert markers where they feel an ad would be least intrusive?

So at least, since they are forced to show ads, the ads can be at the right place?

Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by clankyclanker »

DanBC wrote: post #65

> Yes, the new Terms of Service allow ads to run on videos from non-YPP channels (so long as the video meets ad-friendly guidelines). So now all these smaller creators will just start their video with "hey cunts, how you doing today?"

Or they could use the opportunity to do activism which necessarily repulses advertisers.

* “Hey kids, here’s how the oil lobby caused climate change and screwed over your generation.” - Bam! No SUV ads.

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Post by jrootabega »

Verdex wrote: post #96

I hope they let creators decide where the ads go. Because otherwise, this is going to destroy ASMR videos. I can see it now. Person with insomnia listening to someone softly picking a mic with a q-tip about to drift off when all of a sudden HI LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CAR INSURANCE. From looking casually into the community, those channels have a lot of videos with millions and sometimes tens of millions of views. All of…

I've stopped watching songs over 8/10 minutes as a result of this. I'd be glad to watch a reasonable ad up front, but when I see a midroll, I bail.

Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by derefr »

secondcoming wrote: post #59
randlet wrote: post #32

Most of the creators I watch are switching to a combination of Patreon and in-video advertising "reads" (have you heard about Kiwi Co?!?) both of which cut Google out of the equation so it's not too surprising to me Google is cranking up the dial on their own advertisements.

I wonder how long YT will tolerate those in-video ads when YT Premium is supposed to allow for an ad-free experience. I'm also curious as to how the advertisers and YT channels come up with pricing. The advertisers will have no metrics on how often the ad was skipped over, and maybe it's a coincidence, but the channels seem to keep the in-video ad lengths to integer multiples of 'skip 10 seconds' button presses.

I’m curious why it’s not a feature of YT Premium to just auto-skip over the parts videos marked as being sponsored content (which the video creator has always needed to annotate the video with for legal reasons — it’s currently shown as a yellow-shaded area on the video timeline bar.)

Heck, I’m surprised and confused that YT hasn’t just required these embedded ads to be separated out into their own video streams, which YT then would embed back into the video seamlessly in the regular case, but would be able to drop out in the YT Premium case. (And could also swap out for other ads at a certain frequency — 30%, say?)

Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by clusterfish »

vlozko wrote: post #79

I don't understand why people are up in arms about this. It's as if people want their cake and eat it, too. Yes, I'm aware of questionable practices that YouTube does, such as monitizing off of dead people, but I'm still astounded that people are upset about this change. Specifically, I'm referring to the expectation that one can upload a video - for free - and allow it be distributed with millions of views to the wo…

Just tired of companies baiting users with free stuff to build market dominance and then dialing up profit extraction once they've killed off all possible competition. That's also your answer to why it wasn't done sooner.

This is not surprising at all, but not much you can do about it even if you see it coming, because other people don't see it coming or don't care. What are you gonna do about it as a user - all the creators are on YouTube. And as a creator - all the users are on YouTube. By design.

Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

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Post by everdrive »

peanut_worm wrote: post #90

I feel like YouTube as we knew it before is probably going to come to an end soon. Between youtube ads, ad reads, sponsors, patreon plugs and merch ads, it is either going to wind up looking like cable tv or it is going to die and make way for some paid service. I saw a video with a sponsor, a separate THREE MINUTE ad read for some stupid mobile game AND 2 youtube ads. The video was 10 minutes. I understand video cre…

I would be strongly surprised if ad-blockers keep working on Youtube indefinitely. And further, if youtube-dl continues to work.
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