I'm surprised they didn't do this long ago. Hosting videos is expensive.
YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
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Youtube should not be watched by kids, it even has a minimum age of 13 in the TOS. Then what? PBS Kids FTW. No ads, no harmful content, and (probably much) less surveillance.
Youtube kids does not have the age 13 requirement.
It still has occasional inappropriate or dumb content and surveillance. Also unclear what % of parents bother with yt kids.
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#503I wonder if this applies to “made for kids” content which traditionally has not had ads
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"...and pretty much have their entire business on there..." This is what I don't get about YouTubers. They created a business with basically only one source of income. This is bad practice in every business book. I am a freelancer. If I only had one customer my business would be instantly over when they didn't hire me anymore. YouTubers put too much trust in an untrustworthy business partner.
I totally agree, but there simply isn't a good competitor to YouTube, so they're stuck. I know LTT (Linus Tech Tips) have tried to divest their content so its available on multiple platforms, but the one they used that was paid and ad free shutdown cause it wasn't profitable. They've now set up their own I think which other tech YouTubers also use. So some are trying to get away from YouTubes monopoly but many cant.
The channels do seem to split into other services on groups. Educational/explainer creators went to nebula (not sure who led that one), comedy/entertainment went to dropout.tv (from CollegeHumor), tech went to floatplane (from ltt), etc. There will be more of those and I can't wait to see who embraces/monetizes p2p first.
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#505I hope I'll be able to choose where the ads appear in my own videos. Ads playing in the middle of a sentence are really annoying.
Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
#506As a content consumer I see this as a positive thing for me. A few months ago when YouTube decided to auto-add ads on all videos, my watch time on YouTube decreased by more than 50% since I consume all video content on either my phone or my tablet (where I don't have access to AdBlock), and I find the amount of ads I have to go through to watch a video so annoying that I'd rather not watch it at all. As a result I sp…
> I consume all video content on either my phone or my tablet (where I don't have access to AdBlock)
There's a simple trick to get around this: don't use the YouTube app, use the website youtube.com. Adblockers work for YouTube's website on iOS.
The app is only marginally better than the website, so you won't be missing much.
Re: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
#507As a content consumer I see this as a positive thing for me. A few months ago when YouTube decided to auto-add ads on all videos, my watch time on YouTube decreased by more than 50% since I consume all video content on either my phone or my tablet (where I don't have access to AdBlock), and I find the amount of ads I have to go through to watch a video so annoying that I'd rather not watch it at all. As a result I sp…
That's a very good point! Add to that YT's abysmal organization of subscribed channels and their terrible recommendation engine. I have to say I really like it.
I’m subscribed to an old channel, with 200 videos that need to be watched in order. They are all long enough that I have to stop at least once in the middle, sometimes as many as 3 times. If I come back or switch devices, I have to go to my history to find the video I was watching, because recommendations either get the previous or next videos half the time.
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20 second unskippable ads about cat food (I don't have a cat) to watch a 1 minute video. No thanks YouTube!
It's worse when you have no idea if you're even _interested_ in the video you're going to sit through two unskippable ads to watch. It degrades the experience considerably.
I used to use the YouTube app on my firestick to stream music while working around the house. One of my favorite bands - who I personally know and who don't put any ads on their videos - releases entire albums in a single 30-40 minute long video.
YouTube now throws 4-6 ads in the middle of the videos, often right in the middle of the songs.
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#509I only use YouTube when searching for an instructional video, eg how to find the hidden reward in a game, how to cook or prepare a recipe, etc.
With ads on it’s a nightmare as when searching it takes a number of videos until I find the one I am looking for and each time I have to wait for 30 sec ad.
It’s so time wasting that I stopped using it.
I hope they continue the trend and the Google monster dies from inside.
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#510This will drive people to more apps that block ads on mobile