Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, according to the publication.

  This is so hilarious when you think about it.

  Are their movies and shows so bad that people are watching ads with as much attention?

  Or do they mean “pay as much attention” by ignoring the content altogether as they only run Netflix as background noise while they do something else?

  😂

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They very literally create shows and movies to be background noise and still be an understandable story. That’s why a lot of their originals are so bad if you sit down to watch them normally.

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• rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah this would still hit 100% of ads that have happened before now. And all linear tv ads on streams. Seriously willing to build it if anyone wants to work on it with me. Pm me

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• nullroot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fwiw I kinda wanna see what awful slop their generative ai ads will be. Literally the first time in years I’ve been mildly interested to see an ad. Not that I’ll stop blocking ads to see them, but, mildly interested.

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