Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThis is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot serve off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.
Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Flash… flash macromedia… the golden age.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well, no. It’s been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think people were doing it professionally as much back then.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People started doing it professionally when the ad money came in. Before that people did it for the love of the content, and it was lower production quality, but better content.