Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 days 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 days ago
Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 days 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 2 days ago
Flash… flash macromedia… the golden age.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well, no. It’s been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think people were doing it professionally as much back then.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 days 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.