Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Flash… flash macromedia… the golden age.

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, no. It’s been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think people were doing it professionally as much back then.

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  • 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.

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