Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hear me out: Google makes money by selling ads. People who buy from those ads don’t have an adblocker installed. People who are intelligent enough to block ads wouldn’t buy from them anyway. If Google allows it to be too easy to block ads then their model collapses. I’m ok with jumping through a couple hoops to continue to block and Google doesn’t lose anything while I get to still watch the content I like without wasting anyone’s time. It’s to Google’s benefit to serve videos to only people who will actually buy that crap anyway. If Google or anyone wants to sell to me, they simply have to make a great product. If they do, I’ll see it in use for it’s intended purpose and buy it. For example, I didn’t have to watch any ads to buy a Nintendo Switch years ago…
nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 year ago
I feel like I’m summoning a roko’s basilisk here, but here we go:
Google should entice people to watch the ads. They should slip in random “free YouTube premium for a month just for you!” ads or quick time events or whatever that you only get when you don’t block ads.
“Thanks for watching the ad! Here’s an extra 10GB of storage, or points to our store, or whatever!”
Giving out free whatever premiums to your gigantic ass ecosystem to some tiny ass percent of your users will EASILY increase eyeballs faaaaaar more than this blocking shit.
TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s a good idea. Another one that may be effective is Google has AI process the video and they drop links in the text below the video based on company $. For example, Cool Shirts Inc. gives ad money to Google for their t-shirts. AI processes all new videos and checks for Cool Shirt Inc shirts. If the video has the shirt in it then this is added in text below the video, “Dig the creator’s shirt? Get it here for: link.to.shirt.com/buynow”. Non-intrusive, fairly good targeting and if I do like something in the video I can check there to purchase or look into it more.
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I really like this idea. That would be such a step up from the way most ads are done now, and much less annoying. It would also be pretty effective I would think, because a lot of people use YouTube to learn more about their hobbies. So by putting ads for the products actually used in the video, it is automatically advertising to the perfect demographic of people who are much more likely use those products.