Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 months agoThey pay some creators a pittance, and can revoke that amount and/or ability at any time, for any reason, even for reasons which are not listed in their terms, are factually inaccurate, or otherwise allows them to fuck the creator. Yt is like the waitstaff in the US, “yeah we pay them” ($3 an hour and the rest has to come from elsewhere to make ends meet).
Call me when you see a 90 second sponsor segment for SquareSpace in your next Netflix show.
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh boy, I have bad news.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Product placement is not a literal advertisement shoehorned into an otherwise unrelated media.
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
YouTube does not have the authority to dictate what content creators include in their video, nor do they charge them for content they promote. The way in which YouTube generates revenue is through ads and subscriptions. Other streaming services do the same; the only difference is semantics.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ll refrain from further arguments as the last hasn’t been touch on: product placement is not persistent sponsorships or advertising. We only see this on YouTube as they do not pay creators a fair amount of the cut, and thus creators need to augment their yt income. We don’t see any James Bond/007 movies where he has a flat tire and breaks the fourth wall to ask the viewer if they have AA service, as ‘it is very useful and quite affordable’ with a 20% discount voucher for opening weekend viewers, shown at the bottom of the screen. ‘that’s theaa.com, and tell them James sent you’ before cutting to the next scene where the Aston is arriving at the hotel on a flatbed.
Merely driving the Aston without the AA bit, as a form of product placement, isn’t exactly advertising in the same sense. There is realism and there is peddling out of necessity.