Comment on A Novel Approach to Yotube Ads

• Wisely@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They give on everything else all the time. I wonder if expanding their ad business is the one exception though. They ran out of new users and already pack videos full of ads. Forcing them on people who block them is the only thing left for them to attempt as they seek to continue perpetual growth.

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ads are the very core of Google at this point. They are more likely to give up their search engine and the name Google before they give up their ad business.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately the videos with ads absolutely packed through them are largely due to the creators choosing the settings for extra monetization.

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    • PhantomPhreak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Content creators can choose how many ads show, if at all? I did know that, thank you.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Youtube just made changes that prevent creators from choosing to only allow skippable ads. Now youtube chooses what type of ads to run at the start and end of a video.

      The only choice creators have is to enable or disable mid-roll ads, and where to place them (but the default is to allow youtube to make those choices too)

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think they’ve gone all in yet.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re definitely burning more money than they would gain from winning the battle

  Maybe at the moment, but I suspect part of the motivation for this is that they are trying to prevent another “adpocalypse” type boycott from their advertisers.

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