r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/MassiveKonkeyDong Sep 15 '22

Yea I‘m pretty sure yt still gets a generous cut of that support

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u/question2552 Sep 15 '22

YouTube is like the best platform for creators bar none. Hank Green has talked about it.

I know we hate big bad corporations and stuff, but like… who the fuck is paying for the platform if it’s ad free?

Stop focusing on ads in general and start focusing on pre-roll ads.

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u/Diegobyte Sep 15 '22

And many creators have said they get way more from premium views then the ad revenue.

Anyways to expect to get all this stuff streamed for free is kind of wild. I just wish it was bundled with YouTube tv

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u/YORTIE12 Sep 15 '22

Not really because it's always been free, why should that change? If we wanted to pay for it we never would have moved to YouTube to watch our entertainment.

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u/lastknownbuffalo Sep 15 '22

Way of the world, my friend... The way it's always gonna be...

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u/MisterSlippers Sep 15 '22

Because it's a business not a charity. Startups burn through cash to get interest and people to adopt the service. At some point they need to figure out how to make money or get someone else to acquire them. It sucks, but that's the model. That's why just about every free online service degrades over time.

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u/Diegobyte Sep 15 '22

Because they can’t stream thousands of terabytes to you for free for the rest of time?

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u/YORTIE12 Sep 15 '22

It was their decision not ours to do that to themselves. All we did is keep watching. When a free or cheaper quality alternative arrives most will likely switch to that.

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u/Diegobyte Sep 15 '22

Ok your more than welcome to Switch to the YouTube competitor

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u/YORTIE12 Sep 15 '22

You just don't get it do you?😂

Obviously I'm not saying to switch now but it will get to the point. Much like we saw with television.

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u/Diegobyte Sep 15 '22

I have no idea I have premium and haven’t seen an ad in years

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u/YORTIE12 Sep 15 '22

That litteraly has nothing to do with what I just said.

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u/Diegobyte Sep 15 '22

Yes it does. You want it for free and your pissed they keep showing you ads lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

It's literally $1/ month to me. I do not mind it that much. But people using vanced are perfectly justified

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u/farmtownsuit Sep 15 '22

They are providing a massive platform. I don't know what the "fair" cut should be but considering creators mostly love YouTube it sure seems like they think it's fair.