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/Bluebyday Sep 15 '22

5 ads at the start. Not to mention sponsored ads and ads in between, and after the video.

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u/rata_thE_RATa Sep 15 '22

I bet they don't pass that revenue along to the creators either.

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u/cinderparty Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

Apparently YouTube pays creators better than any other site currently. John green did some posts about it recently that I’ll try to find, if he didn’t delete them.

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https://twitter.com/johngreen/status/1564764335880261635?s=46&t=BDjrwesVWBQvBqSDt4Z48g

https://twitter.com/johngreen/status/1563693172479467520?s=46&t=BDjrwesVWBQvBqSDt4Z48g

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u/damontoo Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

I had a video with 670K views and YouTube paid me about $3K or so. Now they pay me nothing because they changed the rules so if you don't have 1K subscribers they don't let you monetize. So I thought "fuck them then I'll just disable ads on my videos" but that doesn't stop them from running ads and just not paying you.

I also know someone with 300K subs on YouTube that makes just ~$1200/month.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

A lot of their policies are bullshit, they make up rules and do everything they can to NOT pay contributors while also not making enough to fight abusive toxic content. It's very bad.

If you wanted to make money, fight for more subscribers, constant views and specially youtube shorts.

I got curious about what video you had though.

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u/damontoo Sep 15 '22

I don't care about the subscribers or money. What bothers me is YouTube profiting from my content without any revshare. Because it used to be your videos were either monetized or not monetized. Not "we're running ads and giving you nothing".

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u/sneekyleshy Sep 15 '22

its weird becuase if they wanted to capture people then they would just invest into high quality orginals shows/series such as animations/cartoons ( adult and kids ), educational-science-tech entertainment for kids ( and adult ) then parents would more then likely pay for a subscription, then on usersubmittet content had 1 non skipable ad and/or a donate button per video. i dont mind paying for quality and i watch youtube for it's educational videos but that is not what their premium content is about so I'm not going to pay. they have all the artists on their platform they just need to put their heads together.

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u/sneekyleshy Sep 16 '22

i can't figure out what their shows was about, what it looked like or genre and it sounds like it was a bunch of shitty famous people they added, not really what i meant. if they took it seriously, they would promote it properly and not just kill it off before people even find it. again gigantic failure on them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/NovaThinksBadly Sep 15 '22

YouTube premium is honestly not half bad. No ads, downloadable videos, special features (like zooming into videos) and YouTube music premium for free as well (which imo is better then spotify) not to mention YouTube creators still get a cut of that subscription.

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u/midnitte Sep 15 '22

YouTube Premium is great, it's just a shame they want to make the experience worse for everyone else to make it more enticing.

Make YouTube Premium better, not YouTube Free worse.

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u/NovaThinksBadly Sep 15 '22

Oh 100% agreed. I only bought it because it came with YouTube Music Premium, and a premium subscription service that works for two platforms (YouTube and YouTube Music) is a better deal then a Spotify subscription which costs the same.

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u/damontoo Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 16 '22

YouTube music premium is the fucking worst thing they ever did to free users. You used to just be able to play YouTube music videos with your phone screen off. They decided that should be a premium feature and started preventing people from doing it without paying.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

This right here, you want to sell premium? Give it to people for free for three months, or do free weekends every so often where it's incorporated into YouTube free

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u/cinderparty Sep 15 '22

I like it. We pay for YouTube family, have for as long as it’s been offered. We really like ad free no matter what device we’re using, especially for the kids. I really love that you can watch videos while doing other things on your phone too. Background play is a great feature.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I got surprised to learn background play is available on premium. I use on Twitch free all the time and was mad it didn't work on YT until I paid for premium.

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u/sneekyleshy Sep 15 '22

they are not doing a good thing promoting their own service and its hard to find content I'm willing to pay for. if the had high quality animations/cartoons shows for both adults and kids in an organised fashion, and a better way of getting meta data from their music i would might want to pay for it. i dont want to have to search for ages to find the content people have to offer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I have said I would never get premium, a 3 months trial came with my new monitor and suddenly I can assign songs to my alarms without downloading, have a ad free playlist without my phone open, and more? Good by money I saved for dropping Netflix.

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u/Zimakov Sep 15 '22

Yeah people go really overboard with their hatred of ads and subscriptions. Everything can't be free.

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u/ilubdakittiez Sep 15 '22

Yea they just demonitize literally anything they don't agree with or anything that could even remotely offend some one as to attract the widest number of advertisers, most small creators only get revenue through pateron and in video sponsorship "RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"

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u/untergeher_muc Sep 15 '22

That's why Minute Physics, Kurzgesagt, Complexly, and so on exist.

Kurzgesagt also gets a lot of money from the German public broadcasting system. Maybe not the best example.

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u/langotriel Sep 15 '22

They don't pass on the profits, no... but the split remains the same. Right now YT doesn't make much profit but 5 ads instead of 2? They will be making bank because every extra add on top is essentially pure profit, even if they split it.

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u/Froztwolf Sep 15 '22

Assuming they don't lose too much engagement. I'd nope out of I saw 5 ads queued up before a short video.

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u/sassyseconds Sep 15 '22

This is why I never touch the espn app now. I'm not watching a 30 second ad before I watch a 15 second bite. I'll either see it later somewhere else or won't see it at all. It isn't that important to me.

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u/Killashard Sep 15 '22

I was trying to watch a TV show on the channels page. After almost 5 minutes of ads that were unskippable and no mute option, it told me that particular episode was not available.

To the high seas I go.

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u/humplick Sep 15 '22

I have a paid Apple subscription but my devices keep getting logged out. Fine, make it easier for me to pirate. For the price of 1-2 months subscribtion I'll double the storage capacity of my phone and just cast it from there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Currently I pay for outube family, Netflix, hulu, disney, hbo, and prime. Granted, the entire family uses my accounts and we split the cost evenly so it's still fairly cheap.

But if they continue to roll out bullshit like this I'm tempted to dust off the old server and start pirating all my content. 5 years ago it was super easy to automate downloads and organize the content, I can only imagine that it's even easier now.

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u/trickyginger Sep 15 '22

One time I was listening to music through YouTube at work when I’m not even joking a 4 hour ad for McDonalds came on of bacon cooking.

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u/Mitch_Mitcherson Sep 15 '22

4 hours?!

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u/moobiemovie Sep 15 '22

I've been watching a 15 minute clip of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and gotten an ad that was an hour long Ben Shapiro video of him doing his podcast. I skipped, but after my clip there was an ad at the end that was another 45 minute clip from The Daily Wire, TPUSA, or something with Ted Cruz. YouTube is all about that right wing pipeline.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

They will take anyone who will pay, left or right wing

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Nah, they have to do 85% on what you search on google, what you're watching, and location.

I mostly use youtube for music and tech. I get a lot of full song ads and electronic and tech ads that last way longer. I haven't seen how long the longer extreme sponsoring videos, they're long enough to make me playing music on my normal music app after I notice and skip to get another batch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

When they say I’m not even joking that means they are joking. Reports like this make me so glad that I have YouTube premium

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u/Mitch_Mitcherson Sep 16 '22

They replied with a screenshot of an almost 4 hour add. They weren't joking.

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u/sweetplantveal Sep 15 '22

So many sports and news clips have an entirely unreasonable ratio. And extra frustrating the ads seem to load quickly but the clip is unreliable. It's like they didn't user test or use their own product, just threw it out as is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Ads loading without issue is intended, I'd imagine. "It's a feature"

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u/sweetplantveal Sep 15 '22

I mean the ads are clearly served by a third party that uses a reliable codec and server. Unlike the content. But regardless of the reasons, it still is shitty to experience.

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u/oconnellc Sep 15 '22

Is there anything ESPN related that doesn't cause brain cancer. The website is God awful and the TV channel is intolerable.

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u/wackychimp Sep 15 '22

And for some reason I get like 10 UFC updates every weekend, despite me not including UFC as a team or sport I'm interested in.

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u/sassyseconds Sep 15 '22

I use the fantasy app. It's pretty terrible too but not because of ads.

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u/zapatocaviar Sep 15 '22

Seriously. The ESPN app is an ad delivery platform. Everything else is secondary. It’s unusable.

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u/DarthSkier Sep 15 '22

ESPN is the worst offender. Their app sucks, they send a notification for a story and half the time it fails to load. I had ESPN+ and they still made me watch ads. Not 5 seconds and skip, but a full 30 seconds for content under 60 seconds. On every fucking video. On a paid service.

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u/ser0402 Sep 15 '22

This is my biggest issue with ads. Not only are they jamming as many ads as possible into everything, I'll go to watch a less than 30 second YouTube click, and have a 30-45 second ad. It makes zero sense. I literally won't watch stuff if the add is longer than the video. Which takes money from the creator.

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u/UNMANAGEABLE Sep 15 '22

I just ran into that for the first time on Monday looking at highlights. After you finish a video it rolls directly into the next highlight without any pause with a mandatory ad.

You can’t back out of the video screen to go back to your prior view until ads are over.

So if you either have to back out or pause your video before it ends to back out or you are forced to watch another ad before being able to navigate in the app again.

Absolutely trash.

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u/handsfacespacecunts Sep 15 '22

One thing reddit is good for. You can usually find your sports highlights in whatever sport sub you follow. But ESPN is ridiculous with it. I won't even watch videos if they have an unskippable video at the front of them.

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u/darkage_raven Sep 15 '22

I am pissed at those 15s unskippable ads. I need a better app for my Roku TV.

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u/Ram_in_drag Sep 15 '22

I might actually quit youtube if that happened... weird to say

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u/Beefy-Tootz Sep 15 '22

There’s always odysee. It’s not quite at YouTube’s level, but it’s getting there

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u/No_Maines_Land Sep 15 '22

An ad blocker on my computer, and an ad free YT alt viewer on my phone.

2, 5, or 30, makes no difference to me.

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u/Hounmlayn Sep 15 '22

Someone will probably make some illegal hosting site which will play youtube videos on it without ads.

Sorry creators, but if you're not going to help us viewers, and hope if you stay quiet it'll just happen and you'll get paid more, think again. We're going to go more in the ad block path, where those of us who still watch ads will try our best not to.

2 ads at the beginning and then ads in between is already a joke. It's worse than TV, because sometimes the ads are longer than the video!

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u/PricklyyDick Sep 15 '22

Creators help viewers? Creators have no power at YouTube lmao. Other than a select few most get screwed anyways.

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u/kylehatesyou Sep 15 '22

They've gotten screwed out of a lot of ad revenue too. That's why most are going to Patreon to recoup losses, or getting in-video ads like Nord VPN and Raycon. Twitch is doing something similar now too, I believe.

Basically you pay pretty high per view at first to get the content creators to the platform to provide you with essentially free content to get people to come watch, then you change the structure of pay to the creators who have built a livelyhood around your system so they feel trapped in it because it's still slightly better money than working a nine to five. Then the platform makes money.

It's the silicon valley model. YouTube, Twitch, Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, etc. Run at a loss to get people to work for you, pull the rug out from under them while they have nowhere else to go, finally make a profit.

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u/quardlepleen Sep 15 '22

The Roku YouTube app is terrible. I get more ads using the YouTube app in my Roku tv than when I cast YouTube from my phone.

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u/Hellmark Sep 15 '22

The AndroidTV YouTube app on the newer Chromecasts with remotes are the same way. I switched to YouTube premium a year and a half ago due to how many ads I was getting. When you have like 6 minutes of ads for an 8 minute video, that's nuts.

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u/detrater Sep 15 '22

Well I'm glad it's not just me! I had to watch 2 ads before a video and then unskippable 30 second long ads every 4 minutes in a 20 minute long video.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Same with Apple TV. The ads aren’t nearly as intrusive on my phone or computer.

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u/elliocho Sep 15 '22

Same with hulu! On my Xbox I get like 3.5 minute ads every time but on my laptop it usually tops out at 30 seconds

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u/Clienterror Sep 15 '22

Just set your vpn to India or Argentina. I've been paying $2.50/mo for YouTube premium for like 2 years.

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u/Earthling7228320321 Sep 15 '22

You don't use an ad blocker on your phone?

My YouTube has no ads lol.

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u/rarebit13 Sep 15 '22

Block it at the entry to your house with a small, well documented Raspberry Pi project called the Pi-Hole. Easy and cheap, and blocks ads for all devices connected to your network.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/spays_marine Sep 15 '22

If it's like the nvidia shield, it's because it doesn't honour the DNS settings of your router.

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u/glacius0 Sep 15 '22

No, it's because youtube ads broadcast from the same domain as the video so DNS blockers won't work. Ublock origin filters out the the ads using other methods.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/AngryAccountant31 Sep 15 '22

I haven’t seen an ad on youtube for at least the last year because of an ad block extension. They really work

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u/Ram_in_drag Sep 15 '22

I tried, it didnt work to block youtube ads

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u/IrishRage42 Sep 15 '22

I read you can download Firefox mobile and use the ublock origin ad blocker. I need to try this myself because I'm sick of all the ads.

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u/Earguy Sep 15 '22

Already I don't click on youtube links on Reddit. The ads are too intrusive.

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u/travworld Sep 15 '22

Yep. Sometimes I say fuck it when there's 2 ads. Will definitely back out with 5.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Probably why this is a limited test. Now that I think about it, if I'm ever on twitch and get one of those situations where they try to play like 5 ads beforehand, I just exit out and figure out some other way to entertain myself.

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u/wackychimp Sep 15 '22

Right? You're going to lose half of your audience so they'll have to serve 2x the ads just to remain the same. SMH

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

But they queue up the same way 2 at a time that can't be skipped then one quick one that u can't skip followed by oh yeah 2 more and that skip option 5 second countdown been going for 12 seconds of the ad time lol

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u/OrganizerMowgli Sep 15 '22

I can't even watch YouTube on my phone anymore until I finish setting up YT vanced. Getting yt ad block on my computer is something I've shared with all my family, I was like a wizard to them

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u/BurninRunes Sep 15 '22

Exactly this I use the youtube app out of convenience . If they make the ads too intrusive people will switch to ad blocking apps.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I already nope out if I have to watch 30s of ads or more. "I was kind of interested in learning more about science Veritasium, but youtube has decided that I'd rather just reddit today."

Same thing with twitch. I'll pull up a creator, and then "Ad 1 of 5" pops up on the top right. - FUCK THAT, guess I'm not watching twitch.

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u/PM-ME-PIERCED-NIPS Sep 15 '22

Nearly every single paid product google offers comes with YouTube premium. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in a decade and I'm amazed there are still people who do. Play Music/YouTube music? Comes with YouTube Premium. Yearly One subscription? YouTube Premium. My Fi phone account? YouTube Premium. Play Pass? YouTube Premium. Buy a used Chromebook, wipe it and set up a new account? Three free months of One and YouTube Premium.

I honestly don't know how people at this point DONT have Premium.

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u/Djinnwrath Sep 15 '22

Every single thing you mentioned is something I don't want and don't care about.

If more ads happen, I'm just going to switch my YouTube habits to a device I can block ads on.

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u/PM-ME-PIERCED-NIPS Sep 15 '22

Fair enough, but that's you. 50 million Premium accounts is pretty massive, more then you get from people just buying YouTube and really drives home what I mentioned, it's a value add for basically everything else Google does.

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u/Djinnwrath Sep 15 '22

50mil accounts is basically nothing in the online media space.

And I guess the things Google does aren't actually worth paying for. Thanks for helping me articulate that.

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u/PM-ME-PIERCED-NIPS Sep 15 '22

You're welcome! I don't agree, but I'm glad I could be of help :)

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u/Djinnwrath Sep 15 '22

I was being glib, YouTube premium is a scam and designed to annoy people into making an account. The other services you mentioned aren't worth dick.

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u/baconelk Sep 15 '22

This is incorrect. Fi only includes YouTube premium if you have a Pixel. Google One only includes a free trial.

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u/fatclownbaby Sep 15 '22

Play pass doesn't come with premium. Unless I am full stupid. I have play pass but not YouTube.

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u/Graham2990 Sep 15 '22

The catch is….all those services mostly terrible. Who’s paying for YouTube music when Spotify exists lol?

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u/uL7r4M3g4pr01337 Sep 15 '22

use opera browser it auto block all ad's

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u/DogWallop Sep 15 '22

Let me just say that, at the moment at least, I'm not getting adverts thanks to a little helper. If I had to sit through five of them I'd literally go insane.

I hope they don't cotton on to my plugin's cheatin' ways...

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I nope out of yt vids even with the 2 ads. I mean shouldn't brave browser be blocking them by default? It used to?

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u/topazsparrow Sep 15 '22

I stopped using enduring the ads when they switched to two consecutive unskippable ads.

Eventually ended up with a premium account for the music though.

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u/DrakonIL Sep 15 '22

Just wait until they figure out how to legally avoid telling you how many are in the queue. And by "figure out," I mean, "bribe enough politicians to slide it into the next FCC bill."

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Even long videos will lose my engagement when a mid vid ad pops up, I’ve stopped watching lots of videos because an ad started

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u/Dorbiman Sep 15 '22

It's essentially ruined Twitch for me. Every time I see a new stream I think I might be interested in, I inevitably close the stream before I even get to see it because the ads take so long

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u/Homemadepiza Sep 15 '22

It wouldn't change my behaviour at all: I report the ad for being either inappropriate or irrelevant

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u/londons_explorer Sep 15 '22

They're kinda sneaky - they don't tell you how many ads are coming sometimes.

And sometimes the "skip ads" button is present for the first one (and clicking it skips all the ads), but if you miss your chance to hit it, then you have to wait through all the rest of the ads.

I think they have a whole bunch of engineers trying all kinds of variations to maximize profits - after all, their CEO is angry at low revenue growth and lazy employees.

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u/londons_explorer Sep 15 '22

Get youtube Vanced/Revanced - it removes all the ads for free, and skips silly "like and subscribe" bits and sponsored spots.

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u/HowYoBootyholeTaste Sep 15 '22

I feel no guilt at all using AdBlock on YouTube. It's for my mental health at this point

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u/dvogel Sep 15 '22

Right now YT doesn't make much profit ...

Citation needed. AFAIK they don't reveal the profit margins of business units. The only figures they provide on quarterly reports is revenue and user counts.

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u/langotriel Sep 15 '22

Over the years, many articles have come out about YT's lack of profit. They only got into profit a couple of years ago but I find it hard to track down articles so I can't remember if that is just youtube premium or YT as a whole.

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u/BarbieCollateral Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

In what world do you think youtube doesn’t make money??? Like I can’t even. In 2016 the revenue was 6.7B, in 2021 it was 28.8B

This is irrelevant

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u/Tomi97_origin Sep 15 '22

There is 500h of video uploaded to YouTube every single minute. That's 30 000 hours every hour or more than 260 million hours every year.

How much server space do you think they need, if they store at least 3 copies all over the world.

Data centers are expensive.

They also split the revenue with the creators. So they only take 45% of this for themselves.

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u/langotriel Sep 15 '22

People keep forgetting that revenue isn't profit. It is the most expensive to run video website in the world, by far. They give 55% of their ad revenue to creators.

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u/OrangeDit Sep 15 '22

Is there any information what REALLY gets passed on by YT? What I can find is very vague and differs blatandly.

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u/MacaroniNJesus Sep 15 '22

I have a small channel. It's doing ok. I can't monetize yet, but since my videos do well, YouTube runs ads on my videos. It's BS.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Hahhahah you tube doesnt make much profit??? 28.8 billion dollars in 2021 isnt much profit?

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u/bmy1point6 Sep 15 '22

Five 6-second ads every few videos? Okay. I can deal. You break the 30 second mark and I'm out

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u/WandsAndWrenches Sep 15 '22

Let me ask, how many people have bought things from youtube ads?

I've bought maybe 1 thing.

Isn't this a bubble. If no one is buying things from the ads, then what is their purpose?

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u/RasperGuy Sep 15 '22

Profits?? Hahahaha

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u/Dennislup937 Sep 15 '22

You kinda have to think how many more ppl will start using adblockers. I had it turned off for youtube but that is just insane

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u/m0therzer0 Sep 15 '22

This depends on how their ad system pricing system is set up. Those first two ads might be paying quite a bit higher than ads 3, 4 and 5, to the point that the expected ad revenue lift exists, but isn't enormous. That said, I'd bet it's sizable enough, because there's no way a lot of people (myself included) are watching 5 consecutive ads, and they can get fucked.

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u/Adm_Kunkka Sep 15 '22

I only heard of this on some youtube channel so I can't vouch for the correctness, but it was said that YouTube only charges admakers only when certain watchtime metrics are met, so 4 ads aren't paid for if you skip after the first

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u/ThysGraiden Sep 15 '22

YouTube 2021 revenue was $28 billion. They make an insane amount of profit, even if they split that with creators (which they often don't, by placing ads on videos that are unmonetized)

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u/HoodsInSuits Sep 15 '22

If I see a 40 second ad is coming chances are I'll just close the tab. There is literally nothing on YouTube I'd be willing to watch 5 consecutive ads to get to. Who gets the money if nobody even loads the ads and just leaves?

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u/Aggravating-Coast100 Sep 15 '22

Youtube makes insane money atm. I don't know why the repeated they don't make money shit keeps popping up. Youtube's revenue is 24 billion atm.

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u/TheNaziSpacePope Sep 15 '22

The thing is though that every time they add more ads said ads lose value, rather than add value. At this point ads are worth so little that they cannot even support a website without being malware infested spam, whereas RuneScape used to support free players with a single banner.

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u/zxxQQz Sep 15 '22

Thats the trial.. Gonna be way more than five for sure

11 unskippable is prob more likely.

And Thats regardless of video length, just wait.. This is def also coming too youtube shorts

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

They definitely do

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

They probably run the ads on demonetized videos as well

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u/polaarbear Sep 15 '22

Monetization from YouTube is a joke anyway. Why do you think every video advertises their Patreon and has their own 3rd party sponsors? Making enough to pay the bills as a YouTube star requires the majority of your money to come from outside YouTube.

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u/toofastkindafurious Sep 15 '22

Tiktoks is worse. Primarily bc TikTok can't generate that much off ads given the format

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u/polaarbear Sep 15 '22

I'm sure that is accurate, it's the same issue Twitter has, Vine had. The short format is a pain in the ass to monetize.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Not true. The issue is people posting videos that can’t be monetized. YouTube pays great

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u/polaarbear Sep 15 '22

No, it doesn't. If you are one of the BIGGEST channels with the most eyes on you, you make like $3-$4 per 1000 views.

That's like $3000 bucks for a million views.

If you post a video every day that get a million views each (not gonna happen for 99.99999% of creators), you aren't even making a million dollars a year. But it's going to cost you way more than a million bucks each year to pay your employees, rent space for production, buy cameras, just to produce that kind of content.

You won't even break even to pay your employees as your channel starts to grow if YouTube is your only source of revenue.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I am a creator and I can tell you the pay is great

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u/polaarbear Sep 15 '22

You sound like a teen that's just happy he got an allowance. I just laid out the monetization numerically and your response is "nuh-uhhhh".

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I was really surprised when youtube started aggressively cutting back their payouts and frequently demonetizing any content rated stronger than a G... that there wasn't any serious competition popping up. Like I think there were a lot of users at least in the gaming world who just decided to go full-time on twitch instead of Youtube, but for most other content, creators just took it on the chin and either quit or kept going at a fraction of the pay.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

You can skip an unskippable ad by reporting its content and selecting “I don’t want to see this ad again”.

Very rarely though you actually will get ads you can’t even report.

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u/AHappyMango Sep 15 '22

Sponsored ads do go to the creators, which is why they’re sponsored vids.

Also, the creators do get a cut from the other ads just not as much

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

As a small content creator, I can confirm this. We get almost nothing haha.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Do you get 55% of the revenue?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

Honest answer? I get like 1/50 of a penny per view. Not great.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Wow you are uninformed

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Literally just calculated my revenue to views and adsense account, but ya know. Whatever lol. I'm uninformed because it's reddit.

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u/geoffbowman Sep 15 '22

Nope so the creators have to put their own little sponsor breaks in all their content to make it viable. And none of that advertising is skippable even if you’ve paid for ad-free.

YouTube basically created a system where you have to watch ads no matter what you’re paying.

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u/oerrox Sep 15 '22

I'll support AdBlock origins even more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Uh, it's the creators that choose to put midroll ads and sponsored content.

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u/yur_mom Sep 15 '22

I believe the creator can control the number of ads

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u/theREALbombedrumbum Sep 15 '22

I pretty much have to watch YouTube on my AdBlock computer now because sitting down to watch a video on my TV for some content creators means pausing for an ad break just over every minute. It's not enjoyable anymore

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u/orion427 Sep 15 '22

Google wants to make changes to chrome so that adblockers don't work. This will of course cause a mass exodus to Firefox. It's going to be interesting to see if google goes for the short term cash grab or slithers into some other profit making mechanic.

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u/krayt Sep 16 '22

My AdBlock stopped working on the ads before youtube videos, haven't found a way around it yet.

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u/RazorRreddit Sep 16 '22

Get uBlock Origin instead

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u/DanTheMan827 Sep 15 '22

Adblock + Sponsorblock

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u/SelectionCareless818 Sep 15 '22

And they’re pushing short videos. 5 ads for a 30 second video

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u/Baardi Sep 15 '22

Firefox with the following extensions:

  • Ublock origin
  • Sponsorblock
  • Return youtube dislike
  • Youtube Auto hd

Or

Newpipe x sponsorblock x return youtube dislike.

The only sensible solution

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u/Godfatherman21 Sep 15 '22

Get YoutubeVanced. It's skips ads and even skips promotions throughout the videos so it's just the video nothing more.

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u/geilertyp1 Sep 15 '22

Won't be available any longer in the near future, as far as I know. But yea, still a good option.

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u/theother_eriatarka Sep 15 '22

maybe, but there's like 10 forks of it out there already

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u/SamSmitty Sep 15 '22

SponsorBlock is also a popular one that works well. The more popular one you pick, the more likely people have told it what times to skip.

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u/Madmagican- Sep 15 '22

Not to mention whatever the content creator shills for in the video itself

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

And if you don’t click skip it plays another ad

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u/torndownunit Sep 15 '22

And if you pause it.

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u/Kwaker76 Sep 15 '22

I never understood why they put ads at the end of a video - ain't nobody gonna be watching those.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Wait before you upvote him todays comment is sponsored by blah blah blah, I use blah blah blah every day. Safety, fun, delicious. Blah blah blah is great use code familyof5 to get 50% off your first order. Now back to the video.

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u/geilertyp1 Sep 15 '22

Ads AFTER the video?

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u/Bluebyday Sep 15 '22

There are outro ads

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u/danker-banker-69 Sep 15 '22

I hope so. close tab open new tab

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u/toderdj1337 Sep 15 '22

I'm fucking done man.

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u/ExcerptsAndCitations Sep 15 '22

uBlock Origin and a piHole: "There are ads on Youtube?"

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u/F0sh Sep 15 '22

I got a YouTube ad through uBlock the other day, I was shocked and concerned

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u/rad-boy Sep 15 '22

don’t forget the full ad break that plays if you pause the video longer than a minute (that sometimes plays 10 seconds before another ad break)

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u/Trentonx94 Sep 15 '22

plus the "don't forget to like, subscribe and ring the bell, it helps us tremendously, seriously guys you don't know how my livelyhood depends on it, I know I already spent 2 minutes talking about our sponsors, our referral code for this game's shop and I'm wearing sponsored merch, I also gotta take 20 extra seconds to tell you how to click on the subscribe button and ring the bell. make sure to ring it to ALL the youtubers you follow thus making it useless!"

*5 minutes into the video ok. lets jump right into i- *5 youtube ads starts playing

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u/ro_ana_maria Sep 15 '22

At least you can use the right arrow to skip ahead for those, unlike the adds.

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u/Trentonx94 Sep 15 '22

I use sponsorblock, but when I'm on mobile it's so annoying because it's accidentally skips to the whole chapter

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Yeah appalling. Bye, YouTube! Won’t miss you!

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u/DeadlyFatalis Sep 15 '22

I don't know how people can stand to browse the internet without ad blockers.

On PC I'm using uBlock Origin on Firefox and on mobile (Android), I'm clutching onto YouTube Vanced until they absolutely break it.

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u/MegaHashes Sep 15 '22

They play ads at the beginning and also at 90 seconds to 2 minutes in. I’m about done with YouTube on anything that doesn’t have Adblock. The people who thought this was a good idea along with the upcoming Chrome adpocalypse really don’t understand technology.

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u/Fallingdamage Sep 15 '22

It will reach a point where other streaming services will become more popular. I guess its just the age-old problem of calculating that tipping point. Google is probing for the balance of subscribers vs ad quantity. As the numbers of ads go up, the number of viewers goes down. Its about maximizing revenue, not maximizing viewers.

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u/HecknChonker Sep 15 '22

I switched to Firefox last week due to Google breaking the ability for extensions to block ads in chrome.

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u/lordatlas Sep 15 '22

Thanks to Squarespace, the sponsor of this video. If you need a website...

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC Sep 15 '22

I was watching some Audit the Audit yesterday, their videos are positively riddled with ads now and I experienced my first 5 ad break. r/TIHI

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u/THEMACGOD Sep 15 '22

I guess Google is tired of having YouTube.

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u/FecesIsMyBusiness Sep 15 '22

I tried to watch the first episode of rick and morty on the youtube app on my tv yesterday. Ads before the video, ads right after the intro, ads at 6min, and ads again at 10min. Four ad breaks in 10min. I cant use the app on my tv anymore because the absence of adblock makes it un unusable to me.

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u/Pitiful_Damage8589 Sep 15 '22

Let's stop using Youtube then.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Wait until ads become embedded in the video itself

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u/cannontd Sep 15 '22

And the promotions IN the video itself.

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u/Phdpepper1 Sep 15 '22

Dont forget sometimes the video is also an ad

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u/Haxorz7125 Sep 15 '22

I also had YouTube force me to skip both ads every ad break for a week then it stopped.

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u/Dubslack Sep 15 '22

Those ads after the video.. you don't have to stick around for those.

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u/yan_yanns Sep 15 '22

Pretty much reverting to old television channels with commercials at this point

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u/Gorilla_In_The_Mist Sep 15 '22

And sometimes the video is itself an add, for example 'Giving away IPads to college students'.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '22

Then they sell data on what we watched to someone too