Comment by jasode
5 years ago
Yes, Youtube ads are getting more aggressive. Instead of just 1 ad per interruption (either pre-roll or mid-roll), it's multiple ads in succession. Instead of a few interruptions, it has increased to many interruptions. Unlike you, I don't get the yellow bars in the timeline that show where the ad spots are anymore.
Many Youtubers have made videos about the aggressive ad changes. Here's one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_tkS4dvi8A
I don't know if any new definitive statistics are out but some Youtubers complain that they don't seem to be getting any additional money even though viewers are bombarded with more ads.
This is exactly the reason why I made Layluh[0].
It gets rid of all of the ads on a video and removes most of the UI, so all you're left with is an iframe. Here's your video in Layluh[1].
[0]: https://www.layluh.com/features [1]: https://www.layluh.com/watch?v=F_tkS4dvi8A
This is great. Does it violate Youtube's terms in any way?
This is pretty cool! Feature Request: An option to change the quality of the video.
This is a large part of why I won't pay for the premium service. I don't know how much creators get, but I know they always work their way toward pitiful payouts like Spotify. For an example of this slide, see how microstock has gone from something you could make a living on to ever-shrinking payouts and increasingly opaque bonus structures.
A recent example is Shutterstock's change to the payout and bonus structure.
https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/guv6s3/shutter...
https://xpiksapp.com/blog/2020/new-shutterstock-earnings-bre...
The minimum was 25 cents per image. That could add up fast when an agency buyer with a huge bulk credit plan took notice of your portfolio and bought it out, then returned every time you added more. It's now 10 cents per image.
Spotify got there fast. YouTube will get there if it isn't already.
If there’s one ad I get the most, it’s the God damned YouTube premium ads. I don’t know how many times I have to say no to the prompts. I wish there were a way to say “I will delete the app before I buy this”.
I’m constantly getting “trump approval” campaign ads. Oh the joy of living in Florida.
I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?
Spotify directly removed massive barriers to entry in distributing music. So there are more artists available to you than ever. Listeners might have grown as well, but it seems not in the same scale.
This could also be the case in microstock (and it seems to make logical sense). More and more photos are posted, and more people are posting. So ofcourse as supply grows the price lowers.
>> "I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?"
I made no attribution to bad will. I described a phenomenon without judgment.
The large part of why I would never pay for premium service is that most of the YouTube content consists of unauthorized reproductions of works.
omg yes, I was noticing this over the past week specifically. I keep getting these crap ads multiple times in pretty short video (less than 20 min?)
Reminds me of watching TV when I was a kid :(