Youtube ads- I'm talking the 30sec ones you can't skip

[phucheneh]

The effectiveness of ads is a different argument altogether. Ads are mostly pay-per-impression. As in, the more ads get served, the more money sites make. Click-throughs, purchases, etc don't directly affect the site serving the ads.

Realistically, it's just going to force content providers to change how they serve ads, making them more intrusive, or change their revenue streams altogether - likely in ways that won't benefit the end-user.

I wasn't even thinking about actually clicking ads, TBQH. Especially since someone was talking about Youtube ads, which are more or less 'commercials.'

My point is more that the websites dependent on ad revenue are essentially dependent upon the wastefulness of those advertising.

Take some random-ass product...for some reason, I'm gonna say 'laundry detergent.'

If Tide and Gain and whatever didn't waste money on useless advertisements, they could decrease the cost of their product. I spend less keeping myself not-filthy, and I can give Demonoid or whatever the $1 a year I'm 'stealing' from them.

It all just goes back to the circular stupidity of our entire economic system. Why don't we all just grab some hammers and start making holes in the roads...then the government can offer us gainful employment in the road-fixing industry. Hooray, we get paid money...money that we previously gave the government. And of that money they give us, we have to give some of it back. For fixing the roads.

A lot of things get made in China...but the US does know how to manufacture one thing: worthless jobs. It's kind of mind-boggling to look at the flow of money between the consumer and those providing goods and services (and the government)...it gets confusing enough to make you think 'hey, maybe we NEED all the people involved in the worthless shuffling of money to keep unemployment down'...but it's simply always going to be 'waste.'

 

[rh71]

I would skip it... but I have adblock via Opera and not sure what I have in IE that doesn't load the ads. I dont' recall putting anything in IE.

 

[Markbnj]

Got a example?

Never seen that on legit video sites thankfully.

Daily Mail, which I, ahem, read for the articles, has it on a lot of their videos. Just about all of them, actually. I've seen it a few other places. Hoping it doesn't catch on.

 

[QueBert]

Lol, do you really think that? Okay sport, tell me the last time you watched a 25 minute long video on YouTube, because I sure can't remember when I last did. Most of the videos I watch on YouTube are no more than a minute or two. Slap a 30 second ad in front of every minute-long video and that adds up real quick.

Also, stuff like banner ads don't usually bother me because it's easy enough to look past them. Youtube ads directly interfere with the stuff I'm trying to watch. A lot of TV networks have websites where you can watch full episodes, and the ads don't even bother me because they insert them into natural commercial breaks.

Short videos have ad's you can skip after a few seconds, the last probably dozen videos I watched were all over 25 minutes. On those they tend to have a 1.5 minute ad which I'll gladly sit thru to get to watch a video for FREE. I don't mind 30 second ads for a 2 minute video, because hay I'm making the choice to be on Youtube, so I play by their rules.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Switched to FireFox and installed their ad blockers. Now I get no more ads on YouTube ever.

 

[Newbian]

Switched to FireFox and installed their ad blockers. Now I get no more ads on YouTube ever.

Way to hack the gibson.

 

[pcslookout]

I don't ever see those ads.

Ad Muncher ftw

I don't see Hulu ads either.

 

[BUTCH1]

I didn't know adblocker would work on YT since it's not really a separate ad that pops up it's something that HAS to play before your video starts, someone fill me in if it really works. Lately I've seen a new type where not only do you have to watch an ad the mute button and volume control is nowhere to be found on the player until the ad is finished, ugh..

 

[pcslookout]

I didn't know adblocker would work on YT since it's not really a separate ad that pops up it's something that HAS to play before your video starts, someone fill me in if it really works. Lately I've seen a new type where not only do you have to watch an ad the mute button and volume control is nowhere to be found on the player until the ad is finished, ugh..

I never have that problem.

 

[phucheneh]

I didn't know adblocker would work on YT since it's not really a separate ad that pops up it's something that HAS to play before your video starts, someone fill me in if it really works. Lately I've seen a new type where not only do you have to watch an ad the mute button and volume control is nowhere to be found on the player until the ad is finished, ugh..

I'm using Chrome and Adblock and it works flawlessly for me. Used to get occasional videos that wouldn't load, but even that is fixed now.

I did notice that ads have popped back up on Pandora, though.

 

[pcslookout]

I'm using Chrome and Adblock and it works flawlessly for me. Used to get occasional videos that wouldn't load, but even that is fixed now.

I did notice that ads have popped back up on Pandora, though.

I get no ads on Pandora.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I usually just say fuck it and leave youtube completely. I think the adds start to show up after you've watched a certain amount of videos.

See if the ads were in a very low quality that can load faster, and would load the video while you watch them, they'd have a purpose, but the fact that I have to wait for the ad to load, then wait for it to play, only to wait for the video to load after, forget it.

They really need to fix that. Also I thought the ad revenue went to Google itself, there's a way to profit off the ads on your videos?

 

[pcslookout]

I usually just say fuck it and leave youtube completely. I think the adds start to show up after you've watched a certain amount of videos.

See if the ads were in a very low quality that can load faster, and would load the video while you watch them, they'd have a purpose, but the fact that I have to wait for the ad to load, then wait for it to play, only to wait for the video to load after, forget it.

They really need to fix that. Also I thought the ad revenue went to Google itself, there's a way to profit off the ads on your videos?

Yes I make $200 to $400 a month off my videos.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yes I make $200 to $400 a month off my videos.

Wow that's awesome!

How many hits do you get about? Is this something you have to setup through adsense? Before they botched the interface making it completely unusable under Linux, I recall seeing something about youtube but it would not let me use it. It was not very clear on what it was so never really looked too deeply.

I don't really get much hits, but knowing that it's possible to make money, I'll definitely look at making videos that can actually get some hits. Most of my stuff is just really random.

 

[onza]

Yes I make $200 to $400 a month off my videos.

I'm in the 20-60 range per month. Need better content!

 

[BUTCH1]

I'm in the 20-60 range per month. Need better content!

What I've noticed is it's the title, like one was "roller coaster horror show!", it was just some dude's GF screaming during the ride, had like 1.5 mil hits, I always wonder if lame shit like that pays out..

 

[onza]

Next video will be "GF in lulumon yoga pants sheer test."

 

[TwiceOver]

Could be worse. Sites like "The Verge" that have the EXACT SAME 30-second commercial before EVERY video. To me this says "We could only get one person to sponsor our content, sorry."

 

[BUTCH1]

Could be worse. Sites like "The Verge" that have the EXACT SAME 30-second commercial before EVERY video. To me this says "We could only get one person to sponsor our content, sorry."

Ditto ESPN, one ad, one vid, every time..

 

[halik]

how many videos have you gone to watch recently (past 6 months?) and just say "FUCK IT" because of the stupid ad attatched?

if it has that "Skip this ad" after 5 seconds, it MIGHT have a chance... but even those get X'd out by me a lot.

even more annoying, is trying to watch a commercial on youtube, but you have to watch a commercial first.

i know, there are ad blockers, but im not always on my personal computer. it just seems like these ads are getting way out of hand... some sites have 60 second ads you cant skip!

it feels like im watching a LOT less video these days and more and more finding myself reading the articles instead...

I just hit the back button every time this happens; they can keep their stupid TV nonsense along with their content.

 

[Newbian]

I didn't know adblocker would work on YT since it's not really a separate ad that pops up it's something that HAS to play before your video starts, someone fill me in if it really works. Lately I've seen a new type where not only do you have to watch an ad the mute button and volume control is nowhere to be found on the player until the ad is finished, ugh..

Make sure your filters are updated as I have yet to see any of these.

 

[QueBert]

YT should let people block ads and just limit their quality to 240p. If they don't want to help YT make a few pennies here and there they should have no problem with watching the lowest quality stream.

 

[Newbian]

YT should let people block ads and just limit their quality to 240p. If they don't want to help YT make a few pennies here and there they should have no problem with watching the lowest quality stream.

We help them by providing hits to the website and signing up so google can get all our information to sell. :biggrin:

Their own fault for the blocking of crappy video ad's.

 

[lxskllr]

YT should let people block ads and just limit their quality to 240p. If they don't want to help YT make a few pennies here and there they should have no problem with watching the lowest quality stream.

I'd love to force low res streams for everything. Shit, I might be willing to view a static ad for that feature :^D

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[dabuddha]

I turn off adblocker on youtube as well as other sites I frequent so they can make some $. Stop being a leech.

I'm sure you do. Why even keep adblocker then?