Also: “and this is who is sponsoring me to show my shit on YouTube”
My fave is when there’s an ad break during an ad.
not defending youtube or ads in general, but technically the ad companies don’t pay unless the ad is viewed/served, or only pay depending on how much of the ad is viewed. they aren’t double dipping like this is implying.
youtube is only getting paid if an ad is shown, and depending on the duration of the ad only for the duration of the ad that is shown to the end user. for like s skippable ad, for the first 30 seconds you can’t skip they get paid for that 30 seconds, but if ithe ad is longer say a minute, but the skip button appears after 30 and you press the skip button youtube only gets paid for the 30seconds the ad was displayed. if you don’t skip then they get paid for the amount of time the ad was shown.
if you pay for youtube premium, then they don’t show ads, they don’t get paid for ads not shown. but that’s why you are giving them money. to compensate for the “lost revenue” they aren’t getting from ads.
and for things like adblockers, the ads are not served therefore don’t qualify for being billed and youtube doesn’t get paid. and youtube pays channels based on performance of ads being displayed, and that’s why a lot of channels have both ad spots and sponsor segments. that and youtube doesn’t pay real good for ad revenue unless you are a huge channel.
and then sponsor block skips sponsor sections for you and some sponsors/channels don’t care the contract was do a sponsor segment and those contracts are outside of youtube itself so youtube doesn’t get paid for them, that’s why there isn’t a sponsor skip action when you pay for premium. but i fear sponsors will corrupt and start doing contracts where they track how many times a segment was viewed and pay out based on that metric too.
During an ad break you need another ad break.
Ray(ad break)cons
Now that is some Quality content so worth the money.
I mean
How do you expect Youtube to make money
Ray(insert another ad here)cons.
No tf we don’t. YouTube ReVanced, YouTube Morphe, uBlock Origin
And sponsorblock.
For some reason either morphe and revanced are stuttering for me recently
Force close the app and clear the cache, that fixes it for me.
Same for me, revanced takes what feels like an entire minute or more before starting playback. And quality settings are not available. Is there a revanced community here on Lemmy?
Smart tube on my older Sony android tv
Nope. My adblocker is free.
Paying YouTube? Ads?
I have a few friends that proudly say they pay for premium…
I love them, but I do think less of them when they say this.
Yup, they actually get people to do that. Not me either but here we are.
We pay YouTube not to shows ads, then youtubers imbed ads in videos. So we pay to watch ads.
Every day brings us closer to AD BS.
I watched MST3K recently (a show that clearly denotes when classic network commercials would come on)
They mentioned commercials AFTER YouTube had already shown a 1 minute ad break.
We are late for a competitor.
Google:
Not to be that guy, but it’s actually Companies pay the running cost of YouTube (plus a little bit of pocket money for the creators whose videos you watch) so you can watch free of charge, in exchange for this they get to show you a video. I don’t like Google either and rob them of their income by using an adblocker. Though if nobody pays and nobody watches ads they might find even worse ways to pay the bills.
What like… Charge influencers to upload their shit videos? Oh sweet baby Jesus, that would be amazing!
What rule of acquisition is that?
Capitalism 101: cause a problem. Get paid for the solution.
Also ignore any collateral or conscience.
