I promise, and I can prove it
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Does UA-cam feel different lately? Are you getting slammed with ads on the content you watch? Maybe even this video? Are you irritated by ads and maybe even frustrated with UA-cam’s monetization system?
Well, you are not alone, and I have the answer and explanation to all of these concerns and questions. I'm dead serious. There's an explainable answer to all these issues, so let's get started.
Here are the chapters for this video. Feel free to jump around accordingly:
0:00 Introduction
1:05 Ad Issue 1
1:48 Ad Issue 2
2:03 The Major Issue With UA-cam Ads (The Facts)
4:22 How Creators Fit Into This
5:38 Creator Example
6:50 How This Is Harming Small Creators
8:14 What UA-cam Needs To Do
Note:
I deliberately leave the channel icons and video titles on each video for reference in case anyone wants to see the full videos featured in these documentaries. If anything is unclear, or for additional references, please reach out, and I will happily provide a link to any of the following content discussed, featured, or used as a b-roll in the video.
Copyright Note:
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Music:
In this video, in particular, I was in a RuneScape vibe, so I used some of Ian Taylor's incredible music. Please check out his music on Spotify if you are into that style. I cannot emphasize enough how good the music is.
Music:
All songs featured in the video are from:
- Epidemic Sound: share.epidemicsound.com/8mvwnm
- UA-cam's copyright free music library.
- Or some of Ian Taylor's incredible music. Please check out his music on Spotify if you are into that style. I cannot emphasize enough how good the music is.
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Creators note:
Hello, my name is Zackary Smigel. I've been creating UA-cam videos since I was a kid. I started UA-cam full-time about five years ago. You might have seen me from Real Estate License Wizard, where I obtained 60,000 subscribers and over 5 million channel views. I have since left that channel for creative pursuits, and this is my first crack at starting something new. I'd appreciate a like and subscribe if this content interests you and I captured your attention for even just a few moments.
On a secondary note, this video is a follow-up to my last, although it can stand on its own. This is my 11th video essay using this style and format. Last week, I was happy to have 1,000 subscribers. Now, I have over 50,000. This is still unbelievable to me. I am so grateful for the support. Technical-wise, I figured out the sound effect issue, which is great. I'm happy with how this one came out. I hope all enjoy!
Thanks so much for watching,
Zackary Smigel
#youtube #videoessay #zackarysmigel
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For the sake of science and the fact I don't have a sponsor on this video. I'm going to put one midroll on this video JUST ONE for the whole video. And please let me know in the comments if you got an ad or not. I'm generally curious what percentage of you do. If I had to guess, I'd say 70% but again. I don't have that data and no one except UA-cam does.
I got an ad for Google at the start off the video.
I saw no ad.
Ublock origin works pretty wel for me
ad in the beginning
Turned off the ad blocker to see how this would work, and didn't get an add. Perhaps it's because the cookie remembered to play the cached video without any ads pre-placed, but... It's just my guess
I think it's ridiculous that UA-cam lets scam and raunchy ads onto their platform but gets mad at a creator over the strangest things.
Sorry, but youtube sucks. Nothing but censorship, shadow banning, ads, and now they are deleting inactive channels starting in December. I have a lot of playlists full of important videos whose creators are done. They made the videos, did their job, and now they are done. I have to go and hunt down their content. My own videos won't live on after I've perished either, now on his God Forsaken platform. It only ever gets worse, never better.
I had an ad about an automatic banana cleaner... well atleast the caption said it was one.
The ads give them money, random UA-camrs do not.
have you seen the "magic sex gun" add? i did. look it up.@@thetwistedone05
I had 10 ads watching this...
I love how UA-cam puts their "warning context" labels on videos they deem misinformation, then shows you an ad for a "miracle cream that can regrow teeth"
Or "get 1000% return in just a week" investment scam ads
@@sihamhamda47or "mr beast giveaway" just give us your email password, ID, and bank card :) no scam ofc
I remember geting add for "datting app" that had clip of girl geting screwed (all "naughty parts" were of screen) on a minecraft video once.
They really put anything for add
Ben, as we know, Google is the pinnacle of opinionated prostitute. If you pay them, they'll do anything you want. If you do not pay them, they just get self righteous.
@@komiks42😂😂
I hate the fact that if you miss the skip ads button you have to suffer through the second ad until you can skip that one
What kind of scheme shit is that right?
And when you don't miss it, you have a chance to get unskippable ads. Even for videos less than a minute long. Once got a 5 second ad for a 10 second video. I wish YT implemented a 1 minute minimum to video uploads cuz I keep getting shitposts recommended to me if I click even one for fun which they slap feckin ads to for some reason.
I used to clicked on the ! sign near the countdown and "report" the add to skip it (not doing anything for the ads tho, they still give me the same frikken ads)
When i updated my UA-cam version i can't even do it anymore, you can still report it, but it doesn't skip the ads :""D
I hate when you are nice enough to watch through the entire ad but then they give you a still picture with a timer
On my laptop if when an ad starts I just keep reloading the video using the chrome reload icon until there is no ad and it puts the viewing figures too if the ads still keep appearing I just move on to another video.
It is extremely frustrating how UA-camrs get demonitized for the smallest infraction (even if it's nothing really) while advertisers can upload scams, cult recruitment ads, etc.
"Eek, you said the fuck word! Demonitized!"
*the ad they put on next is for custom resin dildos. Yes that's a real ad I've gotten.*
And porno bots act in total peace, with no response from UA-cam.
and they never did fixed the spam bot problem in the commets of some popular youtuber's videos like penguinz0 there are still don't read my name bots and my farts smell better then blank's bot...
@@chrisanderson7906😊
:D Thank you. I really hate all these scam, sprots betting ads being thrown at me. Like OMFG. WTF. I dont mind ads. I really mind terrible low tier low morality ads.
If you don't post for 6 months, 100% of your ad revenue starts going to UA-cam. You should make a video on that too. This terribly effects people who become ill, disabled, or even pass away hoping to leave the revenue generated by their library of content to their families.
I never realized that. Wow.
What.
That is absolutely appalling... if not outright illegal? The uploader retains copyright, yes?
So they actually follow that rule? That sucks
Ok wow wtf. In that case my prediction for the future of UA-cam is that creators that haven't posted in months will upload what amounts to a filler video of no true substance just to maintain revenue. Thus, by no true fault of their own, UA-cam will just end up almost completely devoid of actual content. Becoming really, just a shitvideopost site
Damn, and here I thought one of the benefits of being a youtuber is having flexibility.
not only that, increasing the number of ads actually hurts the creators because more people are downloading adblocks.
To me, it hurts creators because theres less watch time for the actual content and ads become so annoying that people give up halfway through the video
@@TheAnxiousOwlI'll attest to this. After I've hit 2 min waiting several times in a row I drop out an leave the platform. They have a very limited window to fix this before I and many like me just drop it completely
@@BruceOMalley I feel this. Currently using an adblock, but with adblocks constantly under fire-if they ever remove functionality for adblockers entirely, I'm out. I have better things to use my time on and honestly, I've never once in my life clicked on an ad or spent money on an advertised product on youtube in my entire life. Especially now since most are scams or blatant malware. Its kind of disgusting.
I do feel bad for creators, I do, but I can't support this behavior at all from youtube.
@@BT-ex7ko I'm in the same boat. Honestly, if they restrict adblockers, it will probably be good for me in the long run to be forced off this website.
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If I see another Hello Fresh ad, I'll sign up with a competitor out of spite.
Having said that, advertisers need to be made aware of this problem. They could potentially be losing customers.
everyone is loosing because i don’t even buy from a competitor. YT ads are the best way to avoid companies, influencers, wise guys, etc.
I actively avoid brands that advertise to me relentlessly or in an intrusive way, and I slander them if anyone brings them up in conversation. Unless I sought out the product/service, they can get bent.
It feels like I’m watching more ads than I am watching the actual creator. I tend to watch video essays on my favorite Tv shows. Every ten minutes I’m watching double ad features, and this has been increasing for a while.
dont get me started on a midroll every 90 beginning seconds of a video
If UA-cam continues adding more ads, people will naturally leave, and then UA-cam will be like: What have we done wrong?
I refuse to pay UA-cam to fix an ad problem that they created
this makes snek happy
The only reason I have Premium is that I am a minor and my dad pays for it
i refuse to pay youtube for doing nothing but host the videos. the users make the content youtube only helps if they're already popular. if youtube has a problem with income (they do not) maybe they could reign in the 4k video's and people livestreaming shower thoughts from potato's. maybe take the 6 year old "breaking news" videos off of the algorithm. at least netflix/disney/amazon etc make content. youtube is just a video search engine hosted by the most famous search engine.
if alphabet keeps this up your google searches will be delayed by two video ads before you can see the results
very well put, i agree
I find it super predatory that they take ad revenue from creators that aren't getting paid. If they aint getting paid neither should UA-cam.
You guys are insane, servers cost money
People are free to just not upload..
Don't insult by comparing it to slavery
so you're on youtubes side with the whole ad thing?@@RamkrishanYT
@@RamkrishanYT I don’t think you understand the point my guy either out of willful ignorance or malicious brown nosing. If YT/GOOG came out from the start and said ads on non monetized content would pay for servers, then no one would have an issue. The point is that YT became popular in the first place because the whole schema was ads would go on monetized content only under the pretense that creators get paid. Changing company policy years after the fact and without a formal announcement of any sort may be legal and well within their rights but its not ethical nor should creators take it sitting down. This hurts small creators with non monetized content the most. Stop brown nosing for multi billion dollar corpos when will you bozos learn
I feel that this is one possibility that UA-cam does apply brakes to beginner channels. Logically it does not make sense that I got to 500 subscribers fairly easy and quickly in 5 months with bad quality videos as I had no idea what I was doing. Now, after the 500 mark I get 1 subscriber a week if I am lucky. This makes no logic sense to me. My subscriber speed should have picked up. But slowing me down means a lot longer period for UA-cam to take 100% of the ad revenue off of my content.
Also keep in mind with our complete broken down postal system in South Africa I can wait up to 6 months before I get the code UA-cam sends to your physical postal address plus then there is the chance that it can get lost in the post completely.
@@SonetLandman Making videos is making art, and if someone is going to profit off of that art by doing nothing except share it with the class, the least they could do is give some of the money back to the person who made it. If they can't do that, then don't profit off of it.
A 45% increase on pre rolls is an understatement in my experience. The yt app on my tv set will always throw me a pair of them over and over until I've backed out of the video enough to where they stop. Often, I'll get a pair of pre rolls that end and immediately get a second pair. Rewinding or fast forwarding gets a pair. Pausing the video for a few minutes gets a pair. The literal end of the video after the timer is up gets a pair before autoplay can begin counting down. Of course the next video gets a pair too. And this is all ignoring the sheer density of ads. every 4 minutes or so for me, and I tend to prefer having long videos on in the background. It's just too much work to babysit the mute button to not get blasted with the same dumb BK jingles, square space, invisiline and whey noise every four minutes.
I'm having the same exact experience. I get so many ads to the point it's unwatchable on TV, yet the same video on the phone app will have a fraction of those ads.
I just use adblock on my computer. Unfortunately not on my phone however.
I will continue to use adblock until such time as google's CEOs get it through their thick skulls that we're NOT going to put up with incessant advertising on the platform and we're not going to pay Google money for the privilege of watching ad free content.
@@michaezell4607UA-cam vanced 💀
Don't support UA-cam💀
Ik this isn’t the newest comment but when using YT on the TV recently, my dad noticed that when you pause a video and leave it paused long enough, it starts showing and ad plus a QR code for it, it’s really wild!! It’s weird how much this site wants to suffocate us with advertisements
Every time I get an ad, it comes with an additional one. One is always skippable after 5 seconds if the combined runtime of the two ads exceeds 20 seconds. It’s always at the very start of the video, and at least 2 more pairs of ads will play before the video is over. It’s like this for every single video I watch. UA-cams plan is to bombard us with so much shit that we are forced to suffer or buy their ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription to remove the ads.
The most surprising part of this video was learning that nearly 10% of users have premium, that's honestly an order of magnitude more than I expected.
Premium is not for everyone but it's decent value in my opinion if UA-cam is your main media entertainment source, as you get UA-cam Music with Premium too so you don't need to pay for Spotify/Apple Music
Honestly youtube premium isn't bad, I had it for free for 3 months (thanks genshin impact) and it was nice
I'd go back to it if I was able to budget better
I run adblocks on my pc, and I just deal with it on my phone. Not like I ever buy anything from the invasive ads anyways. And I’d rather not give UA-cam my money.
Not, _that_ surprising, UA-cam nowadays is unwatchable with ads. So your options are 1. use an ad blocker, 2. pay for premium, or 3. just leave the platform, and watch something else. Also it's just US data, where people love to pay for anything.
It's cheap, allows a smoother experience all around, and it's a far better service than Netflix etc (you can always count on it for entertainment, unlike Netflix's catalogue)
UA-cam did Armchair Historian dirty by demonetizing his educational, unbiased history videos claiming they weren’t ad friendly, then still rolls ads on them. It’s borderline criminal.
They do that with everyone. Not one exception.
They tell you, your videos arent suitable for ads - and put the very same amount of ads on this video.
Just so they can pocket 100% instead of having to give out a few cents per 1000 views.
@@gandalf_thegreyKinda wonder about that. UA-cam tends to play favorites, especially to their cash cow cash creators. Lower million channels just get left in the dust while the behemoths get their own YT rep who vouches for issues they bring up internally, as per what I've seen from Mark and Jack's channels during periods they'd get unlawfully stricken by the bot.
calling armchair historian educational and unbiased is a stretch if i've ever seen one, but i don't think he makes anything that is demonetizable at least.
@gandalf_thegrey creators gets 55% not just a few cents for 1k views
One thing I'd like to add to the quality of ads. Recently I've gotten thousands of erotically implied ads whether it be for a dating site to "meet older women" or some furry asmr mobile game. The problem I have with these kinds of ads is 1. that they are scams just like the other ads and 2. UA-cam is still largely a kids' platform. Are these sexually hinting ads being served to 10-year-old kids? If I had a kid, I wouldn't want them to see a full cleavage on a scam dating site ad on UA-cam.
Even though the economical state of the world is not optimal at the moment, we have to hold UA-cam responsible for these things.
I would much rather pay $13/mo to get all channels ad free, then pay $5 a month for a single channel. I'm subbed about 400 channels and much of my viewing comes from channels that I am not subscribed to.
Premium views also contribute to a larger percentage of my revenue than the percentage of my viewership. So as a creator I make more from people who are subscribed to premium, per capita.
I would rather pay for a vpn, connect to à server in a country where I won't have ad, for the same price as UA-cam prenium, and usable for as many account as I want. But I'm not a youtuber. I've a normal job.
So I do what's better for me. Also, there's many shady, borderline fraudulent advertisements on UA-cam, but they de demonetise people because they don't like certain opinions or facts. It's very shady. So I don't feel guilty to use the means I need to get around the system. Most youtuber have parteon anyway, so at least the money goes directly to them when I choose to pay.
You are dumb.
The worst kind of ads are those on the app where the video will take over 75% of the screen and the other 25% is an ad banner wanting you to click on their link to buy their stuff. It is so jarring and frustrating when you are in the middle of the video and decide to go scrolling through the comments but immediately get interupted and can't look at anything until this unskippable ad finishes all the way through. It completely removes you from the video, comments, and the experience
Any advertisement during the video is going to take away from the experience. Besides maybe in rare cases the creator places a point for an ad-roll, I would only understand a short ad at the beginning for longer videos.
While watching DJ mix-sets, we used to be able to at least watch the whole video (about an hour or slightly over) with only an add at the beginning and at the end, but a few years ago the ad frequency and length both increased drastically. Now there is an ad about every 10 minutes, which basically defeats the whole point of watching the set. We've had to resort to adblockers on our pc and having to download the whole thing on USB and play it from there on our smart-tv.
Imagine how bad this is for short form content. Having a 5 minute video with two 14-second ads in front of it, I've seen that already a few years ago. Its just not worth your time anymore, so I cannot understand people put up with it and google trying to force it.
@pinobluevogel6458
True, any ad is a take away but these are especially bad since you can't even look at the original video description or comments
It makes me not even want to watch short content. Why bother watching a 5 minute video if I get 2 or 3 ad rolls. It gets so bad sometimes with the ads and repetitive content that sometimes I just turn off UA-cam and find something else entertaining. It's like the old feeling of watching TV, nothing is really on and you keep seeing ads for stuff you don't want. Eventually you just turn it off and find something else
@@Chaso-1124 Understandable. Without ad-blocking, I wouldn't have been as invested in youtube at all. Just sticking to less horrible platforms, or simply resorting back to offline entertainment would probably not be too bad either.
I just close the video, go to history if I have to and open and close the video til the ads stop. Hopefully that prevents them from getting the money
Yea, I really hate that too. The comment section gets reset to the top and you don’t know how far you’d read.
I'm kind of angry recently because we got a horror ad, while watching a strawberry shortcake video mind you, it started FROM THE BEGGINING with a jump scare at 2:00pm so no time to navigate away and scared the snot out of myself and traumatized my 2 year old. Bloody gory and very scary. But my favourite UA-camr Girl with the dogs gets her video taken down because a cat scratched her and she bled ever so slightly. Double standard much? Now my kid isn't gonna sleep for a month. Sometimes I think they do it on purpose because they are secretly hoping parents will feel forced to buy premium!
it's hilarious they block adblockers, then give me an advertisement for a scam adblocker
I know, i keep getting advertised for "privacy add blocker". Wile the add blocker being hypocritical for blocking adds wile advertising their product.
UA-cam should be held responsible for what is shown in their ads.
There is really no excuse for them not to monitor what they themselves are advertising on their platform- they collect money from the advertisers to show their stuff after all.
It can not be that there are blatant scams being advertised or that there is literal pornography being shown on UA-cam Kids like we had a few years ago.
Yes and while I'll get some ads from legit companies like weibo or whatever I don't want to use weapon and then when I block the ad I get the ad except instead of from the weibo company it's from some other company based out of Hong Kong and a lot of spam companies are coming from Hong Kong for some reason or maybe it's a company that works with advertisement.
I once got a semi-threat from a scam add for gas masks
sit at the home screen and watch the counter on it skyrocket, I am up to 20 already on this video alone, was close to 300 before I clicked this video
The was never any "literal pornography" on YT Kids.
Elsagate and Pronography are two entirely different things.
I try to say that i dont want period product ads like 5 times but it didnt stop so i gave up
As a former premium subscriber, I found a other issue is youtube aggressively demonetizing many of my favorite creators over content like video game violence, or erroneously calling them a clip repost channel...
This is actually why I stopped doing premium looks like I need a good ad block
It’s so UA-cam can keep the ad revenue to themselves
Remember when you just paid UA-cam like five bucks and then I would show your video like 200,000 people, and it was up to them to click it or not.
Now you're paying them that money monthly and you're not getting anything for it's crazy, no room for growth.
It really makes youtube a one class platform
@@numizumi5131CleanTube. It's an app that is an ad-free version of UA-cam.
A friend of mine gets his videos demonetized all the time, there isnt an explanation and the video itself isnt sexual related, its a child toy related, no bad language, no weird images, no copyright music. Nothing, then he appeals and youtube always reinstates the monetization, but well after the first wave of views, which is what makes the most profit
The day I downloaded an ad blocker was a day when my two young children and my wife was in the living room with me and I loaded a UA-cam video that jumped to an adult porn ad. I was shocked and my wife was angry accusing me of doing that. I said never again.
Are you sure you used a legit Adblocker to actually remove the ads?
@@mohammadn5591 What a stupid question.
What blocker do you use
I hate ads before videos so much that I will repeatedly close and open the video until the ads disappear
Really miss the days when you could create a music playlist and just listen to it uninterrupted. Same playlist now has innumerable ads between songs, some 5x longer than the videos they're playing on
EXACTLY! I FIND IT SO ANNOYINGGGGGGGG
Like can I PLEASE listen to ONE song without having to sit through THREE unskippable ads to hear it???
Omfg not to mention ads in the middle of longer songs 😒
if you have ios theres an app called musi thats youtube based and only has visual ads that dont really disrupt anything :)
The ads in the middle of long songs kills the vibe so hard.
Or when you put on a video of rain sounds to fall asleep, cause apparently you need ads in your dreams.
The only way to fight UA-cam’s horrible ad system is to not pay for the overpriced premium and just block the ads
Or use a free adblocker
@@CatNap11888man, ad blockers are super sketchy sometimes.
Yup
@@dimesonhiseyes9134 If you cannot be arsed to research the legit ones you deserver everything coming your way.
Same here - adblock installed. UA-cam has problem with what?😎
Ever since UA-cam started blocking adblockers I've been getting ads about desperate moms in my area on my main page 💀💀💀 like imagine if a child saw that.
for me i get "gacha heat" ads.
*S E R I O U S L Y.*
The ADs suck, and I see the same, crappy and unrelated ADs so many times, it makes me hate companies that I didn't know existed until I saw their youtube ADs. On longer videos, we'll get three ads in the first five minutes.
The first time I heard that UA-cam will run ads on non-monetized videos, I was disgusted. I still am. I get why they do it, but it's still disgusting. I flat refuse to ever disable my adblocker. If I want to support someone, I will do it directly.
That happened to my channel and I am furious. Sound cloud is no better. I don't know where to take my music. I want a better platform.
@Specious-Official Patreon? You'd still use UA-cam and probably upload differently but I'd consider it.
Thank you so much. I never thought about it. I don't like asking for money for my music but if someone's already taking from my pocket I suppose I should really consider it. @@o_o8203
Unfortunately, Google plans on blocking ad blockers
@@doomawsogamingthey have been trying for a long time.
What I find infuriating is if I don't want to show ads and so turn off monetization UA-cam starts showing ads anyway without paying me. So I have to enable monetization and set it to the bare minimum ads. This of course doesn't remove them entirely only reduces them.
Seems accurate, as I don't see many ads on your vids, I just thought you were getting the short end of the stick, but apparently it was purposeful.
Well you’re uploading on their site. You are using their hosting service which costs them resources to run and maintain. If you don’t want to pay someone else to host your videos, then make your own hosting service.
@@GhostKing6790you mean the fraction of a fraction of a cent the video costs to host?
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Oh hi Cody!
I was mindblown when you said "let me explain" at 5:58 and UA-cam immediately played me an ad and I genuinely thought you had somehow managed to time that perfectly.
Finally, it makes sense why they keep advertising small UA-camrs now. It's literally free money if they blow up.
You're right, get them views, make money while the smaller channel can't get monetized, and once they're big enough to be monetized but not large enough to be self sufficient on UA-cam you stop pushing their content.
A large majority, and I mean an overwhelming majority of UA-cam users barely have any subs. And number of subs doesn't necessarily correlate with video quality, sometimes I find smaller channels with great content, that go a long while without "blowing up"
Its a bit sad, but I guess that may be the price to pay for any average joe to be able to upload a video. I just wish that no matter how small you are, you'd get a cut of a revenue, cuz that would incentive some smaller youtubers to get more serious about it than just treat it as a hobby.
Yea, on my old channel i got a 20 second ad on my own video and i didn't earn any money from it as my channel wasn't monetized. I had 200 subs at the time
Edit: i forgot to mention the video was only 12 seconds
Sorry creators. Ads are repulsive. I was using ad blocker back when I only had to watch 1 skippable ad, now that I have to watch multiple I'm definitely not turning off my ad blocker.
snek approved
Underrated comment.
Whoever watches ads is stupid, because its a waste of time.
Agreed. I've been running an ad blocker since the late 2000s. I'm not giving corporations more access to me to use psychological and sociological manipulation tactics that they've sunk billions of dollars into research to perfect to brainwash me more than they have already. It's just like... stay the fuck outta my head.
I only watch UA-cam if I'm using an adblocker now because UA-cam kept giving me the same, unskippable ad for some star wars branded soap or something every single time I clicked on a video.
It didn't matter what the video was it showed the same thing. I miss the days when ads were just a small banner on the bottom of the screen you click to close.
Advertisers: We do not want our ads appearing on videos that are offensive.
UA-cam: Okay. We'll suppress the creators.
Creators: We don't want our videos to have these offensive scam ads.
UA-cam: STFU. We own you.
Start reporting all ads as spam and then in the comment section, just put the phrase “no more ads” if we start speaking up then eventually a change has to be made. If not then we’ll just have to kill the platform
I am a business owner, and I would NEVER waste a cent on advertising on UA-cam. If I myself actively AVOID brands which annoy me through YT ads, I cannot be the only one who generates a distaste for the brands that annoy me during my leisure time.
i’ve been getting the same ad over and over for months and i will never buy from their service because their ads are so damn annoying
Me too, and also this whole issue of getting targeted ads - After you buy a product, like furniture, that you may never buy again!
Why would any advertiser use YT? Im not in 99% of their demographic.
Then there are the scam products, scam "make money online", tmi hygiene products, and throughout lockdown l got funeral plan ads multiple times a day for over a year, and yes, now l keep a mental of note of ...
Avoid these companies, they despise their customers.
What's your business called?
Also W business owner
@@monkeymonkeyman88 not on this platform dude
Also, youtube pushing so many ads is pushing viewers off the platform. Creators get more stressed at how their pay per ad has been halved, youtube is stressed because they can’t charge as much, advertisers are stressed because they know that no one wants to engage with their annoying interruptions. Everyone loses. It’s a terrible system.
Everyone loses except N😊ebula creators
Never ever ever engage with an add on any platform.
Adblock guys.
Adblock.
The ads are fine. Someone has to pay for the content. What really pisses me off is the various classical music channels where an ad is inserted in the middle of a movement. This defines bone headed anti consumer. The other thing is that all gun channels should be permitted to make the content their audience wants. Just put a suitable notice on the banner he'd so people will only be offended they go looking for content they don't like. I've learned a lot from well informed adult commentary from gun owners to gun owners who want to be safe and improve and learn more about guns. And the history of guns. - I'm not in your demographic but UA-cam sent it to me anyway. Glad they did.
Yes. It Does have an Ad Problem. Multiple in fact.
This guy is a UA-cam wizard we’ve all been waiting for. His content is top tier and super enjoyable
Thanks mom 😉
Agreed! 😅
@@PomchiPie Indubitably 🧐🎩🥂🍾
Sorry, but youtube sucks. Nothing but censorship, shadow banning, ads, and now they are deleting inactive channels starting in December. I have a lot of playlists full of important videos whose creators are done. They made the videos, did their job, and now they are done. I have to go and hunt down their content. My own videos won't live on after I've perished either, now on his God Forsaken platform. It only ever gets worse, never better.
I started paying for YT Premium a couple years ago, when I mostly used YT for asmr content…because there’s nothing quite like FINALLY feeling like you’re falling asleep, then having your ears violently assaulted by a DoorDash ad.
Or turning the volume up to blast some awesome music and getting blasted by a doordash ad
good goy. pay for premium and take it!
You know a UA-camr vid about ads is crap when they can't even mention there are ways to not see any. AD BLOCKING extensions!! Block ads and support creators directly with memberships, donations etc.
@@toolbaggersyeah that's the thing, UA-cam is literally trying to like block users of ad extensions from even watching videos. So as if they aren't greedy enough they will try everything in your power to make you watch those ads lol
i love how youtube puts tons of ads on non-monetized content, not to mention that the ads have no relation to what you watch whatsoever even though they are "customized just for you"
UA-cam has the most irrelevant ads, its honestly worse than TV ads. (even though I haven't seen those in over 15 years, so it might be worse now)
Facts. I have yet to see an ad for something I'd ever buy.
I keep getting Spanish ads even though don't know Spanish
@@madlad635 Por favor, vamos a la playa. Dineros .. cervecas!
No seriously, this is rather weird, might have to do something with your location being wrong.
@@madlad635 personalised ads gone wrong
there are times when I watch a 2 to 3 minute music video and have like 5 minutes of ads on top of them being gambling, scams, politics for the wrong area, oh and porn all the things I use ADblock to avoid
We need this dude to be YT CEO right now
I don’t think investors will be very happy maybe
As a UA-cam Premium user in Washington, it was $17.99 and they bumped it up to $22.99, and if I hadn't checked my spam folder I wouldn't have known that they increased the price. There definitely should've been a warning in the UA-cam app about this, but I didn't get one. Also I feel it's scummy that creators who aren't in the program get ads but no money from it, I think the piggy bank idea could work tho.
Edit: I live in the USA in the NW.
So please state your currency in the case that I'm getting triggered by wildly different pricing but it's only because of the world's many different forms of money
Edit part 2: also I'm doing the family plan, but I've seen in this very comment chain or section or whatever that it's somehow cheaper. I have yet to see in USD it be as expensive or more expensive then the price I'm forced to pay, and idk how or why.
Edit 3: is everyone saying that they get it cheaper getting a discount because of being a student or something? Just double checking
I pay $20 Australian a month.
I pay less than 2usd for a 6 person account
Really is that expensive there?
@@alfonsoserramartinez1344 yep everything is Netflix is over $20 a month now too
@@JR-gh8lp and then bumped up to $22.99. I'm on the Autism Spectrum, and if I were to get ads anymore I'd actually really not be able to handle it. Also the original reason I got it was because I was doing a no wheat and no sugar diet, and for some reason youtube kept giving me Reese's ads.
The only good deal for UA-cam Premium account is the student one: 6.99pm,
If the ad system were to be implemented as you proposed, I would disable my adblock to support the creators I like.
When I play a music playlist an ad pops up in the middle of the song. It doesn't stop. Another Ad pops up if I don't skip
I have these exact issues. The same 4 ads of scammers (pretending to be "finance coaches"). I can´t see their faces anymore and if I ever meet them in public I will 🤮
One more thing that I found out about that is completely ridiculous was a content creator who was really against putting midrolls in their videos, and youtube automatically added them to his older videos. He had to spend *days* manually removing all of them
Putting ads on videos without the permission of the creator was actually the thing that made me stop making UA-cam videos. The only solution to these issues is for the big UA-camrs to start organising and forming content creator unions. UA-cam won't listen to you unless you can get organised. UA-cam is like any other business or institution in our society; if you're not costing them money, they don't care. It's up to you, though. I no longer have any skin in that game (live like you're free already).
Isn't that what 'Standard' did a bit with Nebula?
Il gonna send this to yt
Unfortunately people don’t have the balls to try such a think. It’s like a revolution. Too many are benefiting but once the bottom class becomes larger that’s when people finally wake tf up
" if you're not costing them money, they don't care"
You mean the TB of data that get's uploaded to UA-cam every hour for free? in that sense you're wrong on all levels.
Creators and Consumers cost UA-cam a ton of money every single second of watch time, that's why Google is trying to limit the money burning party that is UA-cam.
I get that ads suck, but honestly I'm amazed that UA-cam has survived this long, the product that they deliver free unlimited upload at 1080p, 2160, 4k@60fps no matter how big or small you are.. Unlimited "download" speeds (with a 1Gbps line I get basically 600-700Mbps down from UA-cam even when I'm not logged in) That's insane, the cost is that the consumers have to watch ads ever half second...
Other then the ad problem that I solve by just using adblockers, UA-cam is an insanely good product that is doing everything it can to give the "users" the best experience compared to the shit show of "free but limited" options out there, the tools that they give ANYBODY for free is why we have practically 0 competing product out there.
"odysee, vevo, daylymotion"... nah brah consumers are all at UA-cam, and frankly they don't even force the consumer to "upgrade or make a free acount" to enjoy UA-cam.
We are all out here complaining that UA-cam should be free? more expensive to Google? what exactly are we complaining about "They put ads on a free product? that I can enjoy without any other limitations"?
Basically we sound like spoiled brats... I mean You guys sound like spoiled brats because every time I mention that I just use adblock people try to bitch about "huurr durrr your leeching of others". but "I just want one add no two because I don't really like ads... I don't care how expensive your servers are I just want one add" that sounds even worst to me.
@@svampebob007 I feel like people like you give these companies leeway to do some shady ass business practices. ALL the costs you mentioned are a fraction of a fraction of what UA-cam is gaining off of ads and creators. Actually do research for the numbers before making such a statement, no one said UA-cam isn’t a good platform. But it’s mainly bc it’s so established and has a monopoly on the video industry ASLO bc of creators! only close contender is Spotify
40 seconds of unskipable ad is normal for me now at least on TV
I haven't seen an ad on youtube in 8 years and I intend to continue this streak
I’ve got another wrinkle for you: if creators allow UA-cam to auto-place the mid-rolls (and there are surprisingly large channels that appear to not realize you don’t have to allow that) they can be placed more frequently than every 2 minutes. And I’ve found evidence on my own work that UA-cam has added additional mid-rolls even on videos where I placed the ones I wanted manually.
Yeah I think UA-cam has a note saying if you don’t allocate ads “appropriately” UA-cam will do it for you and is why videos from long ago will get a fuck tonne of ads without the creator knowing
Aside from creators bot getting paid, the worst part is how you can't report obviously predatory/scam ads. Sometimes there isn't even an option for blocking a specific ad.
It feels like the whole site is running on scam money, since even a huge chunk of creator sponsors are more or less shady
I've noticed that they removed the option to say you aren't interested in them or they are repetitive/ not relevant.
You know a UA-camr vid about ads is crap when they can't even mention there are ways to not see any. AD BLOCKING extensions!! Block ads and support creators directly with memberships, donations etc.
When did they remove that??!! Omg
@@toolbaggersadblockers don't have a 100% reliability rate because UA-cam is determined to work around them and adblockers are being forced to evolve with that so there are gaps here and there
I used to report many ads because I wasn't interested. Well UA-cam/Google didn't like that and disabled my "adult account"; I cannot click on age restricted videos anymore, I get weird ads all over the place that are not specific and I'd need to send them a pic of my passport or credit card to be able to watch what I want. So, be careful what you do😂
I know what drives me nuts is how ads work on TV apps now. The little yellow "must watch this much" timer will show up at MUCH higher times than I've ever seen on my phone/tablet/computer, 10 seconds max vs 45 seconds some times. And not only that, I've had COUNTLESS times where an ad ends on the moment the skip button becomes active, and it starts a new ad with yet ANOTHER count down before I can skip.
I always get scam ads on UA-cam. It’s so annoying but ignored it and I always get unrelated ads whenever I want to watch a video. I get really annoyed
I literally changed my age to like 14, to just avoid some of the ads I keep telling Google or UA-cam to not show. It seems some ads do not show up at all but there ones that you cannot escape. The political ads seem to appear no matter what age you set yourself. I changed my age back since it didn't matter, the ads will target you no matter what.
Interesting strategy. I keep getting horrible transphobic ads I can't seem to block permanently. When I try to see why I'm being targeted, it's usually because of my age (late 40s) 🙄
@@JP-ve7orThe transphobic ads are really hurtful and I don't think UA-cam should be accepting money for these people to spread hatred.
@@JP-ve7orWhat does a transphobic ads entail? No brain dead circular reasoning please, this is not a Fascist Dictatorship where your word is writ.
@@Blissblizzardim guessing transphobia, could be wrong tho
Sounds odds youtube would let such an ad show if it the truth. Given how many times has someone took issue with youtube, that lead to all content creators being effected due to less ad income? For this sound like it would easily lead to another ad apocalypse as the content creators called it. Then again this is youtube. That seems to let the most questionable ad play, at least if it for a mobile game.
It's wild that you had 14 subs like two months ago and now you have over 61k. You're doing a great job, Zack!!
Thanks so much! It truly is wild.
@@ZackarySmigel you got anotha one from me, see you at 1 million bro
@@ZackarySmigel why do you use runescape music in every video?
2 months?? That's impressive as hell.
The algorithm went pretty wild here. The previous video showed up in my feed randomly and now this one too. Let me just add to the sub pile, it’s good stuff
I don't like how i get an ad. Rotate my phone for full screen then met with another ad.
That is annoying
I've noticed a huge change in the amount of ads I receive on long form content on UA-cam, SPECIFICALLY while watching on my TV. It's not nearly as bad on my phone. But for an hour of content, I can sometimes receive up to 10 minutes of ads. It's awful!
I've probably lost over 3k to the ypp wait time, I completely agree that a piggy bank system needs to be implemented for new creators.
FRAG
@@bagel1 WSG BAGEL WHERE YOU BEEN
Went from UA-cam: Broadcast yourself to UA-cam: Advertise scams
The “UA-cam premium lite” is actually a genius idea. I’d pay for that honestly.
Yes. I am annoyed at the monetisation system. My channel's monetisation is still broken despite being in the partner program/Monetised.. It earns literally nothing, not even one penny.
first reply
@@jeliam06your grammar styl 😅
Wow you are an old account
you have 1 video?
I don't see how a channel with 1 video is ever going to get monetized, but you do you.
In the past 6 months I haven't seen an ad that didn't look like a scam
It’s happened on Spotify too. During 2021 I counted *seven* 10-30 second ads in a row before my next song played. I didn’t know that could even be feasible 😂
When COVID lockdowns first began and new UA-cam videos slowed to a trickle, the ads were crazy. Dan Olson parodied them in his “contrapeneurs” video but on certain days ads were apparently so cheap there would be full scam movie ads (skippable, thankfully) at 90 minutes to two hours long. One day I saw a 3:39 unskippable ad and I gave up on UA-cam and watched Netflix the rest of the day.
@@biguattipoptropica I saw a screenshot of a 4h ad once. (Or was it 40? It might have been 40).
They're skippable of course but the target audience is toddlers who won't skip anything.
Nagh, been using a cracked spotify since like 2-3 years. No ads and i don't pay.
Spotify is aggravatingly bad with ads.
@@reflectingPastChoicesone time I got an ad that was the entire first Lego movie! I thought it was actually kind of cool, I ended up watching some of it
*An advertisement at the start and end of a video is reasonable.*
But they are spamming it too often now. A complete deterrence.
Even more annoying is its usually the same ad constantly repeated over and over at a louder volume.
Not to mention the intrusive ‘next video’ popup at the end of videos that blocks the screen so you can’t see.
The ‘recommended’ non-video ads and shorts can also be offensive and inappropriate, and you can not block them.
And there should be a filter to block out all videos without audio or ‘captions subtitles’ translations in your own language.
Its choresome scrolling through so many foreign language videos just to find something you can understand.
We predominantly watch UA-cam through our roku device on our tv, and we ended up getting premium due to the absolutely insane amount of ads playing during videos and the extremely inappropriate ads running on our restricted children's profile. On a 30 minute video, ads would run every 5 minutes, then drop to every 60 seconds! Many of these ads would be unskippable as well. Our breaking point was an ad for a hentai video game playing while our toddler was trying to watch Blippi. The fact that creators get demonized for silly reasons while UA-cam shows sexually explicit content to my children is infuriating.
I really love it when I'm trying to watch cute bird videos with my mum and I get an un-skippable horror movie ad 🙃
It's really scummy as well because with the increase in ads they're clearly trying to push/ force everyone to get premium
By the way guys I mostly use mobile so if you know about any ad blockers that work on either android or iOS feel free to share with the class
or use an ad blocker
@@scpatl4now can't really get that in the app/ on mobile (or if you can pls let me know I guess) and I can't be bothered to watch stuff on desktop all the time
Yeah, noticing this more and more lately - I thought they had addressed that after people complained years ago. 0_o
@@DanknDerpyGamer I guess not 😭 they're probably hoping to annoy everyone into subscribing to premium
Just using that blocker they’re literally free
I think the worst of the worst part about UA-cam's ad situation is that its basically holding the content creators hostage. Because they know damn well that if they have to revise their ad situation, they aren't taking shit for damage, the creators on their platform are.
Finally, someone that’s talking about these ad problems, I’ve been shown a lot of ads and most of them are always stupid, they even became inappropriate like asking people “are you gay” or “become a girls king” or even like “come and see private photos of girls” and my god man I’m just trying to watch a funny video! I don’t wanna see some stupid game ad about cringe people trying to force you to buy their game and buying their coins, I almost got in trouble because a sexual ad pop up while I was watching a video and my mom could of thought I was watching a man and a woman were doing their thing, UA-cam needs to fix this stupid problem
I got an ad after "It's true. Let me explain" a decent cliffhanger. 7/10
I would get the same game ad called “Royal Match”, no matter what video I watch. So I’m grateful that you’re addressing UA-cam’s ad issues.
Same here, no amount of endorsements from celebrities I don't care about will make me play their lame bejeweled rip off when I can probably find a better one without microtransactions on F-droid or something.
There were a few months where half the ads I got were for O'Reiley's Auto Parts. I got so sick of those ads that for a long time I specifically avoided shopping there, lol. Their jingle still makes me reflexively cringe...
Royal Match should be banned
@@Draggobuttboi exactly! Plus if you do decide to download and play it, you’ll still get more ads when you’re playing the game. Ads from UA-cam and ads from the game. We’re constantly have to keep watching ads, that aren’t even interesting anyways
If UA-cam only did one change, I'd like it to be able to see titles of deletet/removed/"unavailable" Videos in playlists. I hate having a 1000 Video Song playlist and about 100 of them not being available and have no clue which ones they are so that I can replace them
The ads are the reason I stopped watching YT on mobile, it's nearly impossible to enjoy the experience without ad blocker
Vanced 💀
i dont use ad block cuz of you guys, legit youtubers, but i freaking hate the repeated ads, i wish i was able to dislike ads like it was in the past
This is why I pay for UA-cam premium, can’t stand the ads, but want to support the creators I like still.
Guys quick hack. If you are on the online desktop version. When you click on a video from the homepage and it gives you an ad, quickly click the go back button then the go forward button and the ad will be gone.
this is the same thing as getting an ad blocker@@elmog9101
Some ads you can still manually remove but i'll literally get softcore pron and actual like phishing links as ads and i go click the three dots to click the 'stop seeing this ad' button and they REMOVED IT 💀actual cancer
Use ad block for your own safety, just whitelist the pages you're willing to see ads for
As a small creator under monetization requirements, I find it SUPER annoying that UA-cam is putting ads on my videos and are getting away with it scotch free, without paying me a dime. I know that they can do that since its their program, but it sucks regardless...
I mean tbf you do only get a few hundred views per video so you’d get like maybe a dollar per. It wouldn’t be much
You know something is wrong when you get an ad telling you how to remove ads...
They need to fix their problem of inappropriate ads.
I used to actually let ads play in full for the creators I liked because I was a marketing student interested in the monetisation, and supporting them however I could, even faking a CTR sometimes because I heard it paid more. I was broke and couldn’t pay Patreon benefits or anything, so I wanted to help. Now I’d be luckily to be able to get even remotely the same length of VIDEO that I do ads, I’ll get a 30 second ad on a seven second video posted 13 years ago, and not a cent of that goes to the creator.
i really like how your thumbnails and titles compliment eachother. congrats on your much deserved success!
Thank you so much!!
@@ZackarySmigel Bit of feedback on that though. Thumbnail colour scheme and graphic is suggestive. Thought the video was going to be about ads being NSFW or something like that. Good video nonetheless but does create a false expectation going in.
@@MrSmokey247I think that was the point, it intrigued you into watching the video then subverted your expectations.
@@Bwalston910 That's clickbait
@@MrSmokey247 Welcome to UA-cam, enjoy your stay.
The scam-ads are the reason why the adblock extensions are necessary.
most of those dating sites are scams
If UA-cam gives me a 15 second unskippable ad i will never buy from that company ever again. I’ll actively seek out competitions because of that ad.
That still technically means the ad worked since it makes you aware of the competitors and makes you go and find them and buy their products.
The two worst things that has ever hit UA-cam was the algorithm and ads.
You dont understand IT when you think "the algorithm" is
1. something they added on top of the original plattform
2. and wasnt here since literal day 1.
3. isnt a fundamental bulding block for a video website that suggest videos to users
And ads arent really the problem, the amount and the consistency in which they increase them is.
Ads are the reason i use this plattform for close to 15 years - and not 2.
Because you go broke when you dont make any money. If you go broke your service goes offline.
you don't like the algorithm?
@@gandalf_thegreytypical um ackshually nerd
"the algorithm"? brother, no matter fucking what they're doing, if you're getting shown videos, it's an algorithm.
Something that I feel like people don't talk about enough is the inherently cannibalistic nature of advertising. Especially advertising of this level. I've basically come to the point where if I see a product through a youtube pre-roll ad, I legitimately feel less inclined to buy that ptoduct. It's equivalent of walking down the street, minding your own business, then out of nowhere, some random person comes up to you and starts shoving a brochure in your face going "lookie lookie! Isn't cool? You should give me money!"
At this point, it pretty much feels like if a company needs to advertise their product, it's garbage or a scam. If I need something, I'm just gonna compare options and reviews (which can be sketchy in itself anymore, unfortunately). Just bought a new vacuum a few months ago, but can't tell you the last time I even saw an ad for one. I just went off of reviews and my needs. vOv
@@brandonatherton It's very rare for people to click on a product after they see an ad. Companies know that. So they take a different approach that has to do with human psychology.
When you're at the store and you have to pick between 2 items you are much more likely to buy said item from a brand that's familiar(you heard their name in ads) than from a brand you never heard of.
Although I feel like this trick is used a lot more in TV since you can't have personalized ads there.
I once thought the same but now I’ve come to the realisation that even if you hate a certain brand or product, you *will* think about it if you’re ever in need of something related to that brand or product and that is what’s advertising is all about. Don’t underestimate the power of repetition and how it affects the population at large. We are all trained from a young age to prefer certain things and brands. If you want to know more about how this came about and how it works, read Edward Bernay’s book “Propaganda”.
You feel the same, do you? 😟 The Lookie Lookie part... I get advertisements for mobile games, and while I am a mobile game researcher since 2015, heck, even I pay Microtransactions for sake of "research", I don't need to see Royal Match a thousand times when I already investigated it and found out "it is the same game as candy crush, but prettier graphically!". I already investigated 50 mobile games out of... 10,000 and let me tell you that Lords Mobile, and Evony: The King's Return are just ... The most predatory Money Farms I have ever seen, pretty, but predatory 😮💨
I agree!!! Stuff I see ads for immediately lose their credibility to me. Not that I have ever bought something from an ad, but now I actively avoid it
Remember when they added or had the yellow bar to show when an ad was coming up so you could skip over it and go back to miss the ad. They removed that nice quality of life feature a while ago along with basically adding two ads to every time ad plays. I miss when UA-cam had one ad at beginning and one at the end that was nice.
Also I love the audacity of UA-cam to play an ad on me while I had a video PAUSED for like 5 minutes. That only happened once but the audacity of it is mindboggling.
It is also incredibly scummy to update TOS, again fucking over smaller creators that likely don't have the platform or influence to speak up about it or contacting bigger creators to speak out for them. They are basically saying you aren't big enough for us to worry about but we will take all of your money anyway.
I hate that UA-cam has become cable with ad frequency, ad disrupting content, and the sameyness of them. If showing me ad for x product that I had no intention of buying didn't work, what do you think showing 10 to 20 of them every day will do? And yes the scam ads and general low quality ads are a big problem. UA-cam will basically let anyone advertise on their site in pursuit of profit.
There is actually an easy work around to avoid ads on YT. Simply scroll over the video you want to watch and press the volume unmute button in the top right corner. The video should start playing on its own. Don’t click into the video otherwise you’ll be forced to watch ads. It only sucks a little bit because you can’t enjoy the full screen. But definitely it sucks when you try to listen to an album on the road, ad after ad after ad… It really ruins/ diminishes the whole experience. To access the comments for this video lone behold an ad popped up. Super annoying
5.2k views, 2.6k likes, 651 comments. What a ratio, what a channel. Thanks for the engaging content. Exactly what youtube connoisseurs been looking for
Thanks so much for the kind words! That's the goal. I love making this as much as a conversation as possible!
@@ZackarySmigelhave you happened to notice a discrepancy in the audio volumes in the ads as well? Sometimes I have to turn my volume so high just to hear something in a video and right after I turn up the volume an ad will play and it’s extremely loud. Much louder than the actual video on full volume. It’s super annoying. Just wondering if was just me lol.
@@TheOriginalDuckley It's not just you and it's not just UA-cam, we've been experiencing that one since the dawn of ads on television. Nothing like watching a nice quiet movie and then getting blasted by ads because you didn't manage to lower the volume in time for the ad break!
I find it way more annoying that when I’m talking about something with a friend I go on UA-cam a few days later to find a video exactly about that topic without ever having searched it, it’s becoming more frequent and it’s scary
That has actually been happening to me too.
I was speaking aloud to a friend when we were watching music videos "Man i wish these videos had subtitles of the lyrics on so i could read the meaning (Foreign language songs for example.) Instantly, after next video, every single video had lyrics pasted on them.. Holy fuck that was creepy.
I just talked about this yesterday. I get inundated with a specific ad from a political pac that wants to see a certain former president exit the race and that if he runs, current president wins and America loses.
I do not care where you stand on this. I see this video 7-10 times an hour and I don’t watch political videos, I watch wrestling rumor and action figure collector videos and I constantly get these awful political ads.
My specific viewing habits are specifically designed to avoid politics. Because nothing is more depressing in 2023 than the political climate.
I think I am targeted because of my location in these United States. Despite not being wanting to see these types of ads.
9:12 Used to love this platform. All went downhill in 2020. The 1k sub 4k h threshold, 2 15 second ads in the beginning and ads at end, broken search, premium price increase. It’s genuinely *toxic*
I’ve been watching YT since 2007: UA-cam has always been quietly ramping up the ads from my perspective.
From the small banners at the bottom of the video, to the one skippable ad, to the sometimes unskippable ad, to the added midrolls, to putting ads on videos from creators who aren’t monetized, to the two ads in a row, and, in the last month, having to manually skip both ads. It has felt especially different since the adpocalypse and since the rise of AI (and, as a result, scam ads) in 2023.
Honestly though, this is good for me. I want to cut back on my YT usage (as a consumer, not as a content creator) and this is the perfect catalyst for that.
By that logic, I should wish for an ad, everytime I want to make a comment on a video.
Or back when you could see ads coming in advance by the yellow bar in the timeline 😭
Don't forget the infomercial multi-hour ads that seem to pop up late at night sometimes. I assume they do this when they expect people fell asleep watching youtube and will not skip the ad.
@@ODSTGeneralYTdude yes why aren’t more people up in arms over those?! I’m a “listen as I go to sleep” user and it’s a real pain when you wake up realising you’re an hour in to AN ADVERT like what gives?!
@@MatthewCornish Probably because they forget to after they got to sleep and wake back up.
I cannot stand ads on UA-cam, I understand the need for them of course but they are so aggravating its infuriating. If there was a UA-cam premium option that solely removed ads for a much smaller fee than the current UA-cam premium I would happily pay for it.
There is no need for them, you are paying with your data. They make far more with that than any ad revenue can ever generate.
There is in the Netherlands, and it's called Premium Lite. I have no idea why it's not available in every country.
@@pinobluevogel6458the only reason the data is worth anything/makes money is because the ads become more likely to lead to an actual purchase the more personalized they get. Not that that makes it any less creepy, but Im pretty sure thats the main reason.
@@pinobluevogel6458they don’t sell data. they use your data for ads. that’s how your data brings revenue
Honestly at this point I don't understand the need for them. I don't think Ads actually get watched by the majority of people these days, so it's effectively targeting 1% of the population while wasting 99% of other people's time, money and wear and tear on your devices.
This may seem insignificant but in the long run advertisements cause machines to perform more tasks and in return, cost all of humanity more money and materials.
It's a cancer to society.
The most frustrating thing about ads for me is that i lose a second either side of the actual video I'm trying to watch, so if there is a joke or explanation in thhose two seconds my viewing experience is screwed
The problem is that youtube has ads in the first place
I used to like listening to video essays while doing "boring" tasks (e.g. cleaning, repetitive lab work) on UA-cam, but the ads every 10 minutes make it so inconvenient that I've largely switched over to Apple Podcasts. I come back to UA-cam at the beginning/ end of every month since that's when most of my favourite creators post, but otherwise I don't use UA-cam.
I get four categories of ads:
-Very loud/ annoying mobile game ads
-Beauty/ skincare
-Crypto and stock investment (probably thanks to binge watching a lot of Coffezilla's stuff recently)
-Very specific local ads in my second language (I assume that Google is picking up on my location data, which is weird considering I've disabled a lot the ad tracking stuff).
UA-cam has a horrible ad experience. It completely ignores all of my sensitive topic categories. Ads are tossed in the most random categories. Weight loss ads are hidden as "fun tests and silly surveys." I've had mail order bride ads from Cyprus, lots of religious ads, lots of politics, and the worst offender of all; Temu. Mobile Game ads can be really gross as well, with Mafia style games where the first seconds of the ad is a "hottie in jail", or a tower defense game with a little guy pooping on a toilet (???? Most confusing ad ever) I report and block so many ads. Sometimes I have to block an ad several times before I stop seeing it, so I am pretty sure they are paying to upload identical ads multiple times. The ads are often offensive and completely out of control.
EDIT: OMG, I commented before I watched the video and sure enough, there is that tower defense game that I was talking about at 1:52. At least the one you showed wasn't the little blue haired fighter guy taking a dump.
Consider watching youtube on a machine that allows an adblocker, instead of only on a phone. At least you get to enjoy all the content instead of it being a highly frustrating experience. Let the content creators use their own product placement and ads in the video and let google make money of their data instead. (which they are already doing and is way more profitable than any ad revenue will ever be)
In July about half my ads were for Temu. Ridiculous. I wasn't interested in them before, and being inundated in their ads didn't help their case.
@@pinobluevogel6458 This is what I usually do. However when I am on mobile, I am at the mercy of the UA-cam app. My husband downloaded and installed NewPipe for me, but, it never worked right. I probably need to search for another one.
i have even received an ad for "childrens bathing suits" that came across as EXTREMELY suspicious and that the algorithm has no business showing me which is why i run three adblockers. im already burning my life away watching youtube im not gonna waste more of it watching text to speech chinese weight loss scam or malware ads, or actually any ad in general
youtube keeps showing me really transphobic and racist ads and when i tried to tell them to stop they told me i couldnt because im underaged
which means they are _knowingly showing racist and transphobic ads to children_
When a utube ad interrupts my video I immediately click on the "mute" button to prevent the sound from working. I wait for the commercial to end, than pause the video I was watching and finally "unmute" the sound. My only solace is that I have prevented 50% of the advertisement from functioning. LOL. I do what I can.
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Could you imagine not being paid as a film director for your movie's opening day, where most of the views and income are flowing in?
It's almost ironic how monetization works in that regard.
I relate so heavily to this. Like lord that MrBeast scam you showed for a quick second in the beginning; I have gotten it like at least 40 times while using youtube. I turn off all tracking possible so I get a lot of just weird ads, but the scam ones and the random mobile games truly drive me insane. Excellent video, hoping it will be a successful one for you just like your last one! :)
The MrBeast scam ads are especially insidious given that he regularly does charity work. The first time I saw one, I wondered if it might have actually been legit. I'm not a viewer of his channel, but the ad didn't exactly fit with what I know about how he does money give-aways, and that style of ad always sends up red flags for me. I can definitely see people getting fooled by that one.
Yeah i get lots of weird ads because of that too, and if i were to say what i saw my comment would be auto-deleted
@@GaleneIanthe yes exactly! I also don’t watch MrBeast but aren’t like most his viewers children as well? So it’s so especially disgusting with those ads being everywhere on the platform, makes me so sad to think that these kids get fooled by a scam like that