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I'm a creator, and your logic impacts me financially, although I don't depend on this money, here's why: Advertisers don't even know my channel exists. The only

I'm a creator, and your logic impacts me financially, although I don't depend on this money, here's why: Advertisers don't even know my channel exists. The only thing an advertiser knows about my channel is that my viewers tend to watch tech-related videos, and can be associated with other related metadata produced by deductive reasoning alone. When it comes time for XYZBlenderCorp to invest in advertising, they don't get presented with a list and short bio of all the channels their ad will be displayed in conjunction with, they get presented with a friendly demographic filter with sliders for age, and combo boxes for geographic location and other classifiers. If an advertisement for a video tutorial series teaching people how to use the 3d software Blender should happen to show up along a "Will It Blend" video, nobody should lose their job (or your money) over it. This mentality is ignorant of everything we know as technology professionals about how this business is run; so much of this process is automated and there is no conceivable way for it to not be. There are not enough humans needing jobs on this planet to manually sort video for prospective advertisers in the way you expect.

halflings 9y ago
I would argue that not moderating content is what would make you lose advertising money: There was a huge push back from YouTube ads after it was revealed big advertisers were shown on violent/extremist content, or videos about catastrophes ("Buy Kellogg's cereals!"... 400 killed in ____) ; YouTube has since improved their detection algorithm (even if it has more false positive, likely) to keep advertisers on the platform. It they didn't do this, the only alternative would be to WHITELIST advertisers, which would mean that nobody would pick you and only the big names would get revenue.
pfranz 9y ago
The filters are only as good as they have to be. If the filters didn't work at all, nobody would pay for them. If the filters showed adult content intermixed with children's content, that would be a problem. Intermixing Blender with "Will it Blend" videos likely isn't a problem, but if it was integral to the platform and really bad, it could drive the Blender community away.

halflings 9y ago

I would argue that not moderating content is what would make you lose advertising money: There was a huge push back from YouTube ads after it was revealed big advertisers were shown on violent/extremist content, or videos about catastrophes ("Buy Kellogg's cereals!"... 400 killed in ____) ; YouTube has since improved their detection algorithm (even if it has more false positive, likely) to keep advertisers on the platform. It they didn't do this, the only alternative would be to WHITELIST advertisers, which would mean that nobody would pick you and only the big names would get revenue.

pfranz 9y ago

The filters are only as good as they have to be. If the filters didn't work at all, nobody would pay for them. If the filters showed adult content intermixed with children's content, that would be a problem. Intermixing Blender with "Will it Blend" videos likely isn't a problem, but if it was integral to the platform and really bad, it could drive the Blender community away.