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I don't fully agree with you. There are some channels that do sponsorships well: Jay Foreman, Tom Scott, etc. There are some that do it terribly: Kursgesagt re
by ajayyy 7y ago
I don't fully agree with you. There are some channels that do sponsorships well: Jay Foreman, Tom Scott, etc.
There are some that do it terribly: Kursgesagt recently, Wendover productions (I hate deceptive segues), etc.
You can see more about my thoughts on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780728
I guess it's a personal choice, but I prefer tracked ads that are properly labeled and not deceptive to integrated sponsorships and product placement any day. The real fear is that an extension like this will encourage even more deceptive and hard to skip sponsors (embeded product placement).
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- swampthinker 7y agoWendover has the most obvious, telegraphed segues. On top of that, the sponsorship is left at the end of the video. Linus on the other hand I completely agree with.
- ajayyy 7y agoI haven't watched wendover in over a year since I was sick of his sponsorships, but I remember never knowing when the end of a video was, because the sponsors were part of the same sentence.
- codeisawesome 7y agoUgh as long as we’re all complaining - I HATE Linus’ thumbnails these days! The overweight man in them is intentionally photographed to make him look less presentable to attract eyeballs. Thumbnail manipulation sucks!!!
- viraptor 7y agoWhat do you mean by intentionally less presentable? Anthony looks the same as in videos. He's not your classical movie model, but he's a member of the staff - he leads almost all the videos with him in the thumbnail. How is that manipulation?
- codeisawesome 7y agoSorry, I didn’t know his name and my comment seems extra cruel (FWIW I was overweight just as much, once). So I dunno, I feel like they stick the camera up in his face and do a low angle shot. It makes him look odd, which makes you look at the thumbnail. Also, he never smiles in the thumbnails, which adds to the oddness. Finally there was one thumbnail recently where he was bending his neck in a weird way, I don’t like it. Nobody needs to be a movie model, but some basic grooming and presentability is important.
- COGlory 7y agoI think it's just shyness/awkwardness. Wendell from L1T used to look the same back when he was part of the TekSyndicate channel. Eventually he sharpened up his appearance and his on-camera demeanor.
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- egwynn 7y agoI dunno, I find LTT and Wendover’s sponsorship segues to be pretty ham-fisted and obvious. They’re always like, “… and that’s why X is like riding a bike. And speaking of riding bikes…” EDIT: I think they delibterately do them that way to be charmingly cheesy, and I mostly appreciate it becuase then I always know when to close the video.
- ajayyy 7y agoThis kurzgesagt video is what made me start work on this extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgT6zx4k3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgT6zx4k3Q No mention of sponsor, doesn't say "supported by" accept in the top comment that was added later (not at the beginning). The description one wasn't there originally either. It literally says "because we want you to have nice things, you can get a 30 day free trial". You can't get more deceptive than that. - Developer
- egwynn 7y agoI mean… the description starts with a plug for Dashlane.
- ajayyy 7y agoThat wasn't there I'm pretty sure, and even still, it doesn't say sponsored anywhere, just a plug for it. Yes, it is obvious to us what it is, but to an outsider or child? It is manipulative to those people.
- jlgaddis 7y ago90% of my YouTube "consumption" is on a Roku which doesn't show video descriptions, comments, etc.
- Nextgrid 7y agoOn that note, I miss the time when descriptions were, you know, actual descriptions of the video and not a dumping ground for the exact same trash on every video that nobody cares about like social media, Discord, etc (those things should go in the channel's about page as they are not specific to a single video).
- anoncow 7y agoLTT does it extremely well. The sponsored section is clearly marked and adds to the experience.
- ajayyy 7y agoTrue, I shouldn't have included them in that list, they are edited out now.
- SimbaOnSteroids 7y agoI have to disagree about Sam's segues, they're legitimately one of the best parts of Wendover Production's and Half as Interesting's videos. Unless you're paying attention he gets you every time, and suddenly it's like you're back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
- ajayyy 7y agoI'm sure some people are okay with them, but they drove me to never watch his videos :/ Maybe I will try watching his videos again with this extension, I don't know.
- sc11 7y ago> Unless you're paying attention he gets you every time That's exactly why I dislike them. Ads should be clearly separated from the actual content, visually and audibly, imo.
- SimbaOnSteroids 7y agoFor me it's like getting Rick Rolled, it's amusing for the same reason a magic trick is amusing.
- ajayyy 7y agoYes, but for an outsider not part of the joke, like a child or old person, they don't know about that