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I have premium, but some content creators still do some product placements for sponsors.

grawprog 6y ago
I personally don't mind the product placements and sponsor stuff creators put in videos. I prefer those to the built in youtube ads any day. Especially when video creators get creative with their placements.
- dvtrn 6y ago
  When the creator finds a way of writing the ad into the rest of the content I'm already there to watch in the first place it's kind of great and I applaud the creativity, like you said. Wisecrack does this really well from time to time, I forget the movie review but they snuck an ad read in there that was so relevant and fitting that when Jared (the host) copped to it at the end of the episode I had to go back and rewatch to even realize "holy cow that WAS an ad". It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch.
  - grawprog 6y ago
    >It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch. This for sure. Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before, it's somehow suspiciously 'relevant' to what google thinks it knows about me, and can appear without warning once, twice, maybe even 3 times in a 10-15 minute video depending on, well I'm honestly not sure what after trying to figure it out for a while now, and may or may not be skippable, depending on again, I'm not too sure what.
    - dvtrn 6y ago
      Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before Yup. I'm one of the rubes who ponied up for youtube premium out of my 'fun money' funds account to get away from this. It's kind of weird, some of us asked for this "I'll happily pay to get rid of the ads", Google called that bet and dammit I folded haha.
kawfey 6y ago
This is fine, because all of the ad revenue goes to the creator. Adsense (pre-roll, banners, etc) is mostly kept by Google. Creators need to be paid for their creations too.
- foggyeyes69 6y ago
  Creators get 55% of YouTube Ad Revenue
grozzle 6y ago
Good point. The podcasts I support via Patreon mostly provide a premium feed with with the sponsor-spots edited out. This seems like a good idea for YouTube Premium to get creators to do; it'd make me much more likely to actually pay for Premium. As it is, it youtube-dl everything to my Pi and play it through Kodi on my TV, so the regular ads never reach me anyway.
renegading 6y ago
There is a Firefox extensions that aims to solve that problem[1]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ Edit: Chrome Version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

I personally don't mind the product placements and sponsor stuff creators put in videos. I prefer those to the built in youtube ads any day. Especially when video creators get creative with their placements.

dvtrn 6y ago
When the creator finds a way of writing the ad into the rest of the content I'm already there to watch in the first place it's kind of great and I applaud the creativity, like you said. Wisecrack does this really well from time to time, I forget the movie review but they snuck an ad read in there that was so relevant and fitting that when Jared (the host) copped to it at the end of the episode I had to go back and rewatch to even realize "holy cow that WAS an ad". It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch.
- grawprog 6y ago
  >It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch. This for sure. Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before, it's somehow suspiciously 'relevant' to what google thinks it knows about me, and can appear without warning once, twice, maybe even 3 times in a 10-15 minute video depending on, well I'm honestly not sure what after trying to figure it out for a while now, and may or may not be skippable, depending on again, I'm not too sure what.
  - dvtrn 6y ago
    Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before Yup. I'm one of the rubes who ponied up for youtube premium out of my 'fun money' funds account to get away from this. It's kind of weird, some of us asked for this "I'll happily pay to get rid of the ads", Google called that bet and dammit I folded haha.

kawfey 6y ago

This is fine, because all of the ad revenue goes to the creator. Adsense (pre-roll, banners, etc) is mostly kept by Google. Creators need to be paid for their creations too.

foggyeyes69 6y ago
Creators get 55% of YouTube Ad Revenue

grozzle 6y ago

Good point. The podcasts I support via Patreon mostly provide a premium feed with with the sponsor-spots edited out. This seems like a good idea for YouTube Premium to get creators to do; it'd make me much more likely to actually pay for Premium. As it is, it youtube-dl everything to my Pi and play it through Kodi on my TV, so the regular ads never reach me anyway.

renegading 6y ago

There is a Firefox extensions that aims to solve that problem[1]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ Edit: Chrome Version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...