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This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you
by scrollaway 6y ago
This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think).
"10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements.
It's infuriating, and once you know about it, you see it everywhere. Anyway, in this instance it matters a lot less as the audio is completely unimportant…
- alex_free 6y agoYouTube just changed the ad milestone to 8 minutes, and this was posted after this change.
- scrollaway 6y agoextremely recently, like a week ago or so, and this video was from 3 days ago; for the next few weeks I'm still going to look at the 10 min timestamp as more telling than an 8 min one (though I'm sure youtubers will "migrate"). Looking at the channel, 3 of its videos are between 10:04 and 10:09 long. Of course, that's nothing compared to a lot of other long-form youtubers I've seen with like 80% of their videos around that timestamp.
- Fiveplus 6y agoOn the same topic, who determines the '10 minute' and '8 minute' time scale perfect for engagement and how did they end up with these numbers?
- scrollaway 6y agoIt's the minimum length of time a video must be in order to enable mid-roll ads. The 10 minutes one seems pretty arbitrary, but to arrive at 8 mins I suspect that Google studies how much time there needs to be so that mid-roll ads don't negatively affect engagement. (Shout-out to all the wonderful, brilliant engineers working on figuring out how to minimize the user's reaction to cramming AS MANY ADS as possible down their brain)
- ryder9 6y agodon't know how they arrived at that specific number, but it was done because in the old days of youtube a lot of channels would spam 1-2 minute videos for that ad revenue that's why videos like these exist https://youtu.be/nfxpwbWBNuU https://youtu.be/nfxpwbWBNuU
- kube-system 6y agoI am guessing many uploaders just don't realize that yet.
- vmception 6y agodon't hate the player hate the game
- MVorlm 6y ago10 minutes is the the milestone for "mid-roll" ads. As far as I can tell, this video has no ads in the middle.
- coding123 6y agoI saw about 4 full-replacement of video ads. It might be because I selected 4K video. I wonder if they push more ads when you select a higher quality.
- dylan604 6y ago"As far as I can tell" by your comment, you did not watch the video. I didn't even finish half the video, and I stopped it just before the 2nd ad break started.
- btkramer9 6y agomaybe they have an ad blocker? I too watched the entire video and didn't see a single ad. Beginning, middle or end. I'm using adblock plus
- MacSystem 6y agoWhy don't you use Brave browser to get away with those ad?
- scrollaway 6y agoWhy don't you use Brave browser?
- tiborsaas 6y agoSo they put in effort to make this, you consume it for free and then you complain that they can monetize it? OK.
- playpause 6y agoThe comment was about when videos are artificially slowed down, not about monetisation per se.
- tiborsaas 6y agoBut they make it slow to monetize it. I got the point, but it's not really fair towards content creators.
- mitchdoogle 6y agoYes, people should be able to complain about things that are annoying and damage their experience. In this case, 10 minutes is an arbitrary time and the OP is arguing that this arbitrary number for monetization results in poorer quality videos.
- tiborsaas 6y agoJust in this case I'd complain that it's not 30 minute Mars imagery I 4k :)
- scrollaway 6y agoIf you read closely or at all, you'll note that your comment is incorrect.