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YouTube Will Put Ads on Non-Monetized Videos Without Paying the Creators

12 points by elcomet 6y ago

uniqueid 6y ago
I don't remember the entire world deliberating over whether every library, teacher, school, researcher, film studio, political candidate, government, historian, poet, artist, musician, independent broadcaster... should store their video with a single company (and, at that, a single company with an empty chair as a CEO). It just happened. The internet is centralized now, and, to put it bluntly, it's shitty and brittle and user-hostile. And now all our video has ads. Terrific.
- blueflame7 6y ago
  Of course we deliberated and went with the free version at our own expense
- mikece 6y ago
  > It just happened. Because it was free to us and video files are large... and if you're making a lot of them then "storing" them on YouTube is easier than on your computer/backup drive/NAS. I saw in a CNBC video (on YouTube, of course) that YouTube's revenue is almost TWICE of Google Cloud Platform. I imagine the info they can glean about us (the videos for which we search, the recommendations on which we click) are nearly as valuable as the ads since it allows YouTube to be able to target ads to a per-user interest level, which can be used everywhere Google sells ads and not just on YouTube.
elcomet 6y ago
More information here : https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube... And the explanation from google support : https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719?hl=en&msgid=83733719 https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719?hl=en&msg...
tomhoward 6y ago
Big discussion already in the past 24-36 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 (926 points/721 comments)
merricksb 6y ago
Big discussion already in the past 24-36 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 (926 points/721 comments)

12 points by elcomet 6y ago

I don't remember the entire world deliberating over whether every library, teacher, school, researcher, film studio, political candidate, government, historian, poet, artist, musician, independent broadcaster... should store their video with a single company (and, at that, a single company with an empty chair as a CEO). It just happened. The internet is centralized now, and, to put it bluntly, it's shitty and brittle and user-hostile. And now all our video has ads. Terrific.

blueflame7 6y ago
Of course we deliberated and went with the free version at our own expense
mikece 6y ago
> It just happened. Because it was free to us and video files are large... and if you're making a lot of them then "storing" them on YouTube is easier than on your computer/backup drive/NAS. I saw in a CNBC video (on YouTube, of course) that YouTube's revenue is almost TWICE of Google Cloud Platform. I imagine the info they can glean about us (the videos for which we search, the recommendations on which we click) are nearly as valuable as the ads since it allows YouTube to be able to target ads to a per-user interest level, which can be used everywhere Google sells ads and not just on YouTube.

elcomet 6y ago

More information here : https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube... And the explanation from google support : https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719?hl=en&msgid=83733719 https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719?hl=en&msg...

tomhoward 6y ago

Big discussion already in the past 24-36 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 (926 points/721 comments)

merricksb 6y ago

Big discussion already in the past 24-36 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 (926 points/721 comments)