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I pay for YT Premium, and it really is a lot nicer than ad-supported YT (without an adblocker). In-video sponsorship messages can still be annoying, yes, but at
by leoc 5y ago
I pay for YT Premium, and it really is a lot nicer than ad-supported YT (without an adblocker). In-video sponsorship messages can still be annoying, yes, but at lesat they're fairly skippable. And despite all Google's other misdeeds, they hardly have primary responsibility for YouTube's in-video hustling. If they rolled out a way to make it easier for viewers to skip in-video sponsor segments then uploaders would be very unhappy.
- izacus 5y agoWhat YT could do is to have content creators mark those sponsored blocks and autoskip them for paid subscribers (with monetization cut of course). It's in their best interest to make paid experience good and keep people around. Ideally they could also offer paid content hosting so organizations like Blender or hospitals could host ad-free content and pay for the hosting/bandwidth costs directly.
- SpelingBeeChamp 5y agoWhy is the latter ideal for anyone? Right now people just use Vimeo for that. And it’s not ideal for YouTube because they make money by serving ads. They are a business. They are not just trying to cover their costs of delivering content.