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No, no, no, this is letting YouTube off the hook. The whole reason content creators started doing in-video promotions is because YT kept squeezing them for ad r
by arrosenberg 4y ago
No, no, no, this is letting YouTube off the hook. The whole reason content creators started doing in-video promotions is because YT kept squeezing them for ad revenue. The top comment is absolutely correct - adfree should be adfree - that is YouTube’s problem to solve, not the customer’s.
- scarface74 4y agoWould you rather Google police content and not allow native ads that the content producer includes?
- arrosenberg 4y agoI'd be fine with it personally, but I think that'd be a really silly way to go about it. They could provide advertiser tools to the content providers that respect premium accounts. Not super hard, but here's the catch, and oooh baby is it a doozy - they have to pay fair rates for advertising. I know that's going to be hard to stomach, but if they do pay fairly, I suspect most content producers would be happier with that arrangement.
- q-big 4y ago> Would you rather Google police content and not allow native ads that the content producer includes? Why not downrank such videos a little bit - just like Google attempts to downrank pages that look like made by content farms? Since a lot of YouTube creators are very concerned about their ranking, this should decrease the problem of sponsored segments/videos a lot.
- scarface74 4y agoSo now we want BigTech “to control what people see?” Why not just not watch content from content creators that make videos that have content that you don’t like?
- jsnell 4y agoDo you have a source for this claim? As far as I know, the cut of the ad revenue going to the creators has not changed since the introduction. It was 55% a decade ago, it's 55% today.