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> I don’t think YouTube is to blame here. They are. They opened the floodgates of coddling advertisers. Before they did, no one listened to them at all.
by sam0x17 4y ago
> I don’t think YouTube is to blame here.
They are. They opened the floodgates of coddling advertisers. Before they did, no one listened to them at all.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIs that true? Even back in the TV days I remember people going after advertisers who advertised on certain channels or programs (to protest if the advertisers were supporting "bad" content)
- sam0x17 4y agoI mean specifically in the world of online advertising. For a long time it was essentially CPM with no targeting, and that was considered fine.
- kube-system 4y agoCompanies have always had a say about where their ads are placed. This is a core responsibility of any company’s marketing department. Advertisers don’t just get customers out of thin air, they have to convince their customers to become customers.
- edmundsauto 4y agoThis is incorrect, advertisers and especially the American Christian lobby is responsible for most of the censorship leverage. Back in the day, it was conservatives doing all the censorship because Johnny couldn’t hear a profanity on tv without becoming an idiot. (At home was always fine, that is of course freedom of speech).