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I wouldn't block ads on youtube if they weren't so incredibly invasive and frequent. They've had banner ads on video on many satellite TV channels in India for

I wouldn't block ads on youtube if they weren't so incredibly invasive and frequent. They've had banner ads on video on many satellite TV channels in India for 30 years now (maybe longer). The ads are creatively animated to draw attention without being intrusive.

judge2020 3y ago
YouTube's ads are only valuable to advertisers because they have the viewer's attention for those 5 or 15 seconds. Banner ads don't pay the bills at YouTube's scale.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Bills need to be paid, but delivering 1080p video gets cheaper every year.
  - judge2020 3y ago
    Delivering isn't expensive, but storing is. Estimates from 2019 were that YouTube ingests 500 hours of video every minute[0] - if we assume the most conservative bitrate for 1080p video, 4mbps, that's 900 gigabytes of video ingested every minute and 1.3PB every day - and a lot of videos are higher bitrate at 1080p or offer 1440p/4k options as well. Even if they're getting the best deal on Enterprise drives ever at $0.009/gb or $12k/day in storage costs, that's still half an exabyte a year, and with real-world storage sizes including 4k video, chances are they were already buying over 1 exabyte of storage every year in 2019 and are doing a lot more today. 0: https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/ https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-upl...
    - Dylan16807 3y ago
      I should have been more clear that I was talking about the ability for big video sites in general to exist, not youtube in particular. A big video site doesn't have to store every random non-watched video forever for free.