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The quality of ads also differentiates YouTube from other platforms (like proper TV) and even burned in sponsored messages. Ad reads in popular podcasts are mil
by clnq 3y ago
The quality of ads also differentiates YouTube from other platforms (like proper TV) and even burned in sponsored messages. Ad reads in popular podcasts are miles ahead in terms of quality.
The average ad on YouTube is scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of creativity, cinematography and appeal to people in general. I’m talking about the average ad with personalization off — the mobile game “mafia boss”, slightly pervy, and really weird shock value ads, or the get rich quick schemes, or even straight up crypto fraud. If some better advertisers are targeting you - consider yourself very lucky.
I do enjoy a good ad every now and then. Something creative and well executed. But that’s not what YouTube is serving. And you might hate all ads — it’s ok, everyone is different. Though I think some people would be ok with ads that are respectful of their time as I am one of them.
- rchaud 3y ago> Ad reads in popular podcasts are miles ahead in terms of quality. It depends. Podcast syndication services like PocketCast and Apple Podcasts now programmatically splice in ads into the audio files. You could be listening to some podcast from years ago and it would have ads for [present-day-thing]. Sometimes even in the middle of a sentence, because these dynamic ads can't event detect silent segments.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoInsertion is often at designated points to avoid cutting off a convo. So you'll hear them announce the break, then hear up to date and geolocated ads.