Youtube's Unskippable 30-second Ads Are Going Away

[Guest Kloaked]

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Youtube sucks all around. They change stuff all the time, some designs make no sense. Then you have Google starting to shove unwanted content from garbage channels in your face who are totally not shills and biased to one specific narrative.

 

You may not remember when literally everyone was throwing fits about Youtube implementing advertisements on videos, but now many people don't really care. It's been put on us so much that we either just skip when available or turn on some kind of ad block extension. It's become the norm. Google knows best amirite guise.

 

Well, now they're throwing out the idea of unskippable 30-second ads, right into the garbage where it belongs.

 

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Google has announced that it will cease allowing 30-second unskippable preroll ads on YouTube videos from next year, reports Campaign.

Google explained that its aim is to provide a better advertising experience for online users. “As part of that, we’ve decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers.”
 

 

 

 

Well I'll be gosh derned to heck, friend. Google is all of a sudden figuring out what the little people who are their products users want.

 

Weeeelllll.... not really.

 

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While it’ll be great to lose the most unpopular ad format, it isn’t all good news …


Aside from having to wait until next year, Google says that 20-second non-skippable ads will continue, and it will also be making heavier use of so-called ‘bumper ads’: unskippable 6-second ads.
 

 

 

MRW

 

 

The author of the article goes on to say that an "industry insider" says that Google/Youtube is worried about Facebook's video platform becoming a competitor to Youtube. I can see it happening as people who already have Facebook accounts can just directly upload to Facebook and not have to have a Google/Youtube account. I don't think advertisements exist on uploaded Facebook videos yet either, but I might be wrong.

 

If Google/Youtube would just stop screwing up the website (in terms of design and creator bias) then they wouldn't have to be worried I think. But what do I know.

 

 

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[givingtnt]

4 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

 

LTT forum mods. Lock every thread.

pls no ban ok

 

 

We have the best mods, don't we folks? 

well, that sure helps your case ?

 

inb4 lock I guess ?

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, givingtnt said:

well, that sure helps your case ?

It's a joke.

[deleted_member_030719]

They're making a lot of good choices lately... Cancelling PewDiePie's shows, deciding which videos are allowed on trending without any real reason, etc.

[sazrocks]

Now if we could just stop the stupid unskippable 2-3 MINUTE ads.

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, Jed M said:

They're making a lot of good choices lately... Cancelling PewDiePie's shows, deciding which videos are allowed on trending without any real reason, etc.

I hope they update the Youtube Android app to the iPhone version. Boy oh boy would that be the best decision ever

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I seriously don't understand what's the fuss is with YouTube ads. They're as shit not like the 5 minutes of constant ads you get on actual TV. People get it wrapped up in their heads that the internet is "free", so everything on it should be "free", when it's not. Go to the source video of any 30 second non-skippable ad and all people comment on is how the company is a scumbag for making an un-skippable ad. Entitlement much?  Just look at Air Canada's recent advertisement campaign, absolute cancer in the comment section. Not because of the content itself, but the fact that it's an ad, that's non-skippable.

[sazrocks]

2 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I hope they update the Youtube Android app to the iPhone version. Boy oh boy would that be the best decision ever

I (as an iPhone user) was unaware of a major difference between the two versions. What are the differences?

 

[Guest Kloaked]

3 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I seriously don't understand what's the fuss is with YouTube ads. They're as shit not like the 5 minutes of constant ads you get on actual TV. People get it wrapped up in their heads that the internet is "free", so everything on it should be "free", when it's not. Go to the source video of any 30 second non-skippable ad and all people comment on is how the company is a scumbag for making an in-skippable ad. Entitlement much?  Just look at Air Canada's recent advertisement complain, absolute cancer in the comment section. Not because of the content itself, but the fact that it's an ad, that's non-skippable.

The problem for me personally is that it used up data for me when I just wanted to watch a quick video. I ended up getting Youtube Red (comes with Google Play Music subscription) so I don't have this problem now, but still.

 

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

I (as an iPhone user) was unaware of a major difference between the two versions. What are the differences?

 

Navigation is slightly different. on iPhone from my understanding, the navigation buttons are on the bottom of the screen. On Android, they're toward the top and you can swipe between them instead of only having to press them.

[Guest]

YouTube on TV doesn't have adblocker rip

[Mr.Meerkat]

Ooooooo...Godbytes is looking at this thread...wonder if anything is going to happen...  

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Kloaked said:

The problem for me personally is that it used up data for me when I just wanted to watch a quick video. I ended up getting Youtube Red (comes with Google Play Music subscription) so I don't have this problem now, but still.

I suppose if it's proportionate to the video length, then it'll be better.

 

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Ooooooo...Godbytes is looking at this thread...wonder if anything is going to happen...  

Quickly, press backspace.

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Now if we could just stop the stupid unskippable 2-3 MINUTE ads.

You can skip them by pressing F5....

[TetraSky]

Eh... I use uBlock, never saw an ad on Youtube.

[Prysin]

@Kloaked

you mean they will go away after 30 seconds, rite?

[Prysin]

7 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

'cause your font and link thing at the top that you did at the top was factually annoying to the eye. So, when I edit a post, I follow a very formal layout. This allows me to edit quickly the thread and pass to other things and not start playing with styles, font size, and so on.

he is following the rules, Wether it is annoying to you, or not, shouldnt really matter, should it? If so, can we please have a "things that annoy the mods is illegal" clause added to teh Community guidelines?

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, Prysin said:

@Kloaked

you mean they will go away after 30 seconds, rite?

30 seconds from right now.

 

At this second.

 

This one.

[Prysin]

3 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

30 seconds from right now.

 

At this second.

 

This one.

what about this second?

 

or this?

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, Prysin said:

what about this second?

 

or this?

[sazrocks]

12 minutes ago, Enderman said:

You can skip them by pressing F5....

Not easy to do or convenient, especially on mobile.

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

Not easy to do or convenient, especially on mobile.

 

Pressing a single key is definitely easy...

How lazy are you??

On mobile press back and click the video again?

It will reload a new add which isn't unskippable.

 

[sazrocks]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Pressing a single key is definitely easy...

How lazy are you??

On mobile press back and click the video again?

It will reload a new add which isn't unskippable.

 

Except when you're on mobile and it may take 10-20 seconds to even load the video, which if I reload I will have to sit through again.

[Suika]

26 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I seriously don't understand what's the fuss is with YouTube ads. 

When you have a 1.5Mb/s connection and are barely able to load at 360p, when an advertisement insists on loading at 720p or 1080p, a 30 second video advertisement because 2-3 minutes of buffering.

[NunoLava1998]

I live in Madeira, Portugal and i get ads directed to people in Madeira Beach in Florida.

 

Love it. 10/10. Would kill the freaking St Pete clearwater ads again.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Except when you're on mobile and it may take 10-20 seconds to even load the video, which if I reload I will have to sit through again.

What kind of crappy mobile plan are you on?