Has anyone realised the new way YouTube does ads?

[filpo]

These past few weeks, i've realised that in a youtube video you don't get notified when an ad is coming up and its a bit of a surprise. I've also seen more ads in the videos in general (before it was about 2 maybe only 1 per 15 min vid, now its about 3 or 4). Anyone know why youtube is doing this (this might only be in my country tho, im in the uk)

[PcBeExpensive]

4 minutes ago, filpo said:

These past few weeks, i've realised that in a youtube video you don't get notified when an ad is coming up and its a bit of a surprise. I've also seen more ads in the videos in general (before it was about 2 maybe only 1 per 15 min vid, now its about 3 or 4). Anyone know why youtube is doing this (this might only be in my country tho, im in the uk)

Not seen in Aus.

[Totallycasual]

I haven't seen an ad in years. 

[WnDTech]

Watching on a TV is the worst experience i've had, Adds on videos where there are only a few adds usually, even including LTT videos which don't serve adds that i'm aware of,  litteraly sometimes every 3-5 minutes there is un- skippable adds.

 

It's a really crap viewing experience if I'm honest.

 

my guess is they see it being served on a TV app, and think "ahh man this is cool, lets make TV watchers have waaay more adds because they are used to it." No this is not the case, we don't have adds that often, because if we did complaints would be sent i'm pretty sure of that.

 

This is in the UK, so i can't speak for how adds are served in other countries, but this is not how it is here.

 

 

[WnDTech]

Just now, WnDTech said:

Watching on a TV is the worst experience i've had, Adds on videos where there are only a few adds usually, even including LTT videos which don't serve adds that i'm aware of,  litteraly sometimes every 3-5 minutes there is un- skippable adds.

 

It's a really crap viewing experience if I'm honest.

 

my guess is they see it being served on a TV app, and think "ahh man this is cool, lets make TV watchers have waaay more adds because they are used to it." No this is not the case, we don't have adds that often, because if we did complaints would be sent i'm pretty sure of that.

 

This is in the UK, so i can't speak for how adds are served in other countries, but this is not how it is here.

 

 

Just to add, if i watch the same video on a mobile device, or on PC, either no adds mid roll or just the one at the start and that's it. so this only seems to effect TV app served videos.

[filpo]

6 minutes ago, WnDTech said:

Just to add, if i watch the same video on a mobile device, or on PC, either no adds mid roll or just the one at the start and that's it. so this only seems to effect TV app served videos.

also it doesn't tell you when the ad is coming up. Like there isn't that yellow tag on the vid

[WnDTech]

25 minutes ago, filpo said:

also it doesn't tell you when the ad is coming up. Like there isn't that yellow tag on the vid

oh, that doesn't bother me. I've never seen that personally, what is anoying is adds every 3-5 minutes.

[Radium_Angel]

There are ads on YT?

This is news to me...

[venomtail]

1 hour ago, filpo said:

also it doesn't tell you when the ad is coming up. Like there isn't that yellow tag on the vid

If there is a yellow tag in the video, that's because who ever made the video explicitly placed an ad there. If an ad starts randomly in the middle of a video, youtube things you've watched long enough without seeing an ad so you'll see one now or you've got a add on leech on your browser spamming you more ads than there are meant to be.

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, venomtail said:

If there is a yellow tag in the video, that's because who ever made the video explicitly placed an ad there. If an ad starts randomly in the middle of a video, youtube things you've watched long enough without seeing an ad so you'll see one now or you've got a add on leech on your browser spamming you more ads than there are meant to be.

no i mean when there were tags previously there aren't anymore

[Lurking]

Why are you watching ads? Use adblockers to block the YT ads. There also are apps to block most in-video ads. 

 

Unless you really want to see the ads and you complaint is about not being notified, this is a moot topic. 

[QuantumSingularity]

I pay for Premium and i don't experience ads. $1.57/moth is certainly a price i can live with. There is the tiny inconvenience of having to VPN to india when billing, but well.. it's only 3 minutes so no biggie. 

[Donut417]

Yeah I don’t really get ads either. Hell I’m subscribed to ad supported Disney + and haven’t seen an ad. I figured Disney would figure out how to detect ad blockers, but I guess not. 

[Erioch]

4 hours ago, Totallycasual said:

I haven't seen an ad in years. 

Ditto.  I'm even piggy-backing on someone else's Youtube Premium account.

[Mihle]

If I watch YouTube Normally on PC I get ads at the start and maybe one mid roll sometimes if it's long enough.

 

If I open a video in private window in browser I get at least double the amount of ads if not more.

[thewelshbrummie]

5 hours ago, WnDTech said:

This is in the UK, so i can't speak for how adds are served in other countries, but this is not how it is here.

Keep in mind that UK TV regs limit ads to around 8mins per hour for the main channels (1-5), 12mins per hour for everything else.

 

Ad breaks can't exceed three minutes and 50 seconds and in programmes that last between 21 and 44 minutes there can only be one break.

 

The problem is that the rules either don't apply to online streaming, or are just flat out being ignored. A 15min YouTube video should only have pre-roll ads under those rules and you (and I) have noticed the problem because of how the UK ad rules on TV are enforced. (I've read plenty of Ofcom broadcast bulletins where they've fined a station for going just 3 seconds over the ad minutage limit).

 

Unfortunately that's not the case in the US, and the rules won't change as forcing TV companies to limit ads would be considered a 1st amendment violation (since realistically only government could change the rules). Since I moved state-side it's obvious that the rules are different and that on live TV you can come back for literally 10 seconds of content between ad breaks (particularly in sports but it does apply to pretty much everything, even the news). And with YouTube being a US based company it's clearly trickier to enforce the UK TV rules... assuming that those apply.

 

The only workaround for the actual YouTube app on a TV is to either not use it or get a PiHole to filter them out.

[Mark Kaine]

what ads?

 

On 3/31/2023 at 7:18 PM, thewelshbrummie said:

The only workaround

ublock (eh app? why? use a browser much better) 

[thewelshbrummie]

On 4/2/2023 at 8:56 PM, Mark Kaine said:

what ads?

 

ublock (eh app? why? use a browser much better) 

The person I was replying to was talking specifically about watching using the TV app, not connecting a computer to the TV or using a completely different device.

[Mark Kaine]

28 minutes ago, thewelshbrummie said:

The person I was replying to was talking specifically about watching using the TV app, not connecting a computer to the TV or using a completely different device.

cant you just install a browser though?  i don't use TVs, monitor only, last TV i had was a SONY Trinitron. (but i thought you could install stuff on "smart" TVs, otherwise what's the point ) 

[rrats]

On 3/31/2023 at 1:39 PM, filpo said:

Anyone know why youtube is doing this

On 3/31/2023 at 1:39 PM, filpo said:

These past few weeks, i've realised that in a youtube video you don't get notified when an ad is coming up and its a bit of a surprise

took me a while before i found out about modded youtube tv versions. it was unbearable. and yes they don't announce it now, just give you an ad. people aren't criticising the change that much, and even if they were i doubt youtube gives a shit