Yeah, they're trying to find the optimal balance between pissing people off so as many as possible subscribe, and driving away their ad revenue. It's a dumb methodology, but ad revenue is in freefall and subscription services are increasingly under pressure in a saturated market.
Yeah, they're trying to find the optimal balance between pissing people off so as many as possible subscribe, and driving away their ad revenue. It's a dumb methodology, but ad revenue is in freefall and subscription services are increasingly under pressure in a saturated market.
The issue for youtube is that it expanded as much as it could a long time ago.
The only direction for it to go in terms of profit-seeking is to permanently deteriorate in quality via ever increasing methods of monetisation.
This eventually results in services destroying themselves by being bad enough for something else to enter the market.