It's like I can feel myself detach from whatever topic I'm listening to as I expect it to be a lead up for Raid Shadow Legends.
It's like I'm gonna disengage from serious things because I'm just waiting to see how they are going to ask for money.
I get it's to keep engagement, but it's doing the opposite. I don't want you to slip between conversation into a commercial like that's not creepy as fuck. It's like the Truman show, but nobody's even watching you. I dunno, it's not fun out here.
What really helped me stay focused during ad breaks was picking up a pair of Raycon earbuds. They provided me with premium noise cancellation at a fraction of the price!
That's why I drink AG1, to give me the essential nutrients I need to get through ad breaks!
A skill issue not to be using this? Yes absolutely, thankfully an easily rectified one.
Use sponsorblock and just send them a lil money instead if you like them enough
An individual solution is fine, but I'm more bothered by the consequences this is having on getting and sharing information you can trust to be genuine.
If someone is making a video on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall and decide to sneak in an ad about earbuds or VPNs, that doesn’t seem to really affect the integrity.
If you’re doing a video on privacy or the best earbuds and your sponsors are one of those, obviously it’s a conflict of interest. Likewise if you make a video on socialism and your sponsor is The Bill Gates Foundation lol
I think the conversational pivot is the hard part for me. Like I want to listen and take the person seriously and you suddenly realize they are talking about raycon or whatever. I just want a specific delineation between ad and video.
Sponsorblock is an amazing addon. A must have in conjunction with ublock Origin.
Seeing sponsorships in videos is as weird to me as seeing any ads on the internet now. Youtube is borderline unwatchable without it.
I've been using SmartTube on a chromecast for a long time, it's pretty great. It's got sponsor block and a clickbait thumbnail/title fixer (dearrowed? I think) built in too. Even set it up to replace the regular youtube button on the remote. Cannot stand watching that platform any other way.
I get that you gotta pay the bills but please just turn to the camera and say "I am going to read some ad copy now"
Some More News is pretty good at that. They have a special border and are very explicit about it too. Poor Cody chugging AG-1 for us to keep the lights on
Hasan's pitch for amazon every hour is obnoxious for this. How is it that non-lefty streamers have more qualms about giving amazon free PR than he does? Someone like AvoidingThePuddle pushes back against every stupid gimmick that is foist upon him.
It depends how it's done in my opinion. I used to watch Veritasium and then he did a video on self-driving cars. Which ended up just being a sponsorship for a specific company.
You probably know this, but in case not and for others interested, Tom Nicholas did a whole video about that specific incident and youtubers doing corporate propaganda in general. It was pretty good. I also unsubscribed from Veritasium around then, mostly because of their doubling down after the TN video rather than acknowledging it. A shame because Veritasium was pretty decent as far as that kind of channel goes.
I'm with OP though. The embedded "this video is sponsored by" ads, no matter how ironically or cleverly a youtuber inserts it in, still seriously rankles me. All the more when leftist "content creators" do it. It just feels all the more hypocritical.
Especially funny since Tom Nichols has shilled snake oil VPNs and other crap. He is kinda what this thread is about.
Yeah, the same with all The Deprogram boys too.
JT is quite bad with it, and even Hakim goes into long, tedious ads for VPNs. It's nearly inescapable and it sucks.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That's a pretty big ooof. I think when it gets to that point, you abandon ship.
IDK if Veritasium was always ass or if its a more recently thing, but it feels like a decent chunk of their recent stuff is either
reddit garbage or thinly veiled ads. That video about the speed of light in a copper wire lives in my headWhat's that one about? I'm not going back to his channel to watch it.
The basic premise is "if you have a lightbulb and a switch separated by a light-second long wire, how long does it take the lightbulb to light up?" The real answer is obviously one second, but if the lightbulb is near the switch, it will receive a very small amount of charge from the electromagnetic field of the wire as soon as you turn it on, so technically it'll receive like 1% of the power immediately and 99% once the electricity makes it down the wire.
We must implement Youtube Socialism with Boy Boy Characteristics
Hakim at least asked his audience (who said yes) and openly makes the minimum effort at segue
I appreciate the ytbers who mark the chapters either side of the ad so you can skip
It's very dystopian. Even moreso when it's a product because of our dystopia like VPNs or data purging services.
Critical support to Mr. Sausage for putting the ad reads during the "will it blow?" segments so I can skip the 2 worst parts of the video in one go.
I used to dislike the "will it blow?" until I saw a few glorious 5/5 Mark Ruffalo ones
But yeah
Near 100% of YouTube ads are straight up scams, being overpriced as fuck, data harvesting, or straight up harmful if it's Better Help. There's paying rent and then there's willingly participating in a scam and selling it to one's audience
Most of the ones I follow make the ads so stupid I doubt anyone ever actually buys them. They do everything short of BoyBoy just saying "never buy this shit".
If the advertisers were not supportive of the ads they would not keep advertising.
Eh, a lot of people in advertising just need to justify the existence of they're job so they'll often throw money at people so they can say they're doing something despite it not actually pushing much product. I doubt that many PhilTube fans have gotten Audible subscriptions or whatever, but Terry in marketing department loves showing the ads he hired her to make at the monthly staff meetings!
If you think people doing ads are pulling a fast one on ad agencies and marketing departments you are incredibly naive. Especially with internet marketing where the amount of subscribers directed to a service is partially measurable by discount codes. While some ad campaigns can be "Loss leaders" in a sense, there is a reason that advertisers pay for ads.
I'm not exactly an expert on advertising but I will point out companies often burn tons of cash on paying people to do dumb bullshit that doesn't actually help the firm purely out of PMC class solidarity. I doubt Bob the associate consultant on synergy is actually doing much for the company but hey he was in the same Frat as the CEOs cousin.
Also all these YTers seem to get a different Ad sponsor every two months so I doubt they're really making bank for them or they'd stick with it. If anything this makes BigMoney Salvia kinda sus cuz he's had like the same three sponsors for years m.
It's primed me to the preambles and lead ins, and immediately turns me off whatever I was watching
Yeah, I feel like I'm being deceived. Just tell me you're going to give me an ad and ask me to watch it so it'll help your views/algorithm.
Don't make up a story or pivot from the original topic.
Just tell me you're going to give me an ad and ask me to watch it so it'll help your views/algorithm.
The reason they don't do this is because it doesn't work. Nobody wants to watch an ad
I agree they could just no-effort it or something, I prefer the ones that are blunt, or a little surreal in a way that clearly tips off they don't want you to buy the schlock, but best is just not seeing them. Ultimately they've gotta make a living and that's the way youtubers do it, and having good metrics helps spread their message in addition to helping with sponsors, so idk. Just as much as they as a creator could simply not do embedded sponsorships or do them in a way you like, you could also just not watch content that does that, or use sponsorblock or smth. Either way its an individual solution
Honestly these days I tend to skip the first 2 minutes of any YouTube video, especially if there's an obvious mark where users have been skipping to
These days it feels like the first minute is just a very brief summary of the video thesis and then an extended ad read bit, with the actual video starting 2 to 3 minutes in
I might sound like an asshole here, but I feel like of you can't have a media career without hawking untested dietary supplements and scams maybe you shouldn't have a media career. Also a lot of this is giving very heavy vibes of the newscaster talking about the smooth taste of the cigarette brand sponsoring the news
