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YouTube Increasing Ads Between Music Videos So More Users Pay for Upcoming Streaming Service
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Remember when music videos WERE ads?! They were to encourage you to buy the songs and see the artists live.
Now you get ads between the ads.
Presumably, people will eventually put up with the ads between the ads, and they’ll ‘have to’ add ads on top of the ads between the ads, and possibly during the ads that are music videos. Otherwise people might just use YouTube to watch videos. The very thought of it!
Now you get ads between the ads.
Presumably, people will eventually put up with the ads between the ads, and they’ll ‘have to’ add ads on top of the ads between the ads, and possibly during the ads that are music videos. Otherwise people might just use YouTube to watch videos. The very thought of it!
Yup. I have paid thousands of dollars in albums and song purchases through itunes. Usually though, these purchases are vetted by my listening to the album or songs on youtube a few times before I buy.
I'm getting really sick of all of this - our "new frontier" of digital entertainment is RAPIDLY becoming indiscernible from the old, "inferior" forms.
"Hey, man. I heard you liked ads so I put an ad before your ad so you can ad after you ad."
Lyor Cohen was kinda a dick when he was in the record industry. He's been this way for a while. He's just now with an company where he can be himself...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/
There ya go ladies and gentleman, fight the man! That has a feature to block ads on YouTube and whitelist channels you actually support.
*yes I use and love Firefox Quantum.
There ya go ladies and gentleman, fight the man! That has a feature to block ads on YouTube and whitelist channels you actually support.
*yes I use and love Firefox Quantum.
But all content must be free! Everyone has the right to everything, and anyone who wants payment is evil!
Look, I hate Google as much as the next guy, but whether it's Apple, Spotify or Google, it's not insane to pay for the music you're listening to. Even when we do pay, the artists are still getting screwed pretty badly -- and we're gonna begrudge them even that trickle of income?
I mean, I just paid $100 for a full year of all-you-can-stream, ad-free Spotify. That's access to just millions of tracks, and good ones at that -- for the cost of what, like 5 albums? 10 albums maybe?
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Pfft, it's totally a free music service. I use YouTube for music all day at work. I just block the ads.
And yet you don’t understand why the service that is paying to provide you this music, and the creators of the music might want some compensation, in the form of either a direct payment (YT Red), or ad revenue?
Watching CNN live streams (copyright no-no), has ads every 4-5 minutes!
Every time an ad starts, I would hit the 'back' button & restart the stream again. I assume YT ads have laser-narrowed focused viewer watch time analysis by the second. I'm not giving YouTube users & their advertisers the satisfaction of even a full 15 seconds of ad watch time. There was competinlg bootleg CNN live streams going & others didn't have ads every 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, I watch a HELL of a lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. I assume Shout Factory has rights to stream (no bootleg), yet never interrupted. Occasionally just before.
Every time an ad starts, I would hit the 'back' button & restart the stream again. I assume YT ads have laser-narrowed focused viewer watch time analysis by the second. I'm not giving YouTube users & their advertisers the satisfaction of even a full 15 seconds of ad watch time. There was competinlg bootleg CNN live streams going & others didn't have ads every 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, I watch a HELL of a lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. I assume Shout Factory has rights to stream (no bootleg), yet never interrupted. Occasionally just before.
Yep, artists always put up their music videos for free. Also, the music video usually has some sound effects or something that make it not like the regular song.
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No, I just don't care. If they change the laws, I'll obey, but they haven't. Also, someone is getting screwed either way because the ads aren't actually producing any wealth, especially when I ignore them.
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I liked Quantum at first, but turns out it's really darn slow. I tried using it for Facebook Messenger, and it was lagging to the point where I quit using it.
Though if you “screwed” the ad companies long enough, wouldn’t this be likely to change? The only people you’re screwing are the content creators.
I paid for Play Music and YouTube Red many times but I always cancel. First Play Music does not have the best sound quality and YouTube is just plane boring for me. YouTube Red originals are terrible no licensed content.
Really it might be me but I look for product reviews and all I find is un-boxing videos, top 5 or fake videos that's just horrible music with no actual review and these are from well know channels not someones channel with only 5 subscribers.
Some videos that should be safe have profanity when not necessary and the useless Restricted mode won't block those but blocks videos where they don't even say the word "hell".
So I always cancel and go back to Apple Music. For one saying that is uses mobile data you can download music on the go I do this when I hit areas that have slow or poor coverage.
When I do watch YouTube I use uBlock in Firefox and Chrome. but lately it is just boring.
Really it might be me but I look for product reviews and all I find is un-boxing videos, top 5 or fake videos that's just horrible music with no actual review and these are from well know channels not someones channel with only 5 subscribers.
Some videos that should be safe have profanity when not necessary and the useless Restricted mode won't block those but blocks videos where they don't even say the word "hell".
So I always cancel and go back to Apple Music. For one saying that is uses mobile data you can download music on the go I do this when I hit areas that have slow or poor coverage.
When I do watch YouTube I use uBlock in Firefox and Chrome. but lately it is just boring.
Sites hosting ads get paid less when people don't click ads, or they do click them but don't engage. As it is, advertising already brings in so little revenue that it's meaningless unless you're a big artist, in which case your big income is through other means anyway. Or if you're Google.
Paying for music is a legit way fund it. But ads are just a zero sum game between competing products or, nowadays, ideologies. I'm not going to pretend that I'm doing productive work by watching an ad; really I'm just torturing myself slightly.
I love it, works great for me. I don’t use social media so I guess I don’t have that problem. It’s faster than Safari, and to me safer than all seeing Google.
Oh ok, so I assume you probably already own and paid for all the sings you listen to, but choose to stream them on YouTube because it’s a bit more convenient?
Nope, why pay when everyone else gets it for free and legally? Sure, I'd like it if all free music were gone and everyone had to pay again, but that's not something I control. Also, paying isn't convenient. I still pay for things I really like as a donation.
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It kinda pisses me off that YouTube makes advertising revenue off of stolen content. Plenty of other sites do that too, but they get flagged as piracy sites and get taken down.
I actually think the managers view YouTube content as ads for other ads ad infinitum.
Who even watches music videos these days? People "watch" them because of the music - or in other words: Let the music play in the background.
