Do they think ppl will leave them on and listen to the whole thing? Do the people that run these ads have to pay extra?
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I suspect that video posters get paid based on ad watch time. If someone watches ten seconds of a two-hour ad, they still get paid for that ten seconds. Having really long ads can earn them a lot of money for people that have YouTube playing in the background with autoplay. A person might not realize right away that they are watching and ad, and might not skip until a couple minute in, or perhaps even much more.
Some of those “ads” aren’t ads—they’re actual videos from other creators/channels. They pay to have those videos run as ads to boost the views for the video/channel in the hopes it will drive growth, since the more views a video gets the more it is recommended in people’s feeds.
I never knew I needed youtube plus until I got 3 months free. When I tried going back to free I couldn’t stand it, now I pay
To catch people (like me) who fall asleep watching YouTube and those ads don’t get skipped.
They are especially terrible when they interrupt whatever my kid is watching. She’s too young to say anything, but a half hour music video doesn’t need to be playing in the middle of a video about ducks. YouTube kids shouldn’t have ads at all, it’s gross.
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