That’s one of the reasons I’m ok paying for premium. Creators get paid more.
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tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 months ago
Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.
Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RooPappy@kbin.social 10 months ago
Or you could pay for Nebula instead of the company causing the problem.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I could if the people I watched weren’t on YouTube.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 10 months ago
+1 for Nebula
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Depends on the ad and how much you use the premium…
I’ve watched so much they would’ve absolutely made more money showing me ads (based on my best guess for how much margin they should make on ads, which I think I can estimate pretty well, vs premium as I know less about costs etc. there) but I guess it’s not the case for everyone
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
which in turn makes them add more ads, which makes more people block them, which makes them add more ads… and the cycle continues.
Honestly if they stuck, and I mean actually stuck to "You know what, one ad, beginning of the video, unskippable, and the rest of the video (and content below, and everything) will be ad free until you start a new video - I’d do it. I’d honestly be okay with that. But it’s just so overbearing, everywhere is meant to draw your eye to ads, so no, I’ll do everything I can to get around them.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Or if they went back to their old advertisement model, remember when you used to get in line advertisements that played at the bottom of the video. I remember those they weren’t intrusive to the video content and you still saw them. It wasn’t obnoxious as hell and I would bd ok with that
Z3k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those inclined things drove me nuts. Might be a cultu thing in terms of how tv works.
I have seen recordings of American tv where things like that would advertise the next show so I guess people got stained to mote or less ignore them.
It’s not a thing that caught that caught on here. At least not while I still had a tv.