This last weekend I was watching a long Youtube video. It was around thirty minutes long. I got the normal ad at the start of the video, which I was fine with because I've come to accept them. Then about five minutes in, another ad popped up. But this one was thirty seconds long and I couldn't skip it. I was annoyed, but I waited and then continued to watch the video. But then around another five minutes, another ad came up and interrupted the video. This time I was really frustrated because it was the third ad. After it finished, I clicked on the video to see the length. Within the video time, there were certain sections that had yellow markers on them. I realized that these were ads that were scheduled to play when I hit a certain time. There were still a couple more in the video after I had already watched three. It was very annoying to see this and have to watch them all. I had tried to skip over them, but it still didn't let me watch further before watching the ad. The creator of the video I know has to make money, but there were so many ads in just one video. It made me not want to watch anymore of the channels' videos. I think everyone could agree that they wouldn't want to watch an excessive amount of ads. I don't see how this could be designed to help certain people. It was a nuisance. I can't support videos when they have so many ads because it takes away from the flow of a video when it gets stopped at intervals throughout the video.

I totally agree that these endless ads are annoying. Youtube just does it to increase their income. When they put more ads in their videos, that's more companies paying them to sponsor their products.
ReplyDeleteI as well fully agree with you on terms of the subject and think that ads are way to frequent now and reaching us in many of our often used media sites. I notice it a lot on instagram and snapchat now as well and it is disappointing to see that ads have this strong of a part in today's media.
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