NOTE: Tom Scott did end up including a Nord sponsorship a couple days after publishing this video. However, he advertised it in a much more honest way than most do. Still not a huge fan of it, but he actually seems to have a legitimate use case for it, so that's better than many.
To be honest, with tier D there is a huge problem. Which is the fact that you very likely not calculated that some sporsorships can be very restrictive in how much you can deviate from the script you get from them if you can at all. So not everything is "lazily done sponsorship".
also there was a new feature on youtube called "skip ahead" which allows you to tap a button and it takes you to after the part that's commonly skipped over. And guess what those commonly skipped parts are. You guessed right SPONSORS.
I hate sponsors on serious videos like True Crime, Abuse, etc. Hearing about how something horrible happened to a person then immediately switching to "this video was sponsored by" just pisses me off honestly. It feels like they couldn't care less about the victim(s) and only making a video for money and views.
I don't feel bad they take shitty sponsors true crime content tends to get easily demonitized and patreon isn't guaranteed money and news channel monetize much worse so it's they shouldn't feel bad whatever anyone say otherwise
@@Uohhhh777If you want to make money off of videos, you shouldn't make people's actual deaths/traumatic experiences the subject of your content. That's just disrespectful. Find a different avenue instead of milking actual murders and assaults for cash.
@Ossian_Mik-bb3hv I disagree. Using a real person's death/trauma for profit it wrong, no matter how you do it. The goal should be to celebrate the life of the victim, or even raise money for the family of the victim, not profit off of it. They made the choice to make the video. It doesn't matter how hard they worked; they should show some respect by choosing not to monetize it unless all profits are going to the victims' families. Otherwise, just make a video about something else if money is the end goal. True crime should be a non-profit topic.
There's a few phrases that make me unconsciously reach for the skipper like "But first before we-" or "I'd like to take a moment to-" *skip skip skip skip skip*
for me its mainly annoying because i got premium to get rid of ads, sort of upsetting that it now you basically get ads premium or not, this ontop of youtube now blocking ad block is basically either 2-5 ads plus the sponsor or premium and the sponsor which is mostly 2-5 minutes long so the timing is sad
thats why i clicked on this video, because there was a sponsor tag on sponsor block. but it turned out it was just a 5 second intermission and not a sponsor
Maybe it could be like those Spotify ads: "Do you find the phrase "this video is sponsored by" annoying? Well, you're in luck, because this video is sponsored by sponsor block!"
I shouldve installed a long time ago but i thought it was not possible to skip because sponsors are embedded into the actual video file. I only started using it last month
One of the things i hate about sponsors are that most of them straight up interupt the video with something like "but you know what isnt as bad as that? This video was sponsored by (sponsor)."
There's only 2 TH-camrs whose sponsored segments I watch: Internet Historian and NationSquid Cause they're actually funny and usually pretty tongue-in-cheek. NationSquid usually has his themed like a retro TV ad, and Internet Historian just kinda makes it a shitpost
One time I saw a TH-cam channel that talked about predatory mobile game tactics while having the video sponsored by raid shadow legends. It was a stroke of genius in my opinion, he basically got paid to make Raid look stupid by raid themselves.
I 100% agree. As if having a million ads intruding every video I watch wasn't frustrating enough, nearly every single TH-camr I enjoy is shoving sponsorship commercials in your face. This website becomes more intolerable with each passing year, and if this get worse and worse, then I'll probably just quit TH-cam watching altogether. Ads are what keeps TH-cam free to use, but the quantity and anti-consumer experience is getting so bad, that in a few years some people will say " ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!" And quit.
@@AnActualBean9034 “Squarespace, the sponsor of today’s video. From websites and online stores, to marketing tools and analytics, squarespace is the all in one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business”
Who doesn’t hate sponsorships? Best thing channels who have sponsors on videos can do is add timestamps so you can skip over the sponsorship and get to the actual part of the video that you wanted to watch.
In Mental Checkpoint's video titled "The Evil Secrets Behind Free to Play Games", they go over the tactics that mobile games use in order to get more players and more money. That same video is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends. ;)
People complain a lot about YT ads but very few talk about sponsorships. I'm getting mad hearing same fucking thing over and over again and sponsorships sometimes feel like 30% of video. Not only that majority of them are just misleading or straight up scams, those VPNs claim how safe they are while ordinary https website have safety features they have, established titles is scam, air up claims they're "eco friendly" while at the same time sending 50 tiny plastic packages
The problem I’ve heard is that a lot of sponsors will tell the creators were to put the ad segment, and a lot of them want them near the start of the video
Sometimes it shows up on videos that have no paid content. There's an artist I watch sometimes who just... uses the art products they regularly use in their other videos. They don't tell you to buy it or even mention it, sometimes don't even show the brand. It's so weird.
I absolutely hate when youtubers have a sponsorship segment in the middle of a video which is about a heavy subject. I also hate it when a sponsorship segment isn’t its own chapter so it’s much easier to skip. Like what if a segment is 2 and half minutes long but you don’t know that due to the fact that the segment is in the same chapter as, let’s say, the intro
A while back I came across a channel with a young couple literally begging for Patreon and membership donations thoughout their videos, so they could continue to swan around the Caribbean in their yacht. And then another one almost exactly the same, except theirs was a luxury cataraman and they were busy sailing worldwide. The sense of entitlement was just staggering.
Agree with you on that. Most of these TH-camrs are like that. The various lifestyle vids and pickers flippers resellers and the technology videos, new, old computers etcetera. They want you patreon them.
Bear in mind he begs for Patreons on every video, Adrian Black gets so many channel donations of retro tech, some of which is very valuable nowadays. The icing on the cake is he usually spends the entire video telling you how sh!t that computer he got for free is.
I’ve had the same opinion for awhile and I’m glad someone said something about it. I especially get annoyed when the sponsor isn’t even related to the channel, or doesn’t fit the demographic who watches the channel (like most of the manscaped ads)
Sponsorships is like ads like this. You got TH-cam premium and no ads bothering you anymore until sponsorships comes in like ads that you can’t ski- Wait, the jump ahead came here to save the day :9
i completely agree, while i don't have a problem with sponsors, they are incredibly intrusive and basically makes youtube feel like TV and the videos i'm watching don't feel made by an individual or someone who just likes making stuff, they feel like they're made by a company and many times censored with terms like "unalived" or some other ridiculous new word, that it doesn't feel genuine
Sponsorships have gotten so out of hand. Tbh they've gotten so out of hand that I literally just fast forward through them. Very really do I see people do sponsorships well. People like Internet Comment Etiquette make a skit out of it and Pyrocynical's satire is genuinely entertaining. Also thank you for giving me Vietnam Flashbacks to Cody's Favorite Game.
I think dead meat is the perfect example of sponsorships done well They are always in the beginning He clearly uses them He writes genuinely hilarious skits correlating to the movie he’s covering He has a patreon but doesn’t plug it at all. All he does is do patreon shoutouts at the end as an insensitive He has merch but never plugs it, only wears it in a video if there’s no shirts for the movie he’s covering
When I was paying for youtube premium I really hated also seeing sponsorship segments. I've seen so many scam ads I am now grateful for the ads that contain actual products.
In my personal opinion I think that mid video sponsorships and TH-cam videos intended to be educational really don't mix at all. sure some like Oversimplified try to do segways into the sponsorship, but the thing is the video is supposed to be educational, and not about buying products.
A man died from cancer in 2019. It was so sad but then when he died his last words were: But after i die here is a quick small sponsor of our video: NORD VPN
Fun fact (that I learned from countless emails I ignored), most sponsored segments are 1 minute and 30 seconds, if you skip that far ahead you’ll usually get out of it instantly
Not watched yet but my stance on it is that, why would they choose TH-camrs to promote directly instead of using the BUILT IN ADS. It's almost like they're mostly scams or just really meh products huh? If you can't sell it without having some guy with brown hair and glasses that talks about video games say "Golly gee, I love this product," Why make the product in the first place???
I think if you have to have a sponsorship segment they should be saved until the end of the video that way the people that are interested can stick around and listen and they don't interrupt when people just want to watch the video and if you say "too many people will click off the video" remember I can just skip the sponsorship segment so people who aren't interested won't sit through it regardless
There’s a channel called Docudubery that did a joke video about King Tut’s tomb not being discovered because he used NordVPN. The video wasn’t originally sponsored but Nord actually ended up approaching him afterwards and paying him to add a link as a pinned comment. Just thought that was interesting.
One of the worst cases I’ve seen recently is Supermariologan. If it isn’t a full video dedicated only to a sponsor, he now has a random character interrupt important scenes right in the middle of the video to do 2-3 MINUTE long ads for terrible games like dragon city. There’s so much wrong with it, the most obvious one being that it’s a show with a story, and all the story is cut for a sponsor segment.
The only tolerable sponsorships are self-promotion (LockPickingLawyer plugs his store where you can get the lockpicks he uses), videos primarily about using the sponsored product, and uninterrupted videos *secondarily* about using the sponsored product (e.g., TH-camrs using sponsored gear while making the video, and all you see is the logo on that gear).
The first F tier(I've not finished the video idk if there's more) is actually my favourite because it's so quick to tell when it stops making it easier and quicker to skip
I watch MrBallen but he always sponsors BetterHelp, I’d rather him take sponsors that have a smooth transition and always has seagull lung in it. Very upsetting. 😔😔
One of the main reason I hate sponsors is that a good majority are products that are either scams or very low quality. Any company that puts 90% of its resources into marketing is almost certainly not going to have a good product. Like why would I use a VPN service that has had multiple data breaches (they dont tell you this in the ad btw) or a set of overpriced earbuds that are basically dollar store quality? Not even talking about the crappy mobile games that are literally there just to take your money. Growing up in the early 2000s, not clicking on ads was the easiest way to avoid viruses and so ads are just engrained in my head as BAD, so to see them again as sponsored products and learning that most of them are scams only reinforces that feeling.
I can't get mad at most people for taking sponsorships, we all have to eat at the end of the day. But there are many sponsors that have proven themselves to be scams or low quality products and its hard not to side eye creators when theyre still making ads for them. Ill always skip them, no matter the product being sold. If i need it, ill seek it out on my own and search for a promo code
Tbh the only person who i enjoy sponsorships from is tomska cause he makes all his sponsorships in small little skits that are pretty fun to watch, it doesn't feel like he's shoving it down your throat as much
In NationSquid's video about Microsoft Explorer, it is sponsored by BOMBAS, a store that sells shoes, undergarments and more. That sponsored segment I believe is a parody of Blue's clues
You know what I hate about them? As someone who's had to edit sponsorship ads for youtubers, the sponsors almost NEVER give all the materials from the beginning. They literally seem to enjoy wasting an editors time and never end up satisfied with the ad till they've literally made you waste at least a few 1000 brain cells on these ads.
Good things shouldn’t and doesn’t need to be advertised. Has anyone ever tried drugs and had a great time? And was it ever advertised? NO! If your product is good the people will know. If it has to be advertised it’s probably shit. I love your video btw.
most products would be entirely unknown without advertisements. Excessive advertising usually _does_ mean product is shit, but that's because most of the budget is clearly going towards advertising, some advertising is basically required for most things
I'm always getting emails from companies (probably scams) asking me to promote their products. I'm always tempted to send a "flipping the bird" emoji back, but I just delete the emails. After the Established Titles scandal, I'm going to avoid selling out for a lot longer. I'm sticking to my Mercari.
His content also took a nose dive in writing. (The only thing I can consistently praise is the animation, otherwise it’s terrible) In fact. I’d like to coin a name, “Shallow series” a series with bad writing that has quality everywhere else. (Good visuals, good effects, good music.) Usually isn’t enjoyable without those moments of quality to shine.
I don’t mind too much of sponsorships. Nothing against them in general. But I’d usually would just skip them entirely. Though if any content creators would do any type of sponsor, I think it works best to have them placed at the end of the video. Schaffrillas Productions and Saberapark are examples who do this.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I think they were also guilty of putting it in the middle of their videos at some point. Edit: (Actually Schaffrillas has put it in the middle of his video before.)
i really love your double standards there, sponsors are essentially worse version of ads and it gets especially annoying for all the premium users out there. Not to mention if you're the type who likes to listen to videos they'll get annoying AF quickly, trust me
I'm on a 50/50 thing with TH-camr merch. Like it depends, if it's very creative or has good art and stuff. I just don't buy it if it costs too much for me or it's not something I would use/wear all the time. I also don't like it when it's limited time only or something. There are TH-camrs who make merch that isn't straight up based on them, like Slime Story by Slimecicle, that I think are pretty neat. Honestly, I think TH-camr merch are just an extreme case of 'your mileage may vary'. You may like it, you may not, just don't let your kid wear it to school unless you know they aren't gonna get bullied for it.
I understand the need for sponsorships so I tend not to complain when I see them, but yeah. I notice more and more channels i watch interrupting the flow of the video for a sponsorship plug. Some TH-camrs do it right when they put it at the beginning of the video before the discussion begins or find alternative ways to make extra money like a Patreon or other forms of members-only content.
If a youtuber has hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in their bank account then there is really no need for those stupid sponsorships. They should be reserved only for less wealthy youtubers, not millionaires.
13:03 My bf played and he was happy to see all these sponsorships. They pissed me off. He played raid for 5 years, nonstop. But then, he realised that “oh actually yeah, you were right, this game is clearly piece of crap” In recent years Plarium (developers) has become more greedy. Especially with mech arena. They put lots of microtransactions and ads. Also with raid, so my bf finally abandoned it
I often don’t really have a problem with sponsorships, for the most part. They’re easy to skip (especially now with the new ‘jump ahead’ feature, and I understand that creators need to make money. My only real problems are when they sell out to things that people recognize as scam sites or are predatory in nature, without doing the due diligence that would prevent the sponsorships from happening in the first place.
Internet Comment Etiquette's Nobbleberry ones were awesome. The amount of effort Erik put to make the sponsored segment entertaining so you'd want to watch it even if you don't care about the product was amazing!
I will say, if you haven't seen Bruva Alfabusa's *Hunter the Parenting*, the few sponsorships in there are not only non-intrusive, but they are also an absolutely hilarious bit on their own.
Production value of youtube videos is much higher today than a few years ago. These sponsored segments allow creators to make money and put much more effort and even money into videos.
NOTE: Tom Scott did end up including a Nord sponsorship a couple days after publishing this video. However, he advertised it in a much more honest way than most do. Still not a huge fan of it, but he actually seems to have a legitimate use case for it, so that's better than many.
I’m just sad it didn’t mention gay pirate assassins.
@MB lol as long as TH-cam keeps being TH-cam and demonetizing stuff that ain’t gonna happen.
@MB There are browser extensions that automatically skip sponsored segments in TH-cam videos. If you care that much I would take a peak into that.
To be honest, with tier D there is a huge problem. Which is the fact that you very likely not calculated that some sporsorships can be very restrictive in how much you can deviate from the script you get from them if you can at all. So not everything is "lazily done sponsorship".
He did "Fill in the Blank"VPN
Shoutout to TH-camrs who make the sponsor a chapter so I could skip it easier
Shout-out Sean Ranklin
Sadly only like 10% of TH-camrs do this.
Caddicarus too. I notice he integrates his sense of humor into his sponsorships
Immediately take away said shoutout if they're dishonest
Even better, at the end like they used to.
its so funny how the most replayed part of a youtube video with a sponsor is always RIGHT AFTER the sponsorship segment lmao
That is how I know where to skip to.
also there was a new feature on youtube called "skip ahead" which allows you to tap a button and it takes you to after the part that's commonly skipped over. And guess what those commonly skipped parts are. You guessed right SPONSORS.
It doesn't help that quite a few of the common sponsorships are being exposed as blatant scams, poorly designed products, or money hungry games.
Raid shadow legends was advertised as ultimate game. I bet candy crush has more players than RSL
Homeaglow, scam cleaning service, blatantly misrepresented to scam the viewer.
There are multiple better wireless ear buds than raycons for a quarter of the price btw.
Betterhelp...
Established titles
I hate sponsors on serious videos like True Crime, Abuse, etc. Hearing about how something horrible happened to a person then immediately switching to "this video was sponsored by" just pisses me off honestly. It feels like they couldn't care less about the victim(s) and only making a video for money and views.
_"This video is sponsored by..."_ NO! 🫵
I don't feel bad they take shitty sponsors true crime content tends to get easily demonitized and patreon isn't guaranteed money and news channel monetize much worse so it's they shouldn't feel bad whatever anyone say otherwise
A saints row rise and fall video was sponsored by opera gx.
@@Uohhhh777If you want to make money off of videos, you shouldn't make people's actual deaths/traumatic experiences the subject of your content.
That's just disrespectful. Find a different avenue instead of milking actual murders and assaults for cash.
@Ossian_Mik-bb3hv I disagree. Using a real person's death/trauma for profit it wrong, no matter how you do it. The goal should be to celebrate the life of the victim, or even raise money for the family of the victim, not profit off of it. They made the choice to make the video. It doesn't matter how hard they worked; they should show some respect by choosing not to monetize it unless all profits are going to the victims' families. Otherwise, just make a video about something else if money is the end goal. True crime should be a non-profit topic.
There's a few phrases that make me unconsciously reach for the skipper like "But first before we-" or "I'd like to take a moment to-"
*skip skip skip skip skip*
for me its mainly annoying because i got premium to get rid of ads, sort of upsetting that it now you basically get ads premium or not, this ontop of youtube now blocking ad block is basically either 2-5 ads plus the sponsor or premium and the sponsor which is mostly 2-5 minutes long so the timing is sad
Yes and usually in 10 minute long ones.... So TH-cam Premium + sponsor block (this unfortunately not being available in mobile :(
IT IS OFFICIALLY NOT WITHIN TH-cam'S LEGAL RIGHTS TO IMPLEMENT ANTI-AD BLOCKER POLICIES ON THEIR PLATFORM.
@@rayganparksmitchell I mean they are in deep shit in Europe cause of it
@@eLokiEahTH-cam Revanced
@@rayganparksmitchellIf youtube wants money then they kind of have to other wise, whats the point of premium?
A sponsored segment for Sponsor Block would be hilariously ironic.
only sponsor i’d watch
@@joeyplays317 just no
thats why i clicked on this video, because there was a sponsor tag on sponsor block.
but it turned out it was just a 5 second intermission and not a sponsor
Maybe it could be like those Spotify ads: "Do you find the phrase "this video is sponsored by" annoying? Well, you're in luck, because this video is sponsored by sponsor block!"
I shouldve installed a long time ago but i thought it was not possible to skip because sponsors are embedded into the actual video file. I only started using it last month
One of the things i hate about sponsors are that most of them straight up interupt the video with something like "but you know what isnt as bad as that? This video was sponsored by (sponsor)."
The amount of times a paragraph or point they’re talking about gets randomly interrupted with a shitty line like that is unbearable
Dont forget when the sponsored segment lasts like two minutes
And some people give praise for that, saying something like "The effortless transition makes the sponsorship so much better" really pisses me off too.
Raid shadow legends
There's only 2 TH-camrs whose sponsored segments I watch: Internet Historian and NationSquid
Cause they're actually funny and usually pretty tongue-in-cheek. NationSquid usually has his themed like a retro TV ad, and Internet Historian just kinda makes it a shitpost
This video is sponsored b-
Me: >>>>>>>>>>
Hahahaha yup. Skip skip. Then I get a 30 second unskippable ad from YT. 😭😭😭😭😭😠
@@FransceneJK98then i broke my ankle then i get a heart attack before i calked 911 then i get 1 week pain after surviving.
Same 😂😂
One time I saw a TH-cam channel that talked about predatory mobile game tactics while having the video sponsored by raid shadow legends. It was a stroke of genius in my opinion, he basically got paid to make Raid look stupid by raid themselves.
i think i also saw something like that
Mental checkpoint?
We need to find this
But I don’t think it will be easy, as he was probably assassinated the second they realized
I 100% agree. As if having a million ads intruding every video I watch wasn't frustrating enough, nearly every single TH-camr I enjoy is shoving sponsorship commercials in your face. This website becomes more intolerable with each passing year, and if this get worse and worse, then I'll probably just quit TH-cam watching altogether. Ads are what keeps TH-cam free to use, but the quantity and anti-consumer experience is getting so bad, that in a few years some people will say " ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!" And quit.
Lmao! Get premium or ad block pleb!
It’s really sad when a TH-camr starts having a sponsor in EVERY SINGLE VIDEO
yes especially your favorite TH-camrs, it makes you see them as the sellouts they are
And the same one
schaffrillas productions is in love with sponsors, especially square space
"funding for schaffrillas provided by"
@@AnActualBean9034 “Squarespace, the sponsor of today’s video. From websites and online stores, to marketing tools and analytics, squarespace is the all in one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business”
@@AnActualBean9034 the first time I saw that it was a very welcome nostalgic moment
Sonic TH-camrs: Am I a joke to you?
SquareSpace has nothing on CircleGround
Who doesn’t hate sponsorships? Best thing channels who have sponsors on videos can do is add timestamps so you can skip over the sponsorship and get to the actual part of the video that you wanted to watch.
How they can win money then?!
Agreed, they know we don’t give a crap about them
@@onedude1389by getting a job.
@@onedude1389its simple!
they don't
@@marnic0004 this, even being a streamer is more of a job than youtube can ever be
demolished those sponsors so hard they were sent to the spirit realm
@@stickyinkforthen6418 what
@@stickyinkforthen6418 i don’t know who you are
@@stickyinkforthen6418 yes because you are acting like you know me
@@stickyinkforthen6418 i feel like you’re a radbat fan
@@stickyinkforthen6418 omg okay just stop talking to me
In Mental Checkpoint's video titled "The Evil Secrets Behind Free to Play Games", they go over the tactics that mobile games use in order to get more players and more money. That same video is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends. ;)
Next video might be sponsored by Disney, Plarium, Air Bud, Spin Master, Tencent and the MAGA Mafia and the CPB
People complain a lot about YT ads but very few talk about sponsorships. I'm getting mad hearing same fucking thing over and over again and sponsorships sometimes feel like 30% of video. Not only that majority of them are just misleading or straight up scams, those VPNs claim how safe they are while ordinary https website have safety features they have, established titles is scam, air up claims they're "eco friendly" while at the same time sending 50 tiny plastic packages
ISTG if I hear one more YT video talking about the Raid Shadow Legends Sponsor, I'm genuinely gonna lose it
funny thing is, raid isn't even an original game
the gameplay was stolen from a weird "rpg" that i played a few times on my old ipad back in 2014
I haven’t seen a raid sponser in almost a year, thank god
Some sonic music be like youtuber sponsored raid shadow legends
worse with the opera gx sponsors
Like are TH-camrs in love with that game?
Hell tier is for the true crime creators who incorporate their sponsored segment in the most disrespectful way ever
god, i love sponsorblock
Its a ripoff. I pay for premium and i dont want to see ads. Now i pay and have to watch creators talk about some crappy game or whatever. Annoying AF
Tbh they need to save the sponsorship at the end
YES!! 🙏
GamerfromMars was the only person I remember practicing this, I wish it was more commonly done
The problem I’ve heard is that a lot of sponsors will tell the creators were to put the ad segment, and a lot of them want them near the start of the video
I also hate that stupid "includes paid promotion" tab
That’s my biggest problem too.
Sometimes it shows up on videos that have no paid content. There's an artist I watch sometimes who just... uses the art products they regularly use in their other videos. They don't tell you to buy it or even mention it, sometimes don't even show the brand. It's so weird.
I absolutely hate when youtubers have a sponsorship segment in the middle of a video which is about a heavy subject.
I also hate it when a sponsorship segment isn’t its own chapter so it’s much easier to skip. Like what if a segment is 2 and half minutes long but you don’t know that due to the fact that the segment is in the same chapter as, let’s say, the intro
they usually end the intro segment at the same time as the sponsor, i think
At this point we need to ban ads altogether. This also includes to trailers, since its just glorifed ads anyway.
A while back I came across a channel with a young couple literally begging for Patreon and membership donations thoughout their videos, so they could continue to swan around the Caribbean in their yacht. And then another one almost exactly the same, except theirs was a luxury cataraman and they were busy sailing worldwide. The sense of entitlement was just staggering.
Agree with you on that. Most of these TH-camrs are like that. The various lifestyle vids and pickers flippers resellers and the technology videos, new, old computers etcetera. They want you patreon them.
Bear in mind he begs for Patreons on every video, Adrian Black gets so many channel donations of retro tech, some of which is very valuable nowadays. The icing on the cake is he usually spends the entire video telling you how sh!t that computer he got for free is.
I’ve had the same opinion for awhile and I’m glad someone said something about it. I especially get annoyed when the sponsor isn’t even related to the channel, or doesn’t fit the demographic who watches the channel (like most of the manscaped ads)
Sponsorships is like ads like this. You got TH-cam premium and no ads bothering you anymore until sponsorships comes in like ads that you can’t ski-
Wait, the jump ahead came here to save the day :9
This makes YT premium a fucking scam.
But some cool youtube modifications skip both.
If I'm watching a video, the last thing I wanna do is skip around.
at least sponsors are more skippable than ads
@HarambaeXelonmuskfanstrue
i completely agree, while i don't have a problem with sponsors, they are incredibly intrusive and basically makes youtube feel like TV and the videos i'm watching don't feel made by an individual or someone who just likes making stuff, they feel like they're made by a company and many times censored with terms like "unalived" or some other ridiculous new word, that it doesn't feel genuine
Sponsorships have gotten so out of hand. Tbh they've gotten so out of hand that I literally just fast forward through them. Very really do I see people do sponsorships well. People like Internet Comment Etiquette make a skit out of it and Pyrocynical's satire is genuinely entertaining.
Also thank you for giving me Vietnam Flashbacks to Cody's Favorite Game.
I think dead meat is the perfect example of sponsorships done well
They are always in the beginning
He clearly uses them
He writes genuinely hilarious skits correlating to the movie he’s covering
He has a patreon but doesn’t plug it at all. All he does is do patreon shoutouts at the end as an insensitive
He has merch but never plugs it, only wears it in a video if there’s no shirts for the movie he’s covering
When I was paying for youtube premium I really hated also seeing sponsorship segments. I've seen so many scam ads I am now grateful for the ads that contain actual products.
Be honest when was the last time we have watched a sponsorship
2 minutes ago
@@grizzlydino i mean watch all the way through without fast forwarding
I don’t anymore and I’m not sorry about it
since TomSka videos
In my personal opinion I think that mid video sponsorships and TH-cam videos intended to be educational really don't mix at all. sure some like Oversimplified try to do segways into the sponsorship, but the thing is the video is supposed to be educational, and not about buying products.
Oh thank you I thought I was the only one who hate TH-cam sponsorships
A man died from cancer in 2019. It was so sad but then when he died his last words were: But after i die here is a quick small sponsor of our video: NORD VPN
20 people who use sponsorship disliked your video according to my return dislikes
Fun fact (that I learned from countless emails I ignored), most sponsored segments are 1 minute and 30 seconds, if you skip that far ahead you’ll usually get out of it instantly
Not watched yet but my stance on it is that, why would they choose TH-camrs to promote directly instead of using the BUILT IN ADS. It's almost like they're mostly scams or just really meh products huh? If you can't sell it without having some guy with brown hair and glasses that talks about video games say "Golly gee, I love this product," Why make the product in the first place???
I too hate obnoxious sponsorships that interrupt the video
I think if you have to have a sponsorship segment they should be saved until the end of the video that way the people that are interested can stick around and listen and they don't interrupt when people just want to watch the video and if you say "too many people will click off the video" remember I can just skip the sponsorship segment so people who aren't interested won't sit through it regardless
There’s a channel called Docudubery that did a joke video about King Tut’s tomb not being discovered because he used NordVPN. The video wasn’t originally sponsored but Nord actually ended up approaching him afterwards and paying him to add a link as a pinned comment. Just thought that was interesting.
One of the worst cases I’ve seen recently is Supermariologan.
If it isn’t a full video dedicated only to a sponsor, he now has a random character interrupt important scenes right in the middle of the video to do 2-3 MINUTE long ads for terrible games like dragon city.
There’s so much wrong with it, the most obvious one being that it’s a show with a story, and all the story is cut for a sponsor segment.
Dude, that's on you for watching a grown man move a bunch of dolls around
@@user-a0d9w0ec9wiej yea, it’s on me for having an opinion and a taste in content. Deal with it mate
There is this youtuber called shane McGillicuddy and he has a series called just another paid promotion where he reviews different sponsorships
I’ve watched some of the videos, he does a good job explaining it all.
I can't wait for Dabhdude to get sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends and Lord's Moblie (get it 8:04)
Nothing beats the youtube experience of getting bombarded with ads every 3 minutes just to get bombarded with a vpn sponsor
The only tolerable sponsorships are self-promotion (LockPickingLawyer plugs his store where you can get the lockpicks he uses), videos primarily about using the sponsored product, and uninterrupted videos *secondarily* about using the sponsored product (e.g., TH-camrs using sponsored gear while making the video, and all you see is the logo on that gear).
TomSka probably handles sponsors the best because he actually makes comedy skits for them and a lot of them are surprisingly creative.
This reminds me of when Team Four Star had a fighting sequence when they did a RayCon Earbuds Sponsorship.
"*sigh* I'm gonna miss TomSka.."
"Not me! It was bumpy, we were always late, and the running costs were outrageous!"
"From now on, I'M driving!"
I hate those the most
and he puts them after the video, with only a short sponsor screen beforehand.
still is a shitty ad at the end of the day
and thats why i use sponsorblock
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The first F tier(I've not finished the video idk if there's more) is actually my favourite because it's so quick to tell when it stops making it easier and quicker to skip
Thank you Vanced and ReVanced for automatically skipping sponsors for me.
It is also very annoying when the sponsor is betterhelp so the youtuber is basically shilling out for a company that sells clients medical information
I watch MrBallen but he always sponsors BetterHelp, I’d rather him take sponsors that have a smooth transition and always has seagull lung in it. Very upsetting. 😔😔
I hate when i go onto a video I see the includes paid promotion at the top right
One of the main reason I hate sponsors is that a good majority are products that are either scams or very low quality. Any company that puts 90% of its resources into marketing is almost certainly not going to have a good product. Like why would I use a VPN service that has had multiple data breaches (they dont tell you this in the ad btw) or a set of overpriced earbuds that are basically dollar store quality? Not even talking about the crappy mobile games that are literally there just to take your money.
Growing up in the early 2000s, not clicking on ads was the easiest way to avoid viruses and so ads are just engrained in my head as BAD, so to see them again as sponsored products and learning that most of them are scams only reinforces that feeling.
I use sponsorblock now...
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I can't get mad at most people for taking sponsorships, we all have to eat at the end of the day. But there are many sponsors that have proven themselves to be scams or low quality products and its hard not to side eye creators when theyre still making ads for them. Ill always skip them, no matter the product being sold. If i need it, ill seek it out on my own and search for a promo code
TH-cam Premium subscribers should have the option of skipping sponsorship segments in videos.
Tbh the only person who i enjoy sponsorships from is tomska cause he makes all his sponsorships in small little skits that are pretty fun to watch, it doesn't feel like he's shoving it down your throat as much
Sponsors are so formulaic that I know when one is coming before they even say the words.
In NationSquid's video about Microsoft Explorer, it is sponsored by BOMBAS, a store that sells shoes, undergarments and more.
That sponsored segment I believe is a parody of Blue's clues
You know what I hate about them? As someone who's had to edit sponsorship ads for youtubers, the sponsors almost NEVER give all the materials from the beginning. They literally seem to enjoy wasting an editors time and never end up satisfied with the ad till they've literally made you waste at least a few 1000 brain cells on these ads.
8:04 AKA SMG4's The Resurrection being an advertisement for Skyforge.
One creator where i dont mind their sponsor segments is Caddicarus, he at leasts tries to make it a skit and integrate it into his videos.
Good things shouldn’t and doesn’t need to be advertised. Has anyone ever tried drugs and had a great time? And was it ever advertised? NO!
If your product is good the people will know. If it has to be advertised it’s probably shit. I love your video btw.
most products would be entirely unknown without advertisements. Excessive advertising usually _does_ mean product is shit, but that's because most of the budget is clearly going towards advertising, some advertising is basically required for most things
I'm always getting emails from companies (probably scams) asking me to promote their products. I'm always tempted to send a "flipping the bird" emoji back, but I just delete the emails.
After the Established Titles scandal, I'm going to avoid selling out for a lot longer. I'm sticking to my Mercari.
Why don’t you? 😂😂
To qoute Uncle Al. Instead of making a long rant about the ad, just hit L on the keyboard a few times to skip the ad.
I get sick of SMG4 selling out
He turned his entire channel into an ad for his anime and merch.
Relatable
His content also took a nose dive in writing. (The only thing I can consistently praise is the animation, otherwise it’s terrible)
In fact. I’d like to coin a name, “Shallow series” a series with bad writing that has quality everywhere else. (Good visuals, good effects, good music.) Usually isn’t enjoyable without those moments of quality to shine.
Never watched him in like a year ago, he never felt the same since 2018
I actually make content myself and I'm not interested in making money.
Sure I have thousands of followers on Instagram and Tiktok
I think big channels like Oversimplified... I feel like he gets $70k per sponsorship but he also only posts 1-2x/year
Yeah I don't like sponsors that much it's like a commercial
I don’t mind too much of sponsorships. Nothing against them in general. But I’d usually would just skip them entirely.
Though if any content creators would do any type of sponsor, I think it works best to have them placed at the end of the video. Schaffrillas Productions and Saberapark are examples who do this.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I think they were also guilty of putting it in the middle of their videos at some point.
Edit: (Actually Schaffrillas has put it in the middle of his video before.)
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i really love your double standards there, sponsors are essentially worse version of ads and it gets especially annoying for all the premium users out there. Not to mention if you're the type who likes to listen to videos they'll get annoying AF quickly, trust me
@@wtzhangwtzhang9439 imagine paying for youtube
Facts
The Surfshark segment in asdfmovie 15 deleted scenes is actually entertaining
I hate the Too.
Mostly because they always have sponsors in the beginning or middle of the videos.
I'm on a 50/50 thing with TH-camr merch. Like it depends, if it's very creative or has good art and stuff. I just don't buy it if it costs too much for me or it's not something I would use/wear all the time. I also don't like it when it's limited time only or something.
There are TH-camrs who make merch that isn't straight up based on them, like Slime Story by Slimecicle, that I think are pretty neat. Honestly, I think TH-camr merch are just an extreme case of 'your mileage may vary'. You may like it, you may not, just don't let your kid wear it to school unless you know they aren't gonna get bullied for it.
13:21 That's it, Patrick! We gotta spread the truth!
"Have sponsorships on YT gone overboard?"
Three words: in this economy
Do you know, what's the channel with a lot of youtube sponsorship? Of course is death battle by rooster teeth
More like forcing us to watch commercials
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You forgot to mention sponsorships that haven't aged well like: "This video is sponsored by Amino"
“This video is sponsored by betterhelp” …yikes
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I understand the need for sponsorships so I tend not to complain when I see them, but yeah. I notice more and more channels i watch interrupting the flow of the video for a sponsorship plug.
Some TH-camrs do it right when they put it at the beginning of the video before the discussion begins or find alternative ways to make extra money like a Patreon or other forms of members-only content.
If a youtuber has hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in their bank account then there is really no need for those stupid sponsorships. They should be reserved only for less wealthy youtubers, not millionaires.
Dude sponsers uselly happen when you reach 200k subs and for people who has 200k the sponser money money nothing for them
@@Ignisan_66agreed
I think emplemon does the best sponsorships, he finds a way to make them entertaining
Haven't seen a sponsor message in years. This is a solved problem with the sponsorblock extension.
13:03 My bf played and he was happy to see all these sponsorships. They pissed me off. He played raid for 5 years, nonstop. But then, he realised that “oh actually yeah, you were right, this game is clearly piece of crap”
In recent years Plarium (developers) has become more greedy. Especially with mech arena. They put lots of microtransactions and ads. Also with raid, so my bf finally abandoned it
Thank you TH-cam for adding the “jump ahead” option
I often don’t really have a problem with sponsorships, for the most part. They’re easy to skip (especially now with the new ‘jump ahead’ feature, and I understand that creators need to make money. My only real problems are when they sell out to things that people recognize as scam sites or are predatory in nature, without doing the due diligence that would prevent the sponsorships from happening in the first place.
Internet Comment Etiquette's Nobbleberry ones were awesome. The amount of effort Erik put to make the sponsored segment entertaining so you'd want to watch it even if you don't care about the product was amazing!
I don’t care for TH-cam Sponsorships either so good on you for making this dab!
Caddicarus and TomSka make sponsors fun to watch with a full on character and sketches respectively. Probably the only sponsors I don't mind watching.
I will never use a sponsor.
Basically... I'm not a used car salesman.
I will say, if you haven't seen Bruva Alfabusa's *Hunter the Parenting*, the few sponsorships in there are not only non-intrusive, but they are also an absolutely hilarious bit on their own.
as someone who watches commentary channels, I DONT WANT AIR UP DAMMIT
My biggest issue is that they call it "Sponsors". It's an advertisement, Nothing more, nothing less. Just call it what it is!
Caddicarus and CoryxKenshin are like the only 2 off the top of my head that actually did sponsors good (even though Cory did it like once)
Shoutout to Sponsorblock
Production value of youtube videos is much higher today than a few years ago. These sponsored segments allow creators to make money and put much more effort and even money into videos.
I'm so glad that some people are throwing away literal 10s of thousands of dollars to say fuck sponsors. It gives me a bit of hope.