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  • Does TH-cam feel different lately? Are you getting slammed with ads on the content you watch? Maybe even this video? Are you irritated by ads and maybe even frustrated with TH-cam’s monetization system?
    Well, you are not alone, and I have the answer and explanation to all of these concerns and questions. I'm dead serious. There's an explainable answer to all these issues, so let's get started.
    Here are the chapters for this video. Feel free to jump around accordingly:
    0:00 Introduction
    1:05 Ad Issue 1
    1:48 Ad Issue 2
    2:03 The Major Issue With TH-cam Ads (The Facts)
    4:22 How Creators Fit Into This
    5:38 Creator Example
    6:50 How This Is Harming Small Creators
    8:14 What TH-cam Needs To Do
    Note:
    I deliberately leave the channel icons and video titles on each video for reference in case anyone wants to see the full videos featured in these documentaries. If anything is unclear, or for additional references, please reach out, and I will happily provide a link to any of the following content discussed, featured, or used as a b-roll in the video.
    Copyright Note:
    Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
    Music:
    In this video, in particular, I was in a RuneScape vibe, so I used some of Ian Taylor's incredible music. Please check out his music on Spotify if you are into that style. I cannot emphasize enough how good the music is.
    Music:
    All songs featured in the video are from:
    - Epidemic Sound: share.epidemicsound.com/8mvwnm
    - TH-cam's copyright free music library.
    - Or some of Ian Taylor's incredible music. Please check out his music on Spotify if you are into that style. I cannot emphasize enough how good the music is.
    =-=-=-=
    Creators note:
    Hello, my name is Zackary Smigel. I've been creating TH-cam videos since I was a kid. I started TH-cam full-time about five years ago. You might have seen me from Real Estate License Wizard, where I obtained 60,000 subscribers and over 5 million channel views. I have since left that channel for creative pursuits, and this is my first crack at starting something new. I'd appreciate a like and subscribe if this content interests you and I captured your attention for even just a few moments.
    On a secondary note, this video is a follow-up to my last, although it can stand on its own. This is my 11th video essay using this style and format. Last week, I was happy to have 1,000 subscribers. Now, I have over 50,000. This is still unbelievable to me. I am so grateful for the support. Technical-wise, I figured out the sound effect issue, which is great. I'm happy with how this one came out. I hope all enjoy!
    Thanks so much for watching,
    Zackary Smigel
    #youtube #videoessay #zackarysmigel
    =-=-=-=
    Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more engaging video commentary!
    =-=-=-=

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  • @ZackarySmigel
    @ZackarySmigel  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3474

    For the sake of science and the fact I don't have a sponsor on this video. I'm going to put one midroll on this video JUST ONE for the whole video. And please let me know in the comments if you got an ad or not. I'm generally curious what percentage of you do. If I had to guess, I'd say 70% but again. I don't have that data and no one except TH-cam does.

    • @tabbyx9926
      @tabbyx9926 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +342

      I got an ad for Google at the start off the video.

    • @WatchThisSpace415
      @WatchThisSpace415 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

      I saw no ad.

    • @ActualChrist
      @ActualChrist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ublock origin works pretty wel for me

    • @Mileke
      @Mileke 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

      ad in the beginning

    • @Dozeji
      @Dozeji 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

      Turned off the ad blocker to see how this would work, and didn't get an add. Perhaps it's because the cookie remembered to play the cached video without any ads pre-placed, but... It's just my guess

  • @PuppetNerd
    @PuppetNerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3794

    If you don't post for 6 months, 100% of your ad revenue starts going to TH-cam. You should make a video on that too. This terribly effects people who become ill, disabled, or even pass away hoping to leave the revenue generated by their library of content to their families.

    • @ZackarySmigel
      @ZackarySmigel  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1076

      I never realized that. Wow.

    • @perhapsyes2493
      @perhapsyes2493 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +671

      What.
      That is absolutely appalling... if not outright illegal? The uploader retains copyright, yes?

    • @Muhluri
      @Muhluri 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

      So they actually follow that rule? That sucks

    • @suedonym495
      @suedonym495 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +405

      Ok wow wtf. In that case my prediction for the future of TH-cam is that creators that haven't posted in months will upload what amounts to a filler video of no true substance just to maintain revenue. Thus, by no true fault of their own, TH-cam will just end up almost completely devoid of actual content. Becoming really, just a shitvideopost site

    • @stevekullens4898
      @stevekullens4898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +130

      Damn, and here I thought one of the benefits of being a youtuber is having flexibility.

  • @niccalee
    @niccalee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7717

    I think it's ridiculous that TH-cam lets scam and raunchy ads onto their platform but gets mad at a creator over the strangest things.

    • @EmeraldEyesEsoteric
      @EmeraldEyesEsoteric 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry, but youtube sucks. Nothing but censorship, shadow banning, ads, and now they are deleting inactive channels starting in December. I have a lot of playlists full of important videos whose creators are done. They made the videos, did their job, and now they are done. I have to go and hunt down their content. My own videos won't live on after I've perished either, now on his God Forsaken platform. It only ever gets worse, never better.

    • @thetwistedone05
      @thetwistedone05 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +343

      I had an ad about an automatic banana cleaner... well atleast the caption said it was one.

    • @NomastiAfricanWarlord
      @NomastiAfricanWarlord 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

      The ads give them money, random TH-camrs do not.

    • @TheAstroProblem
      @TheAstroProblem 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      have you seen the "magic sex gun" add? i did. look it up.@@thetwistedone05

    • @ThatOneGuy_1.0
      @ThatOneGuy_1.0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      I had 10 ads watching this...

  • @Ertplays
    @Ertplays 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +105

    The biggest thing wrong with TH-cam… medical videos (like how to do CPR) also have ads! Don’t know how to do CPR? Well, ad time! You don’t get to save someone’s life!

    • @user-nl5fv5po5l
      @user-nl5fv5po5l 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      You can’t save their life, but you can save TH-cam’s money!

  • @emmalee343
    @emmalee343 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +501

    If I see another Hello Fresh ad, I'll sign up with a competitor out of spite.
    Having said that, advertisers need to be made aware of this problem. They could potentially be losing customers.

    • @magnolia972
      @magnolia972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      everyone is loosing because i don’t even buy from a competitor. YT ads are the best way to avoid companies, influencers, wise guys, etc.

    • @Jeefane
      @Jeefane 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      I actively avoid brands that advertise to me relentlessly or in an intrusive way, and I slander them if anyone brings them up in conversation. Unless I sought out the product/service, they can get bent.

    • @bjornskivids
      @bjornskivids หลายเดือนก่อน

      Subscribe to TH-cam and actually become a customer and you'll never deal with the "problem" again.
      Free-riders are not customers. Losing them costs TH-cam exactly nothing. They're like kids that bring their own cups to Burger King and sit at the soda fountain all day lecturing the manager about how badly they'd be missed if they weren't there freeloading.

    • @just1luckyguy229
      @just1luckyguy229 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bjornskivids except thats not true, is it?
      TH-cam marketed itself as a free platform, getting money by showing you ads, and gathering data, and nobody raised an eyebrow. Problem is, they invented this "ad problem" niwadays, to grab as mutch money from everyone as they could.
      Just cancel premium and use the workarounds, saves you the money and time.

    • @PineappleDealer37
      @PineappleDealer37 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Imagine advertising a product, which is only available in the capitals and biggest cities of the biggest countries to, let's say, the entire internet.
      Usually people are aiming at 2% click rate on advertisements, but this is actually even worse. Even if the 2% do click on the adds, 90% of these people will see "Service unavailable in your region"
      What's the point

  • @BenHeckHacks
    @BenHeckHacks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5384

    I love how TH-cam puts their "warning context" labels on videos they deem misinformation, then shows you an ad for a "miracle cream that can regrow teeth"

    • @sihamhamda47
      @sihamhamda47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +450

      Or "get 1000% return in just a week" investment scam ads

    • @furdiburd
      @furdiburd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@sihamhamda47or "mr beast giveaway" just give us your email password, ID, and bank card :) no scam ofc

    • @komiks42
      @komiks42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +281

      I remember geting add for "datting app" that had clip of girl geting screwed (all "naughty parts" were of screen) on a minecraft video once.
      They really put anything for add

    • @POVwithRC
      @POVwithRC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ben, as we know, Google is the pinnacle of opinionated prostitute. If you pay them, they'll do anything you want. If you do not pay them, they just get self righteous.

    • @slick571
      @slick571 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ​@@komiks42😂😂

  • @tgirltouhou
    @tgirltouhou 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +758

    it's hilarious they block adblockers, then give me an advertisement for a scam adblocker

    • @lordTyrus9
      @lordTyrus9 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I know, i keep getting advertised for "privacy add blocker". Wile the add blocker being hypocritical for blocking adds wile advertising their product.

    • @viperdemonz-jenkins
      @viperdemonz-jenkins หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Opera GX ad block works great.

    • @8bitminer
      @8bitminer หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lordTyrus9it both creates a problem and offers a solution

    • @SW73_TWBFDIC
      @SW73_TWBFDIC หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@viperdemonz-jenkins Opera GX is 🗑️

    • @asrr62
      @asrr62 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@SW73_TWBFDICbruh I can't get over how ugly the UI is on that browser it's so ugly never seen anything like it!!

  • @BrightElk
    @BrightElk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    I'm kind of angry recently because we got a horror ad, while watching a strawberry shortcake video mind you, it started FROM THE BEGGINING with a jump scare at 2:00pm so no time to navigate away and scared the snot out of myself and traumatized my 2 year old. Bloody gory and very scary. But my favourite TH-camr Girl with the dogs gets her video taken down because a cat scratched her and she bled ever so slightly. Double standard much? Now my kid isn't gonna sleep for a month. Sometimes I think they do it on purpose because they are secretly hoping parents will feel forced to buy premium!

    • @nazwakanau1240
      @nazwakanau1240 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Adblock

    • @samuellourenco1050
      @samuellourenco1050 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've got a literal porn ad showing the underside of a woman while seeing a video about programming.

    • @blackqweenmars
      @blackqweenmars หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Fr and don’t forget about the momo thing they really need to monitor what type of ads they’re allowing on the platform too. They took down a video of me holding my cat with her not even fighting or anything.

    • @abiliv-lf9tz
      @abiliv-lf9tz หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Nah man I'm sorry for ur 2yo that shit is traumatizing now you gotta explain movie special effects & actors 😭

    • @HappyGick
      @HappyGick 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      I would refrain from showing my kids anything social media just because of how predatory they are. No social media until they're 13 and understand the risks, period.

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    Advertisers: We do not want our ads appearing on videos that are offensive.
    TH-cam: Okay. We'll suppress the creators.
    Creators: We don't want our videos to have these offensive scam ads.
    TH-cam: STFU. We own you.

    • @rogerwilco2
      @rogerwilco2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes. I would really like TH-cam to get rid of all the scam adds.
      Show me adds for dtuff I am actually interested in, relevant to the content of the video, pr for events in my region.

  • @mikond
    @mikond 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1967

    not only that, increasing the number of ads actually hurts the creators because more people are downloading adblocks.

    • @TheAnxiousOwl
      @TheAnxiousOwl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +353

      To me, it hurts creators because theres less watch time for the actual content and ads become so annoying that people give up halfway through the video

    • @BT-ex7ko
      @BT-ex7ko 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +200

      @@BruceOMalley I feel this. Currently using an adblock, but with adblocks constantly under fire-if they ever remove functionality for adblockers entirely, I'm out. I have better things to use my time on and honestly, I've never once in my life clicked on an ad or spent money on an advertised product on youtube in my entire life. Especially now since most are scams or blatant malware. Its kind of disgusting.
      I do feel bad for creators, I do, but I can't support this behavior at all from youtube.

    • @thederpwad8282
      @thederpwad8282 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      @@BT-ex7ko I'm in the same boat. Honestly, if they restrict adblockers, it will probably be good for me in the long run to be forced off this website.

    • @Content_Deleted
      @Content_Deleted 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Chad Terraria pfp

    • @AslgamingOffical
      @AslgamingOffical 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I vividly remember when I first started using TH-cam vanced, it felt like a breath of fresh air, no ads, I could see the dislikes, and all the neat features it originally had where back, but then just recently it just...... Stopped working out of nowhere, and now I have no other choice by to use regular TH-cam, I remember just feeling defeated when that happened bc to me it felt almost like Google was responsible for shutting it down so I can go back to their crappy version shell of former youtube, All lot of the features on regular TH-cam have sorts grown on me but the ads.... My god the ads, they will always give me migraines

  • @speedodragon
    @speedodragon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5749

    I find it super predatory that they take ad revenue from creators that aren't getting paid. If they aint getting paid neither should TH-cam.

    • @RamkrishanYT
      @RamkrishanYT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +280

      You guys are insane, servers cost money
      People are free to just not upload..
      Don't insult by comparing it to slavery

    • @captaincactus5247
      @captaincactus5247 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      so you're on youtubes side with the whole ad thing?@@RamkrishanYT

    • @Johnny_Silverhand1
      @Johnny_Silverhand1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@RamkrishanYT I don’t think you understand the point my guy either out of willful ignorance or malicious brown nosing. If YT/GOOG came out from the start and said ads on non monetized content would pay for servers, then no one would have an issue. The point is that YT became popular in the first place because the whole schema was ads would go on monetized content only under the pretense that creators get paid. Changing company policy years after the fact and without a formal announcement of any sort may be legal and well within their rights but its not ethical nor should creators take it sitting down. This hurts small creators with non monetized content the most. Stop brown nosing for multi billion dollar corpos when will you bozos learn

    • @SonetLandman
      @SonetLandman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

      I feel that this is one possibility that TH-cam does apply brakes to beginner channels. Logically it does not make sense that I got to 500 subscribers fairly easy and quickly in 5 months with bad quality videos as I had no idea what I was doing. Now, after the 500 mark I get 1 subscriber a week if I am lucky. This makes no logic sense to me. My subscriber speed should have picked up. But slowing me down means a lot longer period for TH-cam to take 100% of the ad revenue off of my content.
      Also keep in mind with our complete broken down postal system in South Africa I can wait up to 6 months before I get the code TH-cam sends to your physical postal address plus then there is the chance that it can get lost in the post completely.

    • @KandyChoppe
      @KandyChoppe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +333

      @@SonetLandman Making videos is making art, and if someone is going to profit off of that art by doing nothing except share it with the class, the least they could do is give some of the money back to the person who made it. If they can't do that, then don't profit off of it.

  • @bjarnmundurbenelius9209
    @bjarnmundurbenelius9209 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I was mindblown when you said "let me explain" at 5:58 and TH-cam immediately played me an ad and I genuinely thought you had somehow managed to time that perfectly.

  • @mrkrabs4743
    @mrkrabs4743 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    They need to fix their problem of inappropriate ads.

  • @jarethanson8775
    @jarethanson8775 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +516

    I refuse to pay TH-cam to fix an ad problem that they created

    • @johnberger55
      @johnberger55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      this makes snek happy

    • @DragonloverWV
      @DragonloverWV 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The only reason I have Premium is that I am a minor and my dad pays for it

    • @MrOsmodeus
      @MrOsmodeus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      i refuse to pay youtube for doing nothing but host the videos. the users make the content youtube only helps if they're already popular. if youtube has a problem with income (they do not) maybe they could reign in the 4k video's and people livestreaming shower thoughts from potato's. maybe take the 6 year old "breaking news" videos off of the algorithm. at least netflix/disney/amazon etc make content. youtube is just a video search engine hosted by the most famous search engine.
      if alphabet keeps this up your google searches will be delayed by two video ads before you can see the results

    • @zoeyfalconer85
      @zoeyfalconer85 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      very well put, i agree

    • @hydrogenbond7303
      @hydrogenbond7303 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MrOsmodeusmost of the money from premium goes to the monetized creators

  • @bluepheonixsoul1553
    @bluepheonixsoul1553 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1271

    The most surprising part of this video was learning that nearly 10% of users have premium, that's honestly an order of magnitude more than I expected.

    • @NerreraFightStories
      @NerreraFightStories 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Premium is not for everyone but it's decent value in my opinion if TH-cam is your main media entertainment source, as you get TH-cam Music with Premium too so you don't need to pay for Spotify/Apple Music

    • @shigekax
      @shigekax 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honestly youtube premium isn't bad, I had it for free for 3 months (thanks genshin impact) and it was nice
      I'd go back to it if I was able to budget better

    • @dreadedTanker3173
      @dreadedTanker3173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

      I run adblocks on my pc, and I just deal with it on my phone. Not like I ever buy anything from the invasive ads anyways. And I’d rather not give TH-cam my money.

    • @EvanOfTheDarkness
      @EvanOfTheDarkness 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

      Not, _that_ surprising, TH-cam nowadays is unwatchable with ads. So your options are 1. use an ad blocker, 2. pay for premium, or 3. just leave the platform, and watch something else. Also it's just US data, where people love to pay for anything.

    • @calamorta
      @calamorta 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's cheap, allows a smoother experience all around, and it's a far better service than Netflix etc (you can always count on it for entertainment, unlike Netflix's catalogue)

  • @SunsetEnvy
    @SunsetEnvy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    Ever since TH-cam started blocking adblockers I've been getting ads about desperate moms in my area on my main page 💀💀💀 like imagine if a child saw that.

    • @mandythegrimadventures1967
      @mandythegrimadventures1967 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      for me i get "gacha heat" ads.
      *S E R I O U S L Y.*

    • @GDhatenal
      @GDhatenal 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      i get those ads and im a minor, like im a teen but thats still insane
      edit: and my account has the correct setup for

    • @syndiahato5188
      @syndiahato5188 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      I get ads about underwear for girls (im a guy)

    • @dollzo
      @dollzo 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@syndiahato5188you tube's tryna turn you into a femboy lol

  • @mozzapple
    @mozzapple 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    TH-cam just added more ads. Every time I pause the video. EVERY TIME. It will take me out of fullscreen to show me a popup ad on the area where the comment section popup is

  • @anonymouspig992
    @anonymouspig992 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +868

    I hate the fact that if you miss the skip ads button you have to suffer through the second ad until you can skip that one

    • @dimeweld
      @dimeweld 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      What kind of scheme shit is that right?

    • @hitsugatatsuro9978
      @hitsugatatsuro9978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      And when you don't miss it, you have a chance to get unskippable ads. Even for videos less than a minute long. Once got a 5 second ad for a 10 second video. I wish YT implemented a 1 minute minimum to video uploads cuz I keep getting shitposts recommended to me if I click even one for fun which they slap feckin ads to for some reason.

    • @Noblesse_Sapphire
      @Noblesse_Sapphire 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I used to clicked on the ! sign near the countdown and "report" the add to skip it (not doing anything for the ads tho, they still give me the same frikken ads)
      When i updated my TH-cam version i can't even do it anymore, you can still report it, but it doesn't skip the ads :""D

    • @ketimmi8109
      @ketimmi8109 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I hate when you are nice enough to watch through the entire ad but then they give you a still picture with a timer

    • @trevorwylie5882
      @trevorwylie5882 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      On my laptop if when an ad starts I just keep reloading the video using the chrome reload icon until there is no ad and it puts the viewing figures too if the ads still keep appearing I just move on to another video.

  • @DFOwl
    @DFOwl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +751

    It is extremely frustrating how TH-camrs get demonitized for the smallest infraction (even if it's nothing really) while advertisers can upload scams, cult recruitment ads, etc.

    • @jackpijjin4088
      @jackpijjin4088 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Eek, you said the fuck word! Demonitized!"
      *the ad they put on next is for custom resin dildos. Yes that's a real ad I've gotten.*

    • @Serendip98
      @Serendip98 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      And porno bots act in total peace, with no response from TH-cam.

    • @chrisanderson7906
      @chrisanderson7906 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      and they never did fixed the spam bot problem in the commets of some popular youtuber's videos like penguinz0 there are still don't read my name bots and my farts smell better then blank's bot...

    • @mortenlarsen8282
      @mortenlarsen8282 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@chrisanderson7906😊

    • @ralphwarom2514
      @ralphwarom2514 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      :D Thank you. I really hate all these scam, sprots betting ads being thrown at me. Like OMFG. WTF. I dont mind ads. I really mind terrible low tier low morality ads.

  • @BoldFollower
    @BoldFollower หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'm not monetized yet, but I was researching that the CREATORS can choose how many ads are in their videos. Yes, they can't dictate exactly how many, but a creator can choose "aggressive" as an option, which will make the videos very ad heavy. But that's not a TH-cam issue, that's the creators choice...

  • @ArcNeoMasato
    @ArcNeoMasato 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I know what drives me nuts is how ads work on TV apps now. The little yellow "must watch this much" timer will show up at MUCH higher times than I've ever seen on my phone/tablet/computer, 10 seconds max vs 45 seconds some times. And not only that, I've had COUNTLESS times where an ad ends on the moment the skip button becomes active, and it starts a new ad with yet ANOTHER count down before I can skip.

  • @trevorslinkard31
    @trevorslinkard31 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +602

    TH-cam did Armchair Historian dirty by demonetizing his educational, unbiased history videos claiming they weren’t ad friendly, then still rolls ads on them. It’s borderline criminal.

    • @gandalf_thegrey
      @gandalf_thegrey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      They do that with everyone. Not one exception.
      They tell you, your videos arent suitable for ads - and put the very same amount of ads on this video.
      Just so they can pocket 100% instead of having to give out a few cents per 1000 views.

    • @hitsugatatsuro9978
      @hitsugatatsuro9978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      ​@@gandalf_thegreyKinda wonder about that. TH-cam tends to play favorites, especially to their cash cow cash creators. Lower million channels just get left in the dust while the behemoths get their own YT rep who vouches for issues they bring up internally, as per what I've seen from Mark and Jack's channels during periods they'd get unlawfully stricken by the bot.

    • @Hirohitorunguard
      @Hirohitorunguard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      calling armchair historian educational and unbiased is a stretch if i've ever seen one, but i don't think he makes anything that is demonetizable at least.

    • @jeevacation
      @jeevacation 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@gandalf_thegrey creators gets 55% not just a few cents for 1k views

    • @Gliese710_
      @Gliese710_ หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@jeevacation55% probably is still a few cents, you dont make shit if you aren’t massive.

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +652

    What I find infuriating is if I don't want to show ads and so turn off monetization TH-cam starts showing ads anyway without paying me. So I have to enable monetization and set it to the bare minimum ads. This of course doesn't remove them entirely only reduces them.

    • @EthanPerales.
      @EthanPerales. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Seems accurate, as I don't see many ads on your vids, I just thought you were getting the short end of the stick, but apparently it was purposeful.

    • @GhostKing6790
      @GhostKing6790 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Well you’re uploading on their site. You are using their hosting service which costs them resources to run and maintain. If you don’t want to pay someone else to host your videos, then make your own hosting service.

    • @noelvalenzarro
      @noelvalenzarro 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@GhostKing6790you mean the fraction of a fraction of a cent the video costs to host?

    • @Sanji66
      @Sanji66 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      W

    • @pottsy.
      @pottsy. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Oh hi Cody!

  • @GGmanlife
    @GGmanlife หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    In the past 1 or 2 weeks I’ve noticed that there have been far fewer skippable ads too

  • @georgeharris572
    @georgeharris572 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    there are times when I watch a 2 to 3 minute music video and have like 5 minutes of ads on top of them being gambling, scams, politics for the wrong area, oh and porn all the things I use ADblock to avoid

  • @sativaburns6705
    @sativaburns6705 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +579

    As a former premium subscriber, I found a other issue is youtube aggressively demonetizing many of my favorite creators over content like video game violence, or erroneously calling them a clip repost channel...

    • @numizumi5131
      @numizumi5131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      This is actually why I stopped doing premium looks like I need a good ad block

    • @decreer4567
      @decreer4567 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      It’s so TH-cam can keep the ad revenue to themselves

    • @SLVYER1
      @SLVYER1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Remember when you just paid TH-cam like five bucks and then I would show your video like 200,000 people, and it was up to them to click it or not.
      Now you're paying them that money monthly and you're not getting anything for it's crazy, no room for growth.
      It really makes youtube a one class platform

    • @TheTraveler980
      @TheTraveler980 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@numizumi5131CleanTube. It's an app that is an ad-free version of TH-cam.

    • @MrQuequito
      @MrQuequito 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      A friend of mine gets his videos demonetized all the time, there isnt an explanation and the video itself isnt sexual related, its a child toy related, no bad language, no weird images, no copyright music. Nothing, then he appeals and youtube always reinstates the monetization, but well after the first wave of views, which is what makes the most profit

  • @Chaso-1124
    @Chaso-1124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +297

    The worst kind of ads are those on the app where the video will take over 75% of the screen and the other 25% is an ad banner wanting you to click on their link to buy their stuff. It is so jarring and frustrating when you are in the middle of the video and decide to go scrolling through the comments but immediately get interupted and can't look at anything until this unskippable ad finishes all the way through. It completely removes you from the video, comments, and the experience

    • @pinobluevogel6458
      @pinobluevogel6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Any advertisement during the video is going to take away from the experience. Besides maybe in rare cases the creator places a point for an ad-roll, I would only understand a short ad at the beginning for longer videos.
      While watching DJ mix-sets, we used to be able to at least watch the whole video (about an hour or slightly over) with only an add at the beginning and at the end, but a few years ago the ad frequency and length both increased drastically. Now there is an ad about every 10 minutes, which basically defeats the whole point of watching the set. We've had to resort to adblockers on our pc and having to download the whole thing on USB and play it from there on our smart-tv.
      Imagine how bad this is for short form content. Having a 5 minute video with two 14-second ads in front of it, I've seen that already a few years ago. Its just not worth your time anymore, so I cannot understand people put up with it and google trying to force it.

    • @Chaso-1124
      @Chaso-1124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @pinobluevogel6458
      True, any ad is a take away but these are especially bad since you can't even look at the original video description or comments
      It makes me not even want to watch short content. Why bother watching a 5 minute video if I get 2 or 3 ad rolls. It gets so bad sometimes with the ads and repetitive content that sometimes I just turn off TH-cam and find something else entertaining. It's like the old feeling of watching TV, nothing is really on and you keep seeing ads for stuff you don't want. Eventually you just turn it off and find something else

    • @pinobluevogel6458
      @pinobluevogel6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Chaso-1124 Understandable. Without ad-blocking, I wouldn't have been as invested in youtube at all. Just sticking to less horrible platforms, or simply resorting back to offline entertainment would probably not be too bad either.

    • @kevinm.n.5158
      @kevinm.n.5158 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I just close the video, go to history if I have to and open and close the video til the ads stop. Hopefully that prevents them from getting the money

    • @FlyingTeaRex
      @FlyingTeaRex 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Yea, I really hate that too. The comment section gets reset to the top and you don’t know how far you’d read.

  • @KK-xu2yj
    @KK-xu2yj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I cannot stress the importance of using a adblock. It's not just about "I don't want to see ads" anymore. Ad companies like google have grown too bold over their get rich free scheme. It's not about selling you a product, it's about information now. Get an adblock. Lear more on the subject. Don't let these companies make money off of you without you even agreeing to it.

  • @sailorenthusiast
    @sailorenthusiast 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Something I noticed since I watch TH-cam on multiple devices is that there tends to be a lot more ads all grouped together when watching on TV or gaming consoles like the Switch. I was trying to watch a video my brother made on the TV, but it kept getting interrupted by ad segments that would span 5 ads each. If I pause the video for any reason, as soon as I unpause the video, another long ad segment will play. It’s ridiculous. It feels like TH-cam is only bearable to watch on mobile and PC. Especially given it’s easier to find ways to block ads on those devices.

  • @Akotski-ys9rr
    @Akotski-ys9rr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +473

    The only way to fight TH-cam’s horrible ad system is to not pay for the overpriced premium and just block the ads

    • @CatNap11888
      @CatNap11888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Or use a free adblocker

    • @dimesonhiseyes9134
      @dimesonhiseyes9134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​@@CatNap11888man, ad blockers are super sketchy sometimes.

    • @ian2183
      @ian2183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup

    • @nettack
      @nettack 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dimesonhiseyes9134 If you cannot be arsed to research the legit ones you deserver everything coming your way.

    • @toxicpony3381
      @toxicpony3381 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Same here - adblock installed. TH-cam has problem with what?😎

  • @MrxD-cg5xs
    @MrxD-cg5xs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +581

    TH-cam should be held responsible for what is shown in their ads.
    There is really no excuse for them not to monitor what they themselves are advertising on their platform- they collect money from the advertisers to show their stuff after all.
    It can not be that there are blatant scams being advertised or that there is literal pornography being shown on TH-cam Kids like we had a few years ago.

    • @kateajurors8640
      @kateajurors8640 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Yes and while I'll get some ads from legit companies like weibo or whatever I don't want to use weapon and then when I block the ad I get the ad except instead of from the weibo company it's from some other company based out of Hong Kong and a lot of spam companies are coming from Hong Kong for some reason or maybe it's a company that works with advertisement.

    • @IanGilleson
      @IanGilleson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I once got a semi-threat from a scam add for gas masks

    • @joshb6470
      @joshb6470 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sit at the home screen and watch the counter on it skyrocket, I am up to 20 already on this video alone, was close to 300 before I clicked this video

    • @gandalf_thegrey
      @gandalf_thegrey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The was never any "literal pornography" on YT Kids.
      Elsagate and Pronography are two entirely different things.

    • @bok9596
      @bok9596 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I try to say that i dont want period product ads like 5 times but it didnt stop so i gave up

  • @wkt2506
    @wkt2506 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Also the ads are in the middle of the video and intrusively interrupting the actual content is hard to comprehend.
    I go to TH-cam to relax but now it feels stressful!

    • @Flipping-is-fun
      @Flipping-is-fun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well put! The youtube has become STRESSFUL to at least 4 billion users. That's a lot.

  • @MyThirdUserAccount
    @MyThirdUserAccount 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +425

    Really miss the days when you could create a music playlist and just listen to it uninterrupted. Same playlist now has innumerable ads between songs, some 5x longer than the videos they're playing on

    • @xoxablade8345
      @xoxablade8345 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      EXACTLY! I FIND IT SO ANNOYINGGGGGGGG
      Like can I PLEASE listen to ONE song without having to sit through THREE unskippable ads to hear it???

    • @janky200
      @janky200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Omfg not to mention ads in the middle of longer songs 😒

    • @sharedgrave
      @sharedgrave 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if you have ios theres an app called musi thats youtube based and only has visual ads that dont really disrupt anything :)

    • @draketeeth8004
      @draketeeth8004 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      The ads in the middle of long songs kills the vibe so hard.

    • @sebastianestrada3697
      @sebastianestrada3697 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Or when you put on a video of rain sounds to fall asleep, cause apparently you need ads in your dreams.

  • @m.a.4500
    @m.a.4500 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    *An advertisement at the start and end of a video is reasonable.*
    But they are spamming it too often now. A complete deterrence.
    Even more annoying is its usually the same ad constantly repeated over and over at a louder volume.
    Not to mention the intrusive ‘next video’ popup at the end of videos that blocks the screen so you can’t see.
    The ‘recommended’ non-video ads and shorts can also be offensive and inappropriate, and you can not block them.
    And there should be a filter to block out all videos without audio or ‘captions subtitles’ translations in your own language.
    Its choresome scrolling through so many foreign language videos just to find something you can understand.

  • @40088922
    @40088922 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think I wouldn't mind the barrage of ads quite as much if all of them were at least skippable. some are over a minute long and don't give the option to skip, heck, there those times with 2 ads in a row and NEITHER can be skipped

  • @rhettorical
    @rhettorical 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +257

    The first time I heard that TH-cam will run ads on non-monetized videos, I was disgusted. I still am. I get why they do it, but it's still disgusting. I flat refuse to ever disable my adblocker. If I want to support someone, I will do it directly.

    • @Alex-Defatte
      @Alex-Defatte 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That happened to my channel and I am furious. Sound cloud is no better. I don't know where to take my music. I want a better platform.

    • @o_o8203
      @o_o8203 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @Specious-Official Patreon? You'd still use TH-cam and probably upload differently but I'd consider it.

    • @Alex-Defatte
      @Alex-Defatte 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much. I never thought about it. I don't like asking for money for my music but if someone's already taking from my pocket I suppose I should really consider it. @@o_o8203

    • @doomawsogaming
      @doomawsogaming 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Unfortunately, Google plans on blocking ad blockers

    • @dimesonhiseyes9134
      @dimesonhiseyes9134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@doomawsogamingthey have been trying for a long time.

  • @primsine
    @primsine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    Finally, it makes sense why they keep advertising small TH-camrs now. It's literally free money if they blow up.

    • @halinaqi2194
      @halinaqi2194 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      You're right, get them views, make money while the smaller channel can't get monetized, and once they're big enough to be monetized but not large enough to be self sufficient on TH-cam you stop pushing their content.
      A large majority, and I mean an overwhelming majority of TH-cam users barely have any subs. And number of subs doesn't necessarily correlate with video quality, sometimes I find smaller channels with great content, that go a long while without "blowing up"
      Its a bit sad, but I guess that may be the price to pay for any average joe to be able to upload a video. I just wish that no matter how small you are, you'd get a cut of a revenue, cuz that would incentive some smaller youtubers to get more serious about it than just treat it as a hobby.

    • @RosellaMae_
      @RosellaMae_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yea, on my old channel i got a 20 second ad on my own video and i didn't earn any money from it as my channel wasn't monetized. I had 200 subs at the time
      Edit: i forgot to mention the video was only 12 seconds

  • @Dmgr_
    @Dmgr_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When I play a music playlist an ad pops up in the middle of the song. It doesn't stop. Another Ad pops up if I don't skip

  • @witchtale3159
    @witchtale3159 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I noticed while I’m not signed in on our tv, I would get up to 4 or 5 ads and rarely, not a single one would be skip-able

  • @FrickYourHandle
    @FrickYourHandle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +505

    This guy is a TH-cam wizard we’ve all been waiting for. His content is top tier and super enjoyable

    • @ZealZaddy
      @ZealZaddy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks mom 😉

    • @PomchiPie
      @PomchiPie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed! 😅

    • @standardoilofnewjersey4260
      @standardoilofnewjersey4260 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PomchiPie Indubitably 🧐🎩🥂🍾

    • @EmeraldEyesEsoteric
      @EmeraldEyesEsoteric 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry, but youtube sucks. Nothing but censorship, shadow banning, ads, and now they are deleting inactive channels starting in December. I have a lot of playlists full of important videos whose creators are done. They made the videos, did their job, and now they are done. I have to go and hunt down their content. My own videos won't live on after I've perished either, now on his God Forsaken platform. It only ever gets worse, never better.

    • @assuredaviation9116
      @assuredaviation9116 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And looks the part!

  • @kagitsune
    @kagitsune 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    Also, youtube pushing so many ads is pushing viewers off the platform. Creators get more stressed at how their pay per ad has been halved, youtube is stressed because they can’t charge as much, advertisers are stressed because they know that no one wants to engage with their annoying interruptions. Everyone loses. It’s a terrible system.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone loses except N😊ebula creators

    • @dimesonhiseyes9134
      @dimesonhiseyes9134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never ever ever engage with an add on any platform.

    • @gandalf_thegrey
      @gandalf_thegrey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Adblock guys.
      Adblock.

  • @Harmonia96
    @Harmonia96 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Could you imagine not being paid as a film director for your movie's opening day, where most of the views and income are flowing in?
    It's almost ironic how monetization works in that regard.

  • @iRedEarth
    @iRedEarth 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I got an ad after "It's true. Let me explain" a decent cliffhanger. 7/10

  • @PsychosisPicksDeals
    @PsychosisPicksDeals 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    If the ad system were to be implemented as you proposed, I would disable my adblock to support the creators I like.

  • @CouncilofGeeks
    @CouncilofGeeks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    I’ve got another wrinkle for you: if creators allow TH-cam to auto-place the mid-rolls (and there are surprisingly large channels that appear to not realize you don’t have to allow that) they can be placed more frequently than every 2 minutes. And I’ve found evidence on my own work that TH-cam has added additional mid-rolls even on videos where I placed the ones I wanted manually.

    • @jmurray1110
      @jmurray1110 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Yeah I think TH-cam has a note saying if you don’t allocate ads “appropriately” TH-cam will do it for you and is why videos from long ago will get a fuck tonne of ads without the creator knowing

    • @Flipping-is-fun
      @Flipping-is-fun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wonder if they have ads on my videos. I'm a super small channel. If you can watch just one video and there are ads on it, can you tell me in the comments section.

  • @user-my4ei5xs7k
    @user-my4ei5xs7k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    3 ads, and I have premium. Because of this plethora of ads EVERYWHERE interrupting EVERYTHING, I've stopped being online as much and am actually going outside, hanging with my friends and pursuing creative projects. I WIN! ;D

  • @xTheMLPGodx
    @xTheMLPGodx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    One more thing that I found out about that is completely ridiculous was a content creator who was really against putting midrolls in their videos, and youtube automatically added them to his older videos. He had to spend *days* manually removing all of them

  • @thepericlesof8449
    @thepericlesof8449 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    I am a business owner, and I would NEVER waste a cent on advertising on TH-cam. If I myself actively AVOID brands which annoy me through YT ads, I cannot be the only one who generates a distaste for the brands that annoy me during my leisure time.

    • @benjaminsmith3645
      @benjaminsmith3645 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      i’ve been getting the same ad over and over for months and i will never buy from their service because their ads are so damn annoying

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too, and also this whole issue of getting targeted ads - After you buy a product, like furniture, that you may never buy again!
      Why would any advertiser use YT? Im not in 99% of their demographic.
      Then there are the scam products, scam "make money online", tmi hygiene products, and throughout lockdown l got funeral plan ads multiple times a day for over a year, and yes, now l keep a mental of note of ...
      Avoid these companies, they despise their customers.

    • @monkeymonkeyman88
      @monkeymonkeyman88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What's your business called?

    • @monkeymonkeyman88
      @monkeymonkeyman88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also W business owner

    • @thepericlesof8449
      @thepericlesof8449 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@monkeymonkeyman88 not on this platform dude

  • @aydenberkebile3286
    @aydenberkebile3286 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    one thing i hate is that youtube will show you an ad when you finish the video and sometimes i don't realize it's the end of the video so i just watch an ad for no reason

  • @z-bird9548
    @z-bird9548 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If TH-cam gives me a 15 second unskippable ad i will never buy from that company ever again. I’ll actively seek out competitions because of that ad.

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That still technically means the ad worked since it makes you aware of the competitors and makes you go and find them and buy their products.

  • @AikiraBeats
    @AikiraBeats 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

    It feels like I’m watching more ads than I am watching the actual creator. I tend to watch video essays on my favorite Tv shows. Every ten minutes I’m watching double ad features, and this has been increasing for a while.

    • @stefanmadethen5359
      @stefanmadethen5359 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dont get me started on a midroll every 90 beginning seconds of a video

    • @mohammadn5591
      @mohammadn5591 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If TH-cam continues adding more ads, people will naturally leave, and then TH-cam will be like: What have we done wrong?

    • @dollzo
      @dollzo 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Get an adblocker

  • @ERRandDEL
    @ERRandDEL 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +169

    A 45% increase on pre rolls is an understatement in my experience. The yt app on my tv set will always throw me a pair of them over and over until I've backed out of the video enough to where they stop. Often, I'll get a pair of pre rolls that end and immediately get a second pair. Rewinding or fast forwarding gets a pair. Pausing the video for a few minutes gets a pair. The literal end of the video after the timer is up gets a pair before autoplay can begin counting down. Of course the next video gets a pair too. And this is all ignoring the sheer density of ads. every 4 minutes or so for me, and I tend to prefer having long videos on in the background. It's just too much work to babysit the mute button to not get blasted with the same dumb BK jingles, square space, invisiline and whey noise every four minutes.

    • @MisterAzathoth
      @MisterAzathoth 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I'm having the same exact experience. I get so many ads to the point it's unwatchable on TV, yet the same video on the phone app will have a fraction of those ads.

    • @michaezell4607
      @michaezell4607 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just use adblock on my computer. Unfortunately not on my phone however.
      I will continue to use adblock until such time as google's CEOs get it through their thick skulls that we're NOT going to put up with incessant advertising on the platform and we're not going to pay Google money for the privilege of watching ad free content.

    • @kevinwong_2016
      @kevinwong_2016 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@michaezell4607TH-cam vanced 💀
      Don't support TH-cam💀

    • @Cats_N_Doodles2018
      @Cats_N_Doodles2018 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ik this isn’t the newest comment but when using YT on the TV recently, my dad noticed that when you pause a video and leave it paused long enough, it starts showing and ad plus a QR code for it, it’s really wild!! It’s weird how much this site wants to suffocate us with advertisements

    • @Flipping-is-fun
      @Flipping-is-fun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's shocking how google and youtube are treating people now. We are tied up to the chair and force feed. That's abusing. Seems that their AI s are already attacking humanity. My advice is to remove those dollar signs from their eyes so that they can see reality.

  • @nickmurkel2469
    @nickmurkel2469 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember when they started putting ads on non-partner videos.
    I had a channel at the time with over 200 videos and deleted every single one of them over that.

  • @Rose-pe1uu
    @Rose-pe1uu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ive found a way around ads, and will continue to do so, simply because the amount of ads i was seeing was becoming completely unreasonable (you get less ads on tv, and at least those are at set intervals!). i dont mind watching ads normally but...i have limits as to how long im willing to watch them for, especially if they occur multiple times throughout something im watching randomly. on my end, it was reaching the point where youtube was basically unwatchable ( i was getting multiple runs of 5-10 unskippable ads at a time on a single video at one point, and it was a smaller creator even). knowing that the extreme increase in ads doesnt even benefit a good chunk of creators anyways...i feel a little bit less guilty about being forced to do this.
    but...here lately they've also implemented these popup windows to advertise their other features like premium, youtube music, or youtube tv ect. they happen very randomly, but most often on videos for bigger channels. and even if you click the button saying you're not interested, they'll just break and stay where they popped up. this wouldnt really be a problem to me personally...if they didnt partially block the video im watching. since they wont go away when you click on any of the buttons, this means i have to refresh the page im on to get them to go away. which is extremely annoying since this usually restarts the video. if anyone else has this issue, i recommend making use of the ability to copy the video URL at the current time.
    it feels like the more pushback we give on what we are willing to tolerate as users of this site, the more annoying youtube is getting to use. also yeah, when they first started pushing to shut down ad blockers and stuff there were a lot of people that just said to "just get premium or deal with it" but...that price hike actually coincided with them first planning on banning ad blockers. when they first started testing it out, there were several videos that i saw talking about it and they included the old prices for youtube premium in them, despite the fact that the price increase actually happened only about a month after they said they started testing ways to disable adblockers (and i was one of many hit during that initial testing phase). so...they tried to force people to buy premium to block ads and greatly increased the ad density, while also suddenly increasing the price for premium and....well i mean every company deserves to earn profits, but that just felt REALLY scummy to me. especially since the creators themselves obviously wouldnt be benefitting off of it directly. most people prolly wouldnt mind getting premium if they could actually be sure that it benefits the creators they watch, and not just the company that was obviously trying to make us pay for features we didnt want or need (myself included).

  • @Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan
    @Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +414

    As a TH-cam Premium user in Washington, it was $17.99 and they bumped it up to $22.99, and if I hadn't checked my spam folder I wouldn't have known that they increased the price. There definitely should've been a warning in the TH-cam app about this, but I didn't get one. Also I feel it's scummy that creators who aren't in the program get ads but no money from it, I think the piggy bank idea could work tho.
    Edit: I live in the USA in the NW.
    So please state your currency in the case that I'm getting triggered by wildly different pricing but it's only because of the world's many different forms of money
    Edit part 2: also I'm doing the family plan, but I've seen in this very comment chain or section or whatever that it's somehow cheaper. I have yet to see in USD it be as expensive or more expensive then the price I'm forced to pay, and idk how or why.
    Edit 3: is everyone saying that they get it cheaper getting a discount because of being a student or something? Just double checking

    • @logical_evidence
      @logical_evidence 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I pay $20 Australian a month.

    • @alfonsoserramartinez1344
      @alfonsoserramartinez1344 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I pay less than 2usd for a 6 person account
      Really is that expensive there?

    • @logical_evidence
      @logical_evidence 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alfonsoserramartinez1344 yep everything is Netflix is over $20 a month now too

    • @Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan
      @Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JR-gh8lp and then bumped up to $22.99. I'm on the Autism Spectrum, and if I were to get ads anymore I'd actually really not be able to handle it. Also the original reason I got it was because I was doing a no wheat and no sugar diet, and for some reason youtube kept giving me Reese's ads.

    • @lemondroid
      @lemondroid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The only good deal for TH-cam Premium account is the student one: 6.99pm,

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +228

    I literally changed my age to like 14, to just avoid some of the ads I keep telling Google or TH-cam to not show. It seems some ads do not show up at all but there ones that you cannot escape. The political ads seem to appear no matter what age you set yourself. I changed my age back since it didn't matter, the ads will target you no matter what.

    • @JP-ve7or
      @JP-ve7or 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      Interesting strategy. I keep getting horrible transphobic ads I can't seem to block permanently. When I try to see why I'm being targeted, it's usually because of my age (late 40s) 🙄

    • @williammashtalier479
      @williammashtalier479 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      ​@@JP-ve7orThe transphobic ads are really hurtful and I don't think TH-cam should be accepting money for these people to spread hatred.

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@JP-ve7orWhat does a transphobic ads entail? No brain dead circular reasoning please, this is not a Fascist Dictatorship where your word is writ.

    • @moonlit_ruffles
      @moonlit_ruffles 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      ​@@Blissblizzardim guessing transphobia, could be wrong tho

    • @upvoter8798
      @upvoter8798 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sounds odds youtube would let such an ad show if it the truth. Given how many times has someone took issue with youtube, that lead to all content creators being effected due to less ad income? For this sound like it would easily lead to another ad apocalypse as the content creators called it. Then again this is youtube. That seems to let the most questionable ad play, at least if it for a mobile game.

  • @Dailyfiver
    @Dailyfiver 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The “TH-cam premium lite” is actually a genius idea. I’d pay for that honestly.

  • @jwinnfield9192
    @jwinnfield9192 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have seen tons of inappropriate ads in videos where the subject matter itself makes advertising very awkward. Like true crime docs when victims are being quite rightly discussed in compassionate and empathetic terms with reverence… and then bang! Something totally inappropriate, in fact downright offensive starts blasting out.

  • @missdenisebee
    @missdenisebee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    I started paying for YT Premium a couple years ago, when I mostly used YT for asmr content…because there’s nothing quite like FINALLY feeling like you’re falling asleep, then having your ears violently assaulted by a DoorDash ad.

    • @solgaleo3533
      @solgaleo3533 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Or turning the volume up to blast some awesome music and getting blasted by a doordash ad

    • @joyhappiness
      @joyhappiness 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      good goy. pay for premium and take it!

    • @toolbaggers
      @toolbaggers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You know a TH-camr vid about ads is crap when they can't even mention there are ways to not see any. AD BLOCKING extensions!! Block ads and support creators directly with memberships, donations etc.

    • @neru1584
      @neru1584 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@toolbaggersyeah that's the thing, TH-cam is literally trying to like block users of ad extensions from even watching videos. So as if they aren't greedy enough they will try everything in your power to make you watch those ads lol

  • @apostrophe.t
    @apostrophe.t 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +383

    It's wild that you had 14 subs like two months ago and now you have over 61k. You're doing a great job, Zack!!

    • @ZackarySmigel
      @ZackarySmigel  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      Thanks so much! It truly is wild.

    • @Wafferuh
      @Wafferuh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@ZackarySmigel you got anotha one from me, see you at 1 million bro

    • @BlackMoga
      @BlackMoga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ZackarySmigel why do you use runescape music in every video?

    • @GoldenOwlEvents
      @GoldenOwlEvents 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      2 months?? That's impressive as hell.

    • @boegadi
      @boegadi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The algorithm went pretty wild here. The previous video showed up in my feed randomly and now this one too. Let me just add to the sub pile, it’s good stuff

  • @brittlebirt
    @brittlebirt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've noticed a huge change in the amount of ads I receive on long form content on TH-cam, SPECIFICALLY while watching on my TV. It's not nearly as bad on my phone. But for an hour of content, I can sometimes receive up to 10 minutes of ads. It's awful!

  • @bonnieleigh3070
    @bonnieleigh3070 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I agree. I am so distressed about the recent influx of ads, in addition I have left the dog videos on for my dog while I am at work, now when I come home the screen is blank?? I am going to replay your video and get the name of the competitor. I have been with TH-cam for years, upgraded to premium, but am so unhappy, thank you for your information.

  • @mundanepants
    @mundanepants 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    Aside from creators bot getting paid, the worst part is how you can't report obviously predatory/scam ads. Sometimes there isn't even an option for blocking a specific ad.
    It feels like the whole site is running on scam money, since even a huge chunk of creator sponsors are more or less shady

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      I've noticed that they removed the option to say you aren't interested in them or they are repetitive/ not relevant.

    • @toolbaggers
      @toolbaggers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You know a TH-camr vid about ads is crap when they can't even mention there are ways to not see any. AD BLOCKING extensions!! Block ads and support creators directly with memberships, donations etc.

    • @pepinyostep3592
      @pepinyostep3592 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When did they remove that??!! Omg

    • @disasterducky
      @disasterducky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@toolbaggersadblockers don't have a 100% reliability rate because TH-cam is determined to work around them and adblockers are being forced to evolve with that so there are gaps here and there

    • @lucinasstudygram
      @lucinasstudygram 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I used to report many ads because I wasn't interested. Well TH-cam/Google didn't like that and disabled my "adult account"; I cannot click on age restricted videos anymore, I get weird ads all over the place that are not specific and I'd need to send them a pic of my passport or credit card to be able to watch what I want. So, be careful what you do😂

  • @egullSZ
    @egullSZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    Sorry creators. Ads are repulsive. I was using ad blocker back when I only had to watch 1 skippable ad, now that I have to watch multiple I'm definitely not turning off my ad blocker.

    • @johnberger55
      @johnberger55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      snek approved

    • @maxschmidt666
      @maxschmidt666 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Underrated comment.
      Whoever watches ads is stupid, because its a waste of time.

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed. I've been running an ad blocker since the late 2000s. I'm not giving corporations more access to me to use psychological and sociological manipulation tactics that they've sunk billions of dollars into research to perfect to brainwash me more than they have already. It's just like... stay the fuck outta my head.

    • @kittenchristmas4194
      @kittenchristmas4194 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I only watch TH-cam if I'm using an adblocker now because TH-cam kept giving me the same, unskippable ad for some star wars branded soap or something every single time I clicked on a video.
      It didn't matter what the video was it showed the same thing. I miss the days when ads were just a small banner on the bottom of the screen you click to close.

  • @TboneWTF
    @TboneWTF 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When a utube ad interrupts my video I immediately click on the "mute" button to prevent the sound from working. I wait for the commercial to end, than pause the video I was watching and finally "unmute" the sound. My only solace is that I have prevented 50% of the advertisement from functioning. LOL. I do what I can.

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol

  • @audiotastic2234
    @audiotastic2234 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't know if anyone else has gotten this ad recently, but I keep getting this ad called FEET FINDER.

  • @murasamekuroha
    @murasamekuroha 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There are currently two 15 seconds ads EVERY SINGLE TIME when I click on a video. Even this video too. At the first time there are only a 5 sec ad and u can skip. Next they added 2 ads, one 15 secs and one 5 secs. Now they're literally adding and adding it together. Besides, there's also ads inserting in the video, and now ads are getting longer and longer🥹🤡

  • @FallisLife
    @FallisLife 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +181

    It’s happened on Spotify too. During 2021 I counted *seven* 10-30 second ads in a row before my next song played. I didn’t know that could even be feasible 😂

    • @biguattipoptropica
      @biguattipoptropica 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      When COVID lockdowns first began and new TH-cam videos slowed to a trickle, the ads were crazy. Dan Olson parodied them in his “contrapeneurs” video but on certain days ads were apparently so cheap there would be full scam movie ads (skippable, thankfully) at 90 minutes to two hours long. One day I saw a 3:39 unskippable ad and I gave up on TH-cam and watched Netflix the rest of the day.

    • @reflectingPastChoices
      @reflectingPastChoices 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@biguattipoptropica I saw a screenshot of a 4h ad once. (Or was it 40? It might have been 40).
      They're skippable of course but the target audience is toddlers who won't skip anything.

    • @ian2183
      @ian2183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nagh, been using a cracked spotify since like 2-3 years. No ads and i don't pay.

    • @AutoCannonSaysHi
      @AutoCannonSaysHi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Spotify is aggravatingly bad with ads.

    • @catburglar7116
      @catburglar7116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@reflectingPastChoicesone time I got an ad that was the entire first Lego movie! I thought it was actually kind of cool, I ended up watching some of it

  • @basiloregano
    @basiloregano 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Remember when they added or had the yellow bar to show when an ad was coming up so you could skip over it and go back to miss the ad. They removed that nice quality of life feature a while ago along with basically adding two ads to every time ad plays. I miss when TH-cam had one ad at beginning and one at the end that was nice.
    Also I love the audacity of TH-cam to play an ad on me while I had a video PAUSED for like 5 minutes. That only happened once but the audacity of it is mindboggling.
    It is also incredibly scummy to update TOS, again fucking over smaller creators that likely don't have the platform or influence to speak up about it or contacting bigger creators to speak out for them. They are basically saying you aren't big enough for us to worry about but we will take all of your money anyway.
    I hate that TH-cam has become cable with ad frequency, ad disrupting content, and the sameyness of them. If showing me ad for x product that I had no intention of buying didn't work, what do you think showing 10 to 20 of them every day will do? And yes the scam ads and general low quality ads are a big problem. TH-cam will basically let anyone advertise on their site in pursuit of profit.

  • @Space_Equestrian
    @Space_Equestrian 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    With youtubes latest push against adblockers,
    I decided to try and watch a TH-cam video without adblock... (using a different web browser than my main)
    This is how many ads i received while watching a 11:34 long video.
    1 unskippable ad + 1 skippable ad before video start.
    2 unskippable ads 1:26 in to the vid.
    2 unskippable ads 4:55 in to the vid.
    2 unskippable ads 8:37 in to the vid.
    1 skippable ad when the video finnished.
    I'm done, fuck this shit! I'm already in the process of making the internet a smaller part of my life, so if anything this is actually a big help, thanks TH-cam for ruining your platform!
    Video i watched for this experiment was: "Self-assembling material pops into 3D" by Steve Mould

    • @trevorwylie5882
      @trevorwylie5882 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i just have given up on youtube not worth the trouble anymore i did the same and it took half an hour to get through a 15 minuite video

  • @glennartstuffs-freejazzfil4730
    @glennartstuffs-freejazzfil4730 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +218

    Putting ads on videos without the permission of the creator was actually the thing that made me stop making TH-cam videos. The only solution to these issues is for the big TH-camrs to start organising and forming content creator unions. TH-cam won't listen to you unless you can get organised. TH-cam is like any other business or institution in our society; if you're not costing them money, they don't care. It's up to you, though. I no longer have any skin in that game (live like you're free already).

    • @hoej
      @hoej 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Isn't that what 'Standard' did a bit with Nebula?

    • @user35678_tt
      @user35678_tt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Il gonna send this to yt

    • @mobiusmind5573
      @mobiusmind5573 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately people don’t have the balls to try such a think. It’s like a revolution. Too many are benefiting but once the bottom class becomes larger that’s when people finally wake tf up

    • @svampebob007
      @svampebob007 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      " if you're not costing them money, they don't care"
      You mean the TB of data that get's uploaded to TH-cam every hour for free? in that sense you're wrong on all levels.
      Creators and Consumers cost TH-cam a ton of money every single second of watch time, that's why Google is trying to limit the money burning party that is TH-cam.
      I get that ads suck, but honestly I'm amazed that TH-cam has survived this long, the product that they deliver free unlimited upload at 1080p, 2160, 4k@60fps no matter how big or small you are.. Unlimited "download" speeds (with a 1Gbps line I get basically 600-700Mbps down from TH-cam even when I'm not logged in) That's insane, the cost is that the consumers have to watch ads ever half second...
      Other then the ad problem that I solve by just using adblockers, TH-cam is an insanely good product that is doing everything it can to give the "users" the best experience compared to the shit show of "free but limited" options out there, the tools that they give ANYBODY for free is why we have practically 0 competing product out there.
      "odysee, vevo, daylymotion"... nah brah consumers are all at TH-cam, and frankly they don't even force the consumer to "upgrade or make a free acount" to enjoy TH-cam.
      We are all out here complaining that TH-cam should be free? more expensive to Google? what exactly are we complaining about "They put ads on a free product? that I can enjoy without any other limitations"?
      Basically we sound like spoiled brats... I mean You guys sound like spoiled brats because every time I mention that I just use adblock people try to bitch about "huurr durrr your leeching of others". but "I just want one add no two because I don't really like ads... I don't care how expensive your servers are I just want one add" that sounds even worst to me.

    • @mobiusmind5573
      @mobiusmind5573 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@svampebob007 I feel like people like you give these companies leeway to do some shady ass business practices. ALL the costs you mentioned are a fraction of a fraction of what TH-cam is gaining off of ads and creators. Actually do research for the numbers before making such a statement, no one said TH-cam isn’t a good platform. But it’s mainly bc it’s so established and has a monopoly on the video industry ASLO bc of creators! only close contender is Spotify

  • @Parzival1709
    @Parzival1709 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    One thing I'd like to add to the quality of ads. Recently I've gotten thousands of erotically implied ads whether it be for a dating site to "meet older women" or some furry asmr mobile game. The problem I have with these kinds of ads is 1. that they are scams just like the other ads and 2. TH-cam is still largely a kids' platform. Are these sexually hinting ads being served to 10-year-old kids? If I had a kid, I wouldn't want them to see a full cleavage on a scam dating site ad on TH-cam.
    Even though the economical state of the world is not optimal at the moment, we have to hold TH-cam responsible for these things.

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      TH-cam needs to decide if it wants to be kid friendly or not.
      You can’t demonitise people for swearing and then show softcore porn & gambling on those very same video’s.
      I would prefer if they kept the kid stuff to youtube kids, but consistency with its own rules would be more important

    • @pozhiloy_d-class5192
      @pozhiloy_d-class5192 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      As a furry, we have NOTHING to do with this. These ads are usually just ragebait so weirded out users would click on the ad.

    • @Jinnyfir
      @Jinnyfir หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember when Planned Parenthood was doing ads. I was on mobile and on a retro cartoon kick and some videos were categorized as a TYKids video, so it paused while in the mini player mode. Here's the gross part:
      It was an "educational" ad about the pull out method and within the first 5 seconds they had a graphic depiction of lady bits and male bits and "release". You can find the full video on their channel, too.
      Educational or not, I was shocked. That kind of content should never be placed in an ad, especially on stuff for kids.

    • @Gliese710_
      @Gliese710_ หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yep. I get ads about ai porn while I’m scrolling shorts at school. Even the STUDENT accounts on our school laptops get ads like that.

    • @silliest-astro
      @silliest-astro 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      i got those kinds of ads when i was 11. it's gross.

  • @saw4232
    @saw4232 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have a personal conspiracy theory that TH-cam…actively “watches” you watch TH-cam and will spew out as many different ads as possible. For example if I’m actively watching TH-cam on my phone I’ll get ads that are either double unskipable ads (one is 5 seconds and the other 10 or 15 or both are 5 seconds) or I’ll get one 15 second unskipable ad. But if I play a video and step away then I get those 30 seconds to 5 minute ads (usually can skip). This doesn’t happen all the time, but it’s definitely consistent enough for me to notice

  • @pnutbtur17
    @pnutbtur17 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The irony is that there was no ad before this video

  • @jenni.mov_
    @jenni.mov_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    I would get the same game ad called “Royal Match”, no matter what video I watch. So I’m grateful that you’re addressing TH-cam’s ad issues.

    • @Draggobuttboi
      @Draggobuttboi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Same here, no amount of endorsements from celebrities I don't care about will make me play their lame bejeweled rip off when I can probably find a better one without microtransactions on F-droid or something.

    • @Thinginator
      @Thinginator 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There were a few months where half the ads I got were for O'Reiley's Auto Parts. I got so sick of those ads that for a long time I specifically avoided shopping there, lol. Their jingle still makes me reflexively cringe...

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Royal Match should be banned

    • @jenni.mov_
      @jenni.mov_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Draggobuttboi exactly! Plus if you do decide to download and play it, you’ll still get more ads when you’re playing the game. Ads from TH-cam and ads from the game. We’re constantly have to keep watching ads, that aren’t even interesting anyways

  • @hhhhgaming458
    @hhhhgaming458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +490

    i love how youtube puts tons of ads on non-monetized content, not to mention that the ads have no relation to what you watch whatsoever even though they are "customized just for you"

    • @pinobluevogel6458
      @pinobluevogel6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      TH-cam has the most irrelevant ads, its honestly worse than TV ads. (even though I haven't seen those in over 15 years, so it might be worse now)

    • @michellelehky2374
      @michellelehky2374 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Facts. I have yet to see an ad for something I'd ever buy.

    • @madlad635
      @madlad635 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      I keep getting Spanish ads even though don't know Spanish

    • @pinobluevogel6458
      @pinobluevogel6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@madlad635 Por favor, vamos a la playa. Dineros .. cervecas!
      No seriously, this is rather weird, might have to do something with your location being wrong.

    • @Loki1095
      @Loki1095 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@madlad635 personalised ads gone wrong

  • @draigg0
    @draigg0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    I really love it when I'm trying to watch cute bird videos with my mum and I get an un-skippable horror movie ad 🙃
    It's really scummy as well because with the increase in ads they're clearly trying to push/ force everyone to get premium
    By the way guys I mostly use mobile so if you know about any ad blockers that work on either android or iOS feel free to share with the class

    • @scpatl4now
      @scpatl4now 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      or use an ad blocker

    • @draigg0
      @draigg0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@scpatl4now can't really get that in the app/ on mobile (or if you can pls let me know I guess) and I can't be bothered to watch stuff on desktop all the time

    • @DanknDerpyGamer
      @DanknDerpyGamer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah, noticing this more and more lately - I thought they had addressed that after people complained years ago. 0_o

    • @draigg0
      @draigg0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@DanknDerpyGamer I guess not 😭 they're probably hoping to annoy everyone into subscribing to premium

    • @A-Clear_View
      @A-Clear_View 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just using that blocker they’re literally free

  • @kezyka6775
    @kezyka6775 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Went from TH-cam: Broadcast yourself to TH-cam: Advertise scams

  • @user-si7lv4hj2h
    @user-si7lv4hj2h 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i don' mind creators including promotions in their own videos because you can skip them if you want to, but those annoying unskippable ads IN THE MIDDLE of a video are ridiculous

  • @frag2
    @frag2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +257

    I've probably lost over 3k to the ypp wait time, I completely agree that a piggy bank system needs to be implemented for new creators.

    • @bagel1
      @bagel1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      FRAG

    • @frag2
      @frag2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bagel1 WSG BAGEL WHERE YOU BEEN

  • @ethianhuynh4901
    @ethianhuynh4901 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I hate ads before videos so much that I will repeatedly close and open the video until the ads disappear

    • @Matt-jc2ml
      @Matt-jc2ml หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just use adblock

    • @ethianhuynh4901
      @ethianhuynh4901 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Matt-jc2ml i have an adblocker on my pc but when i’m on mobile i use the app

    • @Matt-jc2ml
      @Matt-jc2ml หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ethianhuynh4901 you can use the browser for adblock. Lots of mobile browsers have adblock. Theres even an official browser from adblock

    • @aiodensghost8645
      @aiodensghost8645 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ethianhuynh4901ReVanced

    • @aiodensghost8645
      @aiodensghost8645 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ethianhuynh4901revance on Android (*Chefs kiss)

  • @Costlee_14m
    @Costlee_14m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    40 seconds of unskipable ad is normal for me now at least on TV

  • @teresaweber5366
    @teresaweber5366 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I usually use youtube to fall asleep, as I listen to some stories. But lately that has become impossible, as i get 2 ads every 3 minutes. I counted, not kidding. Every. 3. Minutes.

  • @GreatWhiteCityBuilder
    @GreatWhiteCityBuilder 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    i really like how your thumbnails and titles compliment eachother. congrats on your much deserved success!

    • @ZackarySmigel
      @ZackarySmigel  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Thank you so much!!

    • @MrSmokey247
      @MrSmokey247 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@ZackarySmigel Bit of feedback on that though. Thumbnail colour scheme and graphic is suggestive. Thought the video was going to be about ads being NSFW or something like that. Good video nonetheless but does create a false expectation going in.

    • @Bwalston910
      @Bwalston910 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@MrSmokey247I think that was the point, it intrigued you into watching the video then subverted your expectations.

    • @MrSmokey247
      @MrSmokey247 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Bwalston910 That's clickbait

    • @Bwalston910
      @Bwalston910 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MrSmokey247 Welcome to TH-cam, enjoy your stay.

  • @Ducreuxs
    @Ducreuxs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    We predominantly watch TH-cam through our roku device on our tv, and we ended up getting premium due to the absolutely insane amount of ads playing during videos and the extremely inappropriate ads running on our restricted children's profile. On a 30 minute video, ads would run every 5 minutes, then drop to every 60 seconds! Many of these ads would be unskippable as well. Our breaking point was an ad for a hentai video game playing while our toddler was trying to watch Blippi. The fact that creators get demonized for silly reasons while TH-cam shows sexually explicit content to my children is infuriating.

    • @rogerwilco2
      @rogerwilco2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed. And also the ton of “get rich quick” and health scam adds.

  • @davidh99168
    @davidh99168 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    TH-cam needs to us leave feedback and review each ad.

  • @WillWatches
    @WillWatches 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had that exact same idea for the piggy bank system, especially in circumstances like your own when there is a viral video, I was thinking like a 90 day buffer piggy bank to allow for viral videos, or if a certain amount of views are achieved within a short timespan it activates.
    And the individual subscriptions to creators like twitch is a great idea, I'd even say you could go as low as 50 cents per creator a month, with a price so low the volume would really add up for creators and if someone only wanted to do it for one creator they love its insignificant to them.

  • @ladripper47874
    @ladripper47874 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    If TH-cam only did one change, I'd like it to be able to see titles of deletet/removed/"unavailable" Videos in playlists. I hate having a 1000 Video Song playlist and about 100 of them not being available and have no clue which ones they are so that I can replace them

  • @GoblinVolume
    @GoblinVolume 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I used to actually let ads play in full for the creators I liked because I was a marketing student interested in the monetisation, and supporting them however I could, even faking a CTR sometimes because I heard it paid more. I was broke and couldn’t pay Patreon benefits or anything, so I wanted to help. Now I’d be luckily to be able to get even remotely the same length of VIDEO that I do ads, I’ll get a 30 second ad on a seven second video posted 13 years ago, and not a cent of that goes to the creator.

  • @MrKsan05
    @MrKsan05 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    The day I downloaded an ad blocker was a day when my two young children and my wife was in the living room with me and I loaded a TH-cam video that jumped to an adult porn ad. I was shocked and my wife was angry accusing me of doing that. I said never again.

    • @mohammadn5591
      @mohammadn5591 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you sure you used a legit Adblocker to actually remove the ads?

    • @MrKsan05
      @MrKsan05 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mohammadn5591 What a stupid question.

    • @siegwardofcatarina100
      @siegwardofcatarina100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What blocker do you use

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mohammadn5591I think he’s saying that he downloaded an adblocked after/because of this event. Rather than the adblocker having caused this to happen.

    • @QueueWithACapitalQ
      @QueueWithACapitalQ หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is a bot/troll trying to make adblockers look bad

  • @promptedleek4829
    @promptedleek4829 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    as someone who watches youtube constantly, I hate just how aggresively youtube pushes out ads

  • @ZenobiaSE
    @ZenobiaSE 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    I relate so heavily to this. Like lord that MrBeast scam you showed for a quick second in the beginning; I have gotten it like at least 40 times while using youtube. I turn off all tracking possible so I get a lot of just weird ads, but the scam ones and the random mobile games truly drive me insane. Excellent video, hoping it will be a successful one for you just like your last one! :)

    • @GaleneIanthe
      @GaleneIanthe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The MrBeast scam ads are especially insidious given that he regularly does charity work. The first time I saw one, I wondered if it might have actually been legit. I'm not a viewer of his channel, but the ad didn't exactly fit with what I know about how he does money give-aways, and that style of ad always sends up red flags for me. I can definitely see people getting fooled by that one.

    • @dan_asd
      @dan_asd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah i get lots of weird ads because of that too, and if i were to say what i saw my comment would be auto-deleted

    • @ZenobiaSE
      @ZenobiaSE 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@GaleneIanthe yes exactly! I also don’t watch MrBeast but aren’t like most his viewers children as well? So it’s so especially disgusting with those ads being everywhere on the platform, makes me so sad to think that these kids get fooled by a scam like that

  • @Beardqt
    @Beardqt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    It's a nice feeling for some of the audience to see a potentially very popular video creator come up so quickly, glad to be here

  • @zalybrainlessgenius503
    @zalybrainlessgenius503 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This has been a problem since 2018. My 2 SECONDS LONG video had an ad because "copyrighted material spotted". Insane.

  • @brendanfalvy1281
    @brendanfalvy1281 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ads are meantal too. I have been getting crazy AI ads scamming shitty knives, "lighters" that look dangerous, drones that "the government doesn't want you to know about". Some wild shit. All hot garbage. Even real companies have some weird AI trash. A Dove ad with some weird body positivity in AI narrative just to justify an ad made with AI. Nuts.

  • @datboi6415
    @datboi6415 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    5.2k views, 2.6k likes, 651 comments. What a ratio, what a channel. Thanks for the engaging content. Exactly what youtube connoisseurs been looking for

    • @ZackarySmigel
      @ZackarySmigel  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Thanks so much for the kind words! That's the goal. I love making this as much as a conversation as possible!

    • @TheOriginalDuckley
      @TheOriginalDuckley 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ZackarySmigelhave you happened to notice a discrepancy in the audio volumes in the ads as well? Sometimes I have to turn my volume so high just to hear something in a video and right after I turn up the volume an ad will play and it’s extremely loud. Much louder than the actual video on full volume. It’s super annoying. Just wondering if was just me lol.

    • @chiefnewo
      @chiefnewo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheOriginalDuckley It's not just you and it's not just TH-cam, we've been experiencing that one since the dawn of ads on television. Nothing like watching a nice quiet movie and then getting blasted by ads because you didn't manage to lower the volume in time for the ad break!

  • @uberlord983
    @uberlord983 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I think the worst of the worst part about TH-cam's ad situation is that its basically holding the content creators hostage. Because they know damn well that if they have to revise their ad situation, they aren't taking shit for damage, the creators on their platform are.

  • @Zman44444
    @Zman44444 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Second video I’ve watched. Subbed. Great content dude

  • @akvmamusic
    @akvmamusic หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i open this video and get two unskippable ads, this must be juicy

  • @Seed
    @Seed 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +285

    Yes. I am annoyed at the monetisation system. My channel's monetisation is still broken despite being in the partner program/Monetised.. It earns literally nothing, not even one penny.

    • @Excitementgaming
      @Excitementgaming 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      first reply

    • @latesleaves6759
      @latesleaves6759 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jeliam06your grammar styl 😅

    • @drorbenuliel9280
      @drorbenuliel9280 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wow you are an old account

    • @zappyapp
      @zappyapp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      you have 1 video?

    • @pinobluevogel6458
      @pinobluevogel6458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I don't see how a channel with 1 video is ever going to get monetized, but you do you.