You Drive the YouTube Experience
Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we've been working with select partners to improve YouTube's presentation of advertising on their videos in a manner that brings you creative, compelling content and should also increase revenue flow to artists and content owners.
So what's new? Today we're offering select partners the ability to incorporate YouTube InVideo ads into their content. These are animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a video. If you're interested by what you see there, clicking on the overlay launches a deeper interactive video ad that we think is relevant and entertaining. (The video you were watching is temporarily paused.) If you choose not to click on the overlay, it will simply disappear, so that you're in full control of your YouTube experience.
So keep an eye out for this new feature, and please do send us your suggestions and feedback. As always, we're looking to improve the experience with you in mind.
Yours,
The YouTube Team
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Oooooh interactive video that's relevant AND entertaining? I'm in.
me, too!! How do you do it???
Do not want.
where is it? post a link
I agree with mrmachado - can you post a link to a clip that has it? I saw this mentioned in a news article on news.google.com but would like to see it in action. I hope the ads are cool, interesting, and relevant to me.
Does that earn money for the person who created the video?
Nevermind, I found one. :-)
This nytimes.com article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22google.html
links to a sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_rDSvOSnY
Kind of cool you can see it coming with the little yellow mark on the progress bar. Also interesting if you move the progress control back before the yellow mark it doesn't show you the ad again. Given that the guy in the video was using hairspray the ad was fitting. :-)
I'm unsubscribing from anyone who has ads in their videos, and if everyone has ads, then I'll just find a site that doesn't.
From what I gather, the sites "selected" to participate are those who regularly get high numbers of viewers. That wouldn't be me, thankfully. I also agree that I would unsubscribe to any channel that carries ads.
Its was bound it happen. Nothing is free.
I'm okay with this, but eventually it would get boring. I wouldn't subscribe to anyone who does this, but it wouldn't stop me from watching one of their videos. It'd be great though to get money for the videos you've made.
sounds dumb,,,, if i wanted to see advertisement,,, i'd just watch tv,,,
gawd advertising is in everything now. first it wuz comerrcials in the middle of my shows and now the middle of my fav online videos. i shall unsubscribe to any1 who would do that.
Oh god ... that sounds awful. Ads next to the video, OK. But inside? No thanks.
You know that one scene in The Simpsons Movie where there is a fake ad at the bottom of the screen, and they make a joke out of it? Keep that in mind.
Oh great, overlays that cause choppy video playback for us without the latest processing power.
You guys ripped off VideoEgg. What happened to innovation? Hopefully VideoEgg has a patent.
For marketers that's a little unsatisfying. There should be ads in the beginning of the video! Fullscreen!
I wish the people in charge of running youtube were in charge of running america
If youtube starts with accessory advertising, while the video is playing, i leave youtube !
If youtube starts with accessory advertising, while the video is playing, i leave youtube !
And how does one become a YouTube partner?
Will you share the money with the producers of the videos ?
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share the money with the producers will be great!
http://focsa.tumblr.com/
I think it's retarded. Almost as bad as pop-ups. Keep your ads on the side of the video please. Not in it!
Let Jesari and Galipoka back in.
Ads at the begining of the video, at the end, around the player but not on the video please.
This is the end of youtube
Wouldn't that be a breach of the video makers rights? Therefore you'll have to put the said ad before or after the chosen video.
DO NOT WANT!
As a video maker, i have to say this practice is disgusting.... YouTube would take copyrighted contents off the network, because viacom or whatever asks, but whn it's user copyrights, they dont give a damn !!! !!!! !!!
These videos are made by us, for us, and should not see they creative content impeded !!
Imagine I decided to place my logo on a disney film !! do you think they would like that ??
Place the ads around the video You Tube, or we will revolt !
When did google start copying other companies' technology while shamelessly claiming that they invent it? Is youtube a technology company at all? (youSuck) (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22google.html)
i think its a good idea people will see the advertisements more often and they cant really complain about it annoying them or being intrusive to the video because you can manually click it away easily.
Good job YouTube
I haven't noticed this up to now. If it is up to me I would recommend to put a advertisement clip of 10-15 seconds at the start of every video. I could live with this.
An interruption of the video (maybe at a very stupid moment in the middle of a sentence) or an overlay of 20 % is not such a good idea as you never know when this will happen (what's the sense to post a slideshow and you can see only 80 % of the picture and the best part is lost in advertisement).
Maybe you could place a field below the video and the advertisement just appears there instantly without damaging the view of our videos.
So I say NO for pausing a video and NO for a 20 % overlay. But I say YES for an advertisement clip in front of my videos (maybe you could let it set up by the user to chose one of these methods in the profile).
I HATE this type of advertising. I find it so irritating when i'm on break.com and I get the same thing, and I miss something that's on the bottom of the screen.
So many idiots commenting here. YouTube didn't claim to invent the ads. And they are "offering" the ads to "select partners" if they want to use them. They didn't say they were putting them on every video - but so what if they did in the end? They're hosting these videos. They need to make money. ... Unless you idiots want to host these millions of videos for free.
It's like the internet has taken away people's ability to read. So many idiots.
Please post links to example videos.
I think it's a good idea, as long as you keep the ads close able.
actually, i don't like ads in videos. i'd really prefer it, if you just offer a paid account.
let those who dont' care about ads watch the ads and let all the others pay - let's say 3-5$ per month and everything is fine.
as long as the situation doesn't evolve to the point where ads are forced on all videos, there should be no problems.
Okay, if it is just up to the YT partnes (since we hard they will get something from the cake) then I don't care. If it is up to my videos then I want to decide between different types of advertisement and I would definately prefer something at the beginning of my videos as the viewer MUST see the short advertisement(plus point for YT to broadcast the advertisement) and my video would NOT getting interrupted or damaged by an overlay or advertisement stop somewhere in the video. But also I haven't ever seen this kind of advertisement here nor I can find a partner using it right now - an example could be fine.
DO what you like with your partners, consult other video makers on advertising content before going near their videos.
I personally don't like the idea. I've elaborated in a video here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MfKIVQ4buEU
You're screwing yourselves. I never click on ANY ads, anywhere, and this will not induce me to start doing so.
This is what other video sites have that YouTube doesn't, and that's what makes YouTube so different. I don't know about this idea.
I knew the team at Google would find a way to screw this up. Goodbye, YouTube, it was fun while it lasted.
So many idiots commenting here. YouTube didn't claim to invent the ads. And they are "offering" the ads to "select partners" if they want to use them. They didn't say they were putting them on every video - but so what if they did in the end? They're hosting these videos. They need to make money. ... Unless you idiots want to host these millions of videos for free.
It's like the internet has taken away people's ability to read. So many idiots.
I posted this underneath Blunty3000's video about this and he said I had a good point so I thought you should maybe read this as well.
Even if you can click it to close right away, I could still imagine that it would damage the beauty of some videos. For your vlogging its not a big issue, its just your awesome shirt thats covered up. But if I'm watching a beautiful intro of a dark video and a girl standing in the rain beginning to cry with very touching music (of the poster himself of course), I'd really be pretty annoyed if an orange ad trying to sell me umbrellas would popup over the video, even if only the bottom 20 pixels.
I now understand you can choose to monetize videos, but wouldn't that mean that the director of the above video would have to cancel monetizing of his best (and most viewed) work? So I the "regular" ad still stays as an option for those kind of videos.
As someone that has spent significant money on producing videos ($10,000+) to post on YouTube, I find it alarming that you won't be sharing "in-video" advertising with the people that actually own the content.
I can't complain entirely because our videos have been watched almost 900,000 times here and I appreciate the awareness it generates for us but....
.. if YouTube is going to profit from "in-video/intrusive" ads, you should be kicking some of that revenue back to the owners of the content.
Without content YouTube would not exist, so why not reward the people that spend the time and money to produce video that you profit from?
In the end what choice do we have?
I hope the Google/YouTube team considers it's options very carefully here, because people will simply stop posting here and find other places to post their video content...
If you want to profit from my content, pay me too for allowing you the right to feature the content I paid to create.
-incredible new 21st century "Broadcast" technology provided by YouTube and Google at a cost of tens of millions of bandwidth $$ per month, that allows you to even become essentially a TV Station on or off YouTube.com with embedding tools???.........give me a break ad complainers. YouTube and Google need to get some ROI or else all of this goes away. Let me say Thanks to You/Goog for the work, dedication and the imagination that viral video can make the world a better place.....
Your pilot Revenue Sharing program is failing because it is being badly run.
It is based on labor intensive YouTube employee cronyism and discretion, (where rules are created and bent to suit YouTube employee's "friends").
It needs a strict set of rules that permit everyone to automatically join the scheme if they meet the required criteria. It needs to automatically and permanently remove people who break those rules regardless of who's "friend" they are so that people are discouraged from cheating advertizers by gaming the system.
As it stands, talk of your Partnership (more like Patronage) Program is wasting everyone's time. It is just a way for hippy YouTube employees to hand out money to their "friends".
timespublishing -- TV stations pay licensing fees for programming, then place advertising around it. Everyone appreciates what Youtube is all about, but your comment is way off. Embedding ads in the videos themselves is alot different than other monetization techniques (side text links etc)... YouTube makes what $15,000,000 per month in revenue, plus supplementing Google.com with video search engine listings with advertising etc. so your comment is a little mis-guided.
If YouTube wants to embed ads in videos (partners or not), pay the people that produced and own the content. End of discussion, or make an open-ended solution that everyone can participate in and not play favorites.
The videos concerned with this operation are those proposed by the partners of YouTube (one counts a thousand of it today) who are for example Disney, NBC, CBS, the BBC or even Time Warner. The advertisers will in addition pay 20 dollars for thousand view, whether the video is completely viewed or not, which will be then divided between YT and its partner to an undisclosed percentage.
According to Associated Press, Shiva Rajaraman, director of YouTube, the in-house tests showed that more than 70 % of people zapped a video when preceded by a publicity.
Conversely, less than 10 % decide to close it when there is a publicity in overlay, which can in any event being closed by X in the corner.
This decision also will offer advertisers to have more flexibility, added Rajaraman, because they are not constrained to post an advertising video of 15 or 30 seconds. The advertising format chosen by YouTube will be able to encourage the users, free of their actions, to view for example a two minutes clip for a film.
Remain that video ads seem most lucrative, attracting consequently the brands already used to broadcast their spots on tv. The latter will be adapted according to the geo-location of the user, the hour, the day, or the kind of video which will follow (music, sports, etc).
The stake is thus double for Google: initially, it will be a question of making profitable and of justifying the 1.6 billion invested in YouTube, and in the second time, to avoid being prosecuted for copyrights and offer instead their platform a source of revenue.
-incredible new 21st century "Broadcast" technology provided by YouTube and Google at a cost of tens of millions of bandwidth $$ per month, that allows you to even become essentially a TV Station on or off YouTube.com with embedding tools???.........give me a break ad complainers. YouTube and Google need to get some ROI or else all of this goes away. Let me say Thanks to You/Goog for the work, dedication and the imagination that viral video can make the world a better place.....
I guess it's sadly all about the money :(
I guess it's sadly all about the money :(
HOLA MI NIÑO LO AMO Y GRACIAS X COMPARTIR TODOS LO MEMENTOS LINDOS Y NINCA ME QUIERO SEPARAR DE USTD
stupidist idea ever, you guys sold out quicker than the wii. both of you, the guys who invented youtube, and google, who bought it and is whoring it out, poor internet...we hardly knew ye
well as long as its free and there isnt a whole video b4 the video im fine
It wrecks your youtube video! Terrible TERRIBLE idea!
-incredible new 21st century "Broadcast" technology provided by YouTube and Google at a cost of tens of millions of bandwidth $$ per month, that allows you to even become essentially a TV Station on or off YouTube.com with embedding tools???.........give me a break ad complainers. YouTube and Google need to get some ROI or else all of this goes away. Let me say Thanks to You/Goog for the work, dedication and the imagination that viral video can make the world a better place.....
Please start a premium service, maybe we can pay not to see the ads?
I don't think people should complain because YouTube needs money to operate. Unless you plan on paying to use this service, you shouldn't complain about advertising.
as long as you have a choice of watching the ad or not i´m ok with it
i hope you'll have the option to click it out. but it's going to be annoying.
Bad... Stick with Banner ads. One you're ruining users videos, TWO who really clicks on ads anyways? I dont, I dont even notice their there cause I dont personally click on them. Three, if this isnt' an option of us saying yes or no to this, make this optional to our videos then, cause I know I personally would be ticked off at such a large spot of my video taken up for however long
The internet is a fantastic way to find out about things and to find places selling them. But if you're looking for car parts you look on a car parts website. While youtube has to make money somehow, the absolute minimum intrusion should be followed. Any in-video adverts are by their nature intrusive and I do not approve of them.
Are these ads visible to viewers worldwide or are they restricted to US viewers?
i personally don't like it that much, but it's better than an advertisement movie playing in front of the video you want to see, making you wait for the whole thing to start.
i don't like it, but it could be worse.
I think this will be ok IF the ad is more towards the end of the video rather than the beginning. I still think it's a good idea and not a huge inconvenience. =]
It sucks but it could be worse.
Bad idea.
If ad is intrusive, I will not click it and will never EVER use the shop/advertised service.
Thanks YouTube! Let us know when (and where) we can sign up for this feature!).
I intensely dislike this idea and here's why: assuming it goes over well with the partners, it will happen on all videos. I don't imagine that I, as a content producer, will be given any say in that which I am forcibly endorsing.
might i suggest running the ad under the video rather than on top of it...
only if AdBlockPlus (extension for Firefox) can block these too :)
This is a poor business model...I think you will find a rather large decrease in users of YouTube in the future. I predict Youtube will try this for a while and when you realize the huge amount of people that stop using YouTube you will eventually abandon advertising like this. It does give opportunity to other video upload companies for rather large growth potential from people switching to other places to interact and upload commercial free videos.
Everyone understands the profit motive but there are less intrusive ways to generate revenue streams than something like this...really reevaluate this strategy.
adds =.= *sigh* don't people go to youtube not to watch adds? >_> I don't really see anything really that good about it... maybe 20% wont be that bad..
To keep YouTube free of video, set up a partner like moguling.com to commercialize same content but reside on domain and blog that can be manipulated until their heart or pocketbook is content.
oops ...free of advertising...da!!!!
oops ...free of advertising...da!!!!
I fear this will become an annoyance. Is there a way to turn that "feature" off?
As MuseumPod said, you screwed up. By the time you realize how corruptly greedy and crassly commercial your move is perceived, the YouTube is DOWN the TUbes. I quit, and will work AGAINST your continuation on any format, you sold out Free speech, or to quote Dictator Bush: "Money trumps Peace." Enjoy the War, the Revolution is here, you just joined the wrong side, so death to your business, TREASONOUS MONEYGRUBBERS.
You see Google purchased YouTube a while back and needed to justify the over inflated purchase price they paid for YouTube. This is an attempt to justify the purchase in hopes to generate the revenue they hoped YouTube would provide for Google. It is hard to imagine with the amount of visitors YouTube receives on a daily bases they could not come up with a more innovative revenue stream than this...
You see Google purchased YouTube a while back and needed to justify the over inflated purchase price they paid for YouTube. This is an attempt to justify the purchase in hopes to generate the revenue they hoped YouTube would provide for Google. It is hard to imagine with the amount of visitors YouTube receives on a daily bases they could not come up with a more innovative revenue stream than this...
MP, What is your angle? World peace I suppose?
Sounds good, i just wish i could see a ad and see what it is like
You see Google purchased YouTube a while back and needed to justify the over inflated purchase price they paid for YouTube. This is an attempt to justify the purchase in hopes to generate the revenue they hoped YouTube would provide for Google. It is hard to imagine with the amount of visitors YouTube receives on a daily bases they could not come up with a more innovative revenue stream than this...
You see Google purchased YouTube a while back and needed to justify the over inflated purchase price they paid for YouTube. This is an attempt to justify the purchase in hopes to generate the revenue they hoped YouTube would provide for Google. It is hard to imagine with the amount of visitors YouTube receives on a daily bases they could not come up with a more innovative revenue stream than this...
i think it would be very irritating especially if it blocked a important part of the video
You see Google purchased YouTube a while back and needed to justify the over inflated purchase price they paid for YouTube. This is an attempt to justify the purchase in hopes to generate the revenue they hoped YouTube would provide for Google. It is hard to imagine with the amount of visitors YouTube receives on a daily bases they could not come up with a more innovative revenue stream than this...
For everyone asking where they can see the ad, go watch a video called "Ax Murderer" by Smosh, it comes on 15 seconds into the video.
Hey YouTube, I prefer this 10x over pre- and post-roll ads. Thank you for not going with those...
I think it would be ok but better if it came before the video started so you would click on a video and it would be their and then you just click it off or click it and there you go.
I am firmly against advertizing obscuring ANY part of the video itself. I think having an ad NEXT to the video would actually be more effective, encouraging the viewer to open it in a separate tab for later viewing while the video continues to play. Otherwise, if the video would have to be paused, I'm sure most viewers will tend to just ignore the ads, since the video will always have priority for them (at least that's how I would behave). So, think carefully, YouTube, and don't ruin a good thing for your users!
THE ADS SHOULD BE AT THE END OF THE VIDEO...
AlanDooshewitz (1 hour ago)
Tay is Gay.
Yay for Tay!
He does not care for T&A.
When Tay sits down
To make a song,
All he can think about is dong!
And Tay is colored.
That's a plus!
He gets promoted
Tho' he sucks!
But one fine day,
Tay will be gone;
No one will hear his stupid song.
And where will he have gone, you ask?
FLUSHED down with all the other BLACKS!
THAT WAS A COMMENT LEFT BY A WHITE MALE TO THIS VIDEO("Love" Original Song by KOOBY feat. Tay Zonday)
http://www.youtube.com/AlanDooshewitz
(HIS ACCOUNT SHOULD BE DELETED FOR THAT ACORRDING TO YOUR common-sense rules!!)
6.We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech which contains slurs or the malicious use of stereotypes intended to attack or demean a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or nationality.
You said it yourself in your announcement...
"If you're interested by what you see there, clicking on the overlay launches a deeper interactive video ad that we think is relevant and entertaining."
Great... if WE are interested in what we see. You can obtain the same objective by placing your ad outside of the video. We're not naive... and a banner ad does the same task as you are trying to achieve. But, instead you taint our videos with advertisements, many of which may be totally against what the posted owner likes or dislikes. You have no right to cover their video with anything. Some people here perceive what they post as art. Video is art. Film is art. And for you to paint over their artwork is a complete atrocity.
Place your ads somewhere else.
You said it yourself in your announcement...
"If you're interested by what you see there, clicking on the overlay launches a deeper interactive video ad that we think is relevant and entertaining."
Great... if WE are interested in what we see. You can obtain the same objective by placing your ad outside of the video. We're not naive... and a banner ad does the same task as you are trying to achieve. But, instead you taint our videos with advertisements, many of which may be totally against what the posted owner likes or dislikes. You have no right to cover their video with anything. Some people here perceive what they post as art. Video is art. Film is art. And for you to paint over their artwork is a complete atrocity.
Place your ads somewhere else.
If you can just extend the media box, and have the ad appear under the player instead intruding on the actual video, then that would be a lot better.
Please don't taint the videos, there are other areas of the screen that can be used for advertisments
I only have 39,000+ total views on my youtube account. Please don't ruin the youtube experience. I really don't want to have to upload all my videos to a different site. But I will. I'm not going to foist ads on my viewers in this manner and I have no interest in watching videos with ad overlays. Thank you.
a little glitch with the new advertising videos on the wii, u cant pause and theres no ad [smoshs axe murderer]
please stop this.
If you want to see what this will probably look like go to Metacafe.The difference is they share the ad revenue with the video creators.They pay $100 when a video reaches 20,000 views then prorated up from there. Maybe YouTube would like to do the same ???
Please don't do this! It will ruin the experience of watching a video. It's both intrusive and distracting. Banner ads will work just as well, if people are interested in a product they will click on the banner. Advertising is fine as long as it doesn't prevent the viewer from thoroughly enjoying a video.
that sucks.. youtube was fun but now its just becoming shit to use. there are many other sites there which are providing high quality streams with no length limitation either.. so why ad advertising to a video?! ruins the entire experience...
Way to take a great site and flush it down the toilet! As if we didnt have to deal with enough advertising. Oh and by the way, those little "overlays" are extremely annoying. I refuse to watch any videos that forces ads down my throat.
Good luck YouTube. Please don't ruin this site with annoying ads.
Way to take a great site and flush it down the toilet! As if we didnt have to deal with enough advertising. Oh and by the way, those little "overlays" are extremely annoying. I refuse to watch any videos that forces ads down my throat.
Good luck YouTube. Please don't ruin this site with annoying ads.
I've seen this on metacafe and it's WAAAAY too distracting, and I don't like the idea of having my content hijacked in order for corporations to sell people junk they don't need.
If there are ads before or during the videos, I will end my YouTube membership and never come back to the site. It's just that simple.
I have no sympathy for idea that Google needs to make money on their investment in YouTube. Google did not pay $1.65 billion for a site that plays ads during their videos. YouTube did not acquire millions of users by playing ads during their videos. If the ads are still there in a week then I will cancel my membership and leave YouTube.
please dont do this google.
its a really really bad idea, as you can probably tell from 99% of the comments below.
we are constantly bombarded with companies trying to cram their advertising into our heads. youtube is currently a true sanctuary for original and unadultered entertainment. with many hollywood "blockbusters" having their scripts changed around a company for product placement ( McDonalds in "The Weather Man" etc etc etc etc!! ) why take away the truly first and revolutionary form of independent media that youtube has so far allowed!
Is it not obvious simply why YouTube has had so much success until now?
Anyways, i would hate to use so far lesser media content sites as i really like it here.
But Whatever,
Maybe you could get Daxflame to wear a Pepsi tie or something..
My 2 cents:
Doesn't matter what you guys do, YouTube in my opinion is going down the drains anyway. I used to click the videos tab to watch all the "higher rated content" ANd now, everything is just junk, people some how getting their stuff up to the top like it is a contest. The way people setup their thumbnails for their videos. Youtube honestly was once very and i mean very addictive, these days i find it just a site i come to when im bored, used to be my home page.
So to do this new advertisement idea i believe will absolutely fuel the bomb around here and explode bringing this site to a crawl.
Instead of concentrating on how to annoy people and make millions, start thinking of screening content, proper management of the videos and get rid of the massive amount of spam on here.
One thing this site reminds me of instead of a regular ole site to post your home videos it reminds me of that old show called "Star search" Everyone thinking they'll become famous off this. We have talent around here damn straight...
My rant is done, best of luck but i doubt it'll work guys, almost positive, there has to be better ways but first concentrate on management of videos please
My 2 cents:
Doesn't matter what you guys do, YouTube in my opinion is going down the drains anyway. I used to click the videos tab to watch all the "higher rated content" ANd now, everything is just junk, people some how getting their stuff up to the top like it is a contest. The way people setup their thumbnails for their videos. Youtube honestly was once very and i mean very addictive, these days i find it just a site i come to when im bored, used to be my home page.
So to do this new advertisement idea i believe will absolutely fuel the bomb around here and explode bringing this site to a crawl.
Instead of concentrating on how to annoy people and make millions, start thinking of screening content, proper management of the videos and get rid of the massive amount of spam on here.
One thing this site reminds me of instead of a regular ole site to post your home videos it reminds me of that old show called "Star search" Everyone thinking they'll become famous off this. We have talent around here damn straight...
My rant is done, best of luck but i doubt it'll work guys, almost positive, there has to be better ways but first concentrate on management of videos please
Due to this, I think I'm going to stop going on Youtube for a while. I don't want to sit through an ad like this.
This seems to be the only place to give feedback, so I'm going to post it here.
My main irritation with youtube is the message system. When I reply to a message, it cuts off the original message I'm replying to. Sometimes it is days before I can get back to folks and by then, they may not even remember what they typed to me, so I usually manually copy their original message back in the conversation.
Also it would be nice to search your messages. I would love for the system to be more Gmail like - where it's not so difficult to communicate and keep up with conversations. Search by username to find a message would be nice as well.
It's not "moneygrubbing" - giving away things for always ends up in bankruptcy. Google still has 13,000 employees to pay, shareholders to respond to, and customers who want them to build cool stuff. I'm sorry to say but all of that does actually take money and time (which is also money)
Besides, this is actually way better than a TV ad - just think if you could have a tv ad go away after a few seconds of not responding to it? Instead, they always run the full 30 - unless you have DVR or TIVO - but you PAY for that feature.
It'll be interesting to see how this works out, and if it can keep google stock moving.
It'd be pretty interesting to see what kind of ads you place on those vids where the girls only shake their adolescent half dressed asses. Maybe clothing ads...no wait...maybe you'd sell dance lessons. Learn to whore yourself like these poorly unsupervised underaged girls on the internet.
Awesome, because YouTube didn't have enough ads to begin with.
Honestly, I think the worst thing you could do is put an ad right in the video. Especially when you have to click to close it so you can actually see what you're watching. That will get old really fast.
Is there a way to advertize videos on other videos??? If so, I want to know how.
can i make a video in youtube
To Datter: Youtube may be a business but it needs to keep its users happy if it wants to succeed. You can placate advertisers in the short term, but when the customers flock to something else (and history tells us something better almost always comes along) YouTube better listen.
Worst idea ever. When I start to see that crap, it'll be time to unsubscribe. I have no problem with sitting through a pre-roll . At least that won't obscure the actual content I wish to see.
When television started adding ads like this to their shows, I thought "And these people wonder why ratings are constantly down...".
There are better ways to make money Google.
Ahhhh, youtube is getting too serious. If you really want ads have them at the end. This new feature mite get annoying to many of the casual youtube watchers.
I'm a bit torn in this subject. Often, I don't mind the pre/post-roll of an advert., but they can get annoying. I say go for it, but give us the OPTION of wanting to view the ad, or disabling the ad in our control panel or something. That would be more helpful, I find. Otherwise, go-ahead, the 20 % on the bottom doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me.
http://rapyeu.com/music/nhacphim.htm#cakhuc.vn_29_3
Not as bad as it sounded. Good job.
Not really excited about that. I know youtube has to make money to stay up, but that's just annoying to do. Not many people would even look at the add! They are on youtube for the videos not the adds.
no thanks.
I don't know what to say about the ads insertion. I just saw a Reuters video that explains the whole concept and I was wondering if the ad insertion will actually become a revenue for the user that is submitting their own videos and not copyrighted material to You Tube? I know most of the users would like to receive a monetary compensation just for allowing You Tube to insert ads on their videos, as long the video itself does not break the copyright laws.
That sounds TERRIBLE!!!!
Have not seen one yet. I take it this means that partners receive remuneration only for click-thrus? I guess I will have to see if any partners "suggest" I click on the ads. One parter did tell me he is not compensated for views but did not elaborate due to NDA.
well... if it comes up at the bottom, while im watching a video with subtitles... ill be fairly annoyed, but if it comes down from the top, I think it'll be a hell of a lot better, as ill see the ad come down, and still be able to watch the subtitled videos without interruption.
Just a little suggestion
-Hagridandfang
Perhaps giving users a setting to permanently disable overlay ads would be a good idea, I'm quite sure many users will feel quite annoyed if they are just casual users and come to this site to escape advertising and just enjoy creative content.
Who has this on their videos?
Wouldn't it be a better idea to let YouTubers decide for themselves among a number of different way to present ads, like the overlay one, ads before the video, ads after the video, whatever? I bet people will have different tastes and some may not want to incorporate this particular kind of ad, but would find a different kind acceptable. Nice to see that this revenue sharing is moving along though.
No thanks - overlay adds will only cheapen the feel of YouTube. Not only that but it's unfair to place adds in people's video's if they don't want it. Plus: What if the add hides text, or the main punchline of a gag?
That user is NOT going to be a happy bunny, nor is his/her veiwers...
hey um... the rating comments thing is a great idea but now i cant post comments on videos.
Every crappy video site that has these ads sucks, I always thought great that YouTube doesn't have them. Good job, you just turned YouTube in yet another crappy video site.
This actually sucks.
That really sucks! i don't want my artistic masterpiece to be filled up with cheesy unrelated ads. The site will become less attractive.
-it appears that most comments here are from the "i want something for nothin'" crowd. How about this business model -YouTube charges you each time you upload or view a vid! (afterall, YouTube is a business)
Putting it at the bottom of the screen, where most captions are isnt such a great idea.
Awesome Digg style comments YouTube! I've always wanted that implemented here! Great job!
Is it legal to modify an artist's work? It's like putting a billboard on Mona Lisa. YouTube has become crazy. I like majorunderscore's reply. @YouTube Team: read it. You are now destroying your own company. YouTube's pretty slow too last few weeks, and now it's also crappy :)
Mark my words: no more Google in 10 years. The search engine never returns good results, the business doc thing is worse than MS Office, Gmail is a privacy-issue and the videosite contains ugly ads. GOOD JOB!
Is there any way to turn off the comments rating feature? It turns the comments backwards (except the ones which are replies - they're still the right way round, which can get confusing), and sometimes not all of them show up!
This new comment sucks. Please add an option to remove it please. Why would anyone rate other people comments anyway? Seems like a waste of time. I want it gone please.
I'm fine with the new scheme for advertising. I know it costs money to run YT. Either advertising or subscription fees.
However, this new format for comments is no good. You need to provide an option to view them oldest to newest (like it was before the update).
Plus, I think there may be a problem with the new system. Check Hughsnews latest offering (watch?v=TSXcEzC5k5k). If you click on "View all xx comments", you get nothing.
I'm fine with the new scheme for advertising. I know it costs money to run YT. Either advertising or subscription fees.
However, this new format for comments is no good. You need to provide an option to view them oldest to newest (like it was before the update).
Plus, I think there may be a problem with the new system. Check Hughsnews latest offering (watch?v=TSXcEzC5k5k). If you click on "View all xx comments", you get nothing.
Ah well.. it's how it works these days. Change the good things to make money out of it.
Oh this is just fucking average. Yep. Average. Let's be like every other greed monger out on the internet and clutter up a good thing with ads. Not like anyone else out there is creating a quality experience for thier customer base. Sheesh, what's the sense in THAT? After all we must consume consume consume.
And it probably wouldn't be that bad if advertising was actually interesting. But most of is crap.
Hey youtube, how does it feel to fling crap at your customer base? Reminds me of monkeys at the zoo.
I think majorunderscore has some good points. Personally I wouldn't mind paying a small subscription to upload videos but keep viewing ad free.
How are we in full control of our YouTube experience, when the add will be there 20% of the video??? Just make it a 10 second overlay on the beginning of a movie. Even if the video pauses because it doesn't load fast enough.
I can see the logic behind the new ads, but I still don't like it. I would gladly pay a subscription fee to be able to view YT videos without ads.
Remember the Golden Days of television when the program was paramount and inviolable and advertising had to wait till the commercial break? Art today is treated like a disposable diaper, and both the artist and his audience are disrespected if not outright insulted by this onslaught of intrusive advertising. It says much about our culture that we meekly accept it.
I don't really see the point of rating comments. How about you guys just get them do display right? I know LiveVideo came after you guys but they got everything right as far as their platform goes. The way LV do their comments is dead right. The only thing is you should be able to view all comments like you guys do. The way they do video responses and integrate them into the comments is great and the character count when you typing your commments is awesome. You need to steal it. Hell they stole basically everything else from Youtube. Even with the upgrade still the comments are displayed wrong with replys. It's all upside down. R & D wasted their time on this feature. Should have did character count to the 500 character limit more than anything.
Wow... I'm not a fan of this one. As others have said, the ads could block captions, and I don't know many people at all who think these kinds of intrusive ads are a good addition to TV shows (and now YouTube videos). I think you'll lose some people pretty quickly once these start really rolling out.
YoooogleTube, you're pretty creative with advertising. Why go with such a traditional model? Why not have an opt-in model where users can earn a penny or two for each ad they see? There could be a preference in the user account to turn on or off ads, but if people didn't watch them, they wouldn't be making any money. Either that, or give content creators the option to allow ads on their videos in exchange for receiving a portion of the income. I've loved some of the newer (and more realistic) models out there for content generation with videos (look at some of your competitors, like Revver).
This just seems like it's a way to anger your current user base. That seems un-Google-like to me.
Ok, so presumably you are going to give the owners of the video content some revenue share, but how about the Web sites that are embedding the content and bringing all of the readers?
If ads are going to be showing up all over my site and you are going to be making money from it, then I want my piece of the pie as well.
I think the new comment system is fucked up. For some reason if I want to see all of them it displays them the same way as in normal mode and you can't even see some replies to a comment now. It would be better to indicate in the title of our comments TO WHO are we replying also.
This sounds almost annoying Adbrites BrightPics advertising idea.
If it means more free, better content to the user from networks and music labels... I am all for it... I think its a great idea... YOUTUBE is not art and this is coming from a professional working in the film and television industry... I have my videos on youtube yet I do not consider it a way to share my art, it is a way to distribute my work so others can see it. If I want someone to SEE my art, a low quality internet video is not the way to share your ART, if you have any respect for it, that is. ADs will make youtube better for everyone. Imagine a day when you will not have to subscribe to cable because youtube will have higher quality videos and more content to replace your existing cable provider and it will be FREE! An AD in the lower 1/5 of the page is less distracting then a 3 minute commercial break... IGNORE ALL THE PEOPLE BELOW ME..... THIS IS A GREAT MOVE ON YOUTUBE'S PART....
is anyone else having problems accessing their favorited videos on their accounts? just wondering cause mine isn't working and I don't know why :/
is anyone else having problems accessing their favorited videos on their accounts? just wondering cause mine isn't working and I don't know why :/
is anyone else having problems accessing their favorited videos on their accounts? just wondering cause mine isn't working and I don't know why :/
Can I put Google adsense in my profile. :P
Can I put Google adsense in my profile. :P
Do not want.
i'm hearing a general consensus of NO THANKS. people came to youtube due to ads being more prominent than actual programs. however give me the option to have them always off and we won't have a problem. i'm sick of adverts.
Understandable, but, no, thanks
Either put the ads at the beginning of the vid, or at the end, 10 seconds is a good chunk of a one-two minute clip.
What's wrong with the AdSense ads? Google Search relies entirely on AdSense, is there a reason why Google feels they have to throw a whole bunch more ads onto YouTube? YouTube was supposed to be a service that allowed people to freely share their videos with others, now you're going to show ads over the video and completely ruin the experience, and the whole point of YouTube. I guess we all should have predicted this the day YouTube sold itself to Google.
And don't tell me you guys are doing this to help pay for the video hosting. Gmail gives me 3 GB of e-mail space, and I don't see them sticking ads inside my e-mails, do I? Don't stick ads inside the YouTube videos either, or you will definitely see a mass exodus from this service.
It seems to me rom the comments on this post that is "We Drive the YouTube Experience", that means that we're going to drive it to an ad-free YouTube, or we're going to drive away to somewhere else.
Totally predictable once YouTube was acquired. Also predictable that people will abandon YouTube in droves with this intrusive and unacceptable violation of the user's uploaded content. If this is necessary to keep YouTube going, better to just stop and remember it for what it was.
watch?v=izkjiTY45kU Liking the new features. Search box video, rated videos, nicer butons. Please, you might as well go the whole hog with the digg-style comments and get the threaded comment approach. It's hard to understand replies as they get piled on top randomly.
Either put the ads at the beginning of the vid, or at the end, 10 seconds is a good chunk of a one-two minute clip.
How about allowing the people who want ads on their videos to generate revenue as well. Like a type of revenue sharing.
Bad decision YouTube.
You may be hosting all these videos on your servers, but you have no moral [or legal?] right to impose ads on other people's creations.
I will personally cancel my account and leave YouTube altogether. You may think you are high and mighty, but never forget that without users, you're nothing more than a collection of webpages.
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Maybe if the ad is shown after the video would be ok...
Please no adds. I loved the charm you tube is. I love being able to just see the movie I clicked on and not wait 5 minutes lookin at a gecko with a bad accent. You tube is not broken. Please don't "fix" it.
Yes, mergestudios, lets ignore everyone but you, because you're a professional. This isn't YouTube, its YourTube.
Don't put ads in a video, its horrible to look at.
I don't know how this ad system works, but I think that if you are going to insert ads into videos then do so at the end of the video. When users are looking at the related videos screen, why not have a small advertisement playing there?
If I wanted to watch commercials, then I would have TV. If this happens, look out LiveVideo...here comes BillyJulio.
The comments are all in the opposite order. Why?
I think it would be discusting if you do that. common just make banners that's better than stupid invideo ad's it will fuck up our home maid video's
You're doing it bass-akwards. Run full-length commercials with amateur videos EMBEDDED IN THE COMMERCIAL!
New feature?! Do you fully understand the meaning of feature? I really don't think you do.
You're doing it bass-akwards. Run full-length commercials with amateur videos EMBEDDED IN THE COMMERCIAL!
Here's an idea: Everyone creating a video for YouTube should sell and insert adverts of their own directly into their uploads. Create a video of surfers, for instance, sell a few seconds of it to, say, Bisect Surfboards, then run an overlay of the Bisect logo ---translucent, of course--- on the image of a surfer's magnificent tube ride at Waimea. Of course Google-slash-YouTube would probably delete the video as being "too commercial," which, in turn, could lead to all sorts of complaints about censorship, yada-yada, blah-blah.
I for one will not use YouTube if you have advertisers
why not only put them on videos that get over 10,000 hits?
InVideo ads destroy the YouTube experience. I have no use for YouTube if these ads continue.
I agree that youtube needs to get revenue somehow, but I do NOT agree with the new ad overlay. I think that youtube should place ads to the side or use adwords in comments even! Certainly not IN the actual video's.
Great job on the booming website. =]
I cannot see the ads due to my browser and addons (Firefox, with Greasemonkey/ad blocking script, AdBlock, and CustomizeGoogle with the adblock feature active), so nothing had changed on it for me. In fact, I haven't seen a single google ad (or any other ad for that matter), in any format, in nearly 2 years. All hail the holy browser and it's add-ons. :p
We came here because we didn't have to watch the shitty, intrusive, ridiculous ads that we are force fed everywhere else. We don't want to buy anything, we came here to watch a damn video. What is so hard to understand?
No thanks.
People - it is time to start looking for a site that will not alter the footage of the videoclips in any way - like the "old" YouTube used to be.
...What happened to our comments? Already not every viewer takes the time to rate the video itself, why bother having a system of rating the comments themselves? Who is gonna seriously take the time to do that? If the user doesn't like the comments on their videos, they already have the option to remove them... and as a viewer, I prefer reading them in linear order. And now the "view all" does not view all either.
My previous suggestions still apply:
Sorting by Faves (everywhere), listing the Faved Xs under vid titles (also everywhere), fixing the My Videos page (and/or the Search pg too) to have organized statistics (and correct ones, the Faves # is still missing from My Videos and Playlists # is always 0) - perhaps in columns? Also the Search page needs all three thumbnails back, so we kno what a video *really* is before clicking it... And all pages of everything having the option to show user's choice of amount of results (chosen in acct settings, ie I'd like to view 100 results / msgs / comments / etc per page, etc, instead of 10 or 20; you could give users the options of 10 or 20 or 30 or etc till 100, yea?)... Plus, the Subcription emails? Need to have *all* the details of the vids, becuz again, you dont kno what you're clicking or missing just from ppl's vague titles, and there should be an option to get *single* emails per every new vid from our Subs, also with full details... Oh, and the profile comment notification seems to be broken, I'm never notified altho I have it set to do so... etc.
Thanks for everything else...
No thanks.
People - it is time to start looking for a site that will not alter the footage of the videoclips in any way - like the "old" YouTube used to be.
I'll pass. There are other options to youtube!
Would you please explain the new comments format? I don't get it at all.
Wow Google. Thanks for fucking up youtube. You've already just lost about a thousand people (in a couple days) to other video sites. Thanks alot.
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