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Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement) (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (14 children)

When I'm 'watching a video' I watch it all the way thru. However often I'm looking for something specific, like how to do something, and a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don't love but whatever). In that situation I'm usually looking for a specific piece of information which often requires scrubbing around in multiple videos. Same thing if I'm doing research on a product, while I might watch a review will the way through I'm more often looking for some specific things like video of the interface or does it have some specific setting or can I set it up without needing a phone app or cloud account. That requires scrubbing around in multiple videos to see bits of the setup UI. Unusable if each video has an ad

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don't love but whatever)

    You're not alone in that, and it seems neither am I

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don’t love but whatever)

    One of my favorite Youtubers (Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles) has excellent in-depth content mostly about WWII piston-engined aircraft with lots of detailed discussion and reference to original source materials. But it's just him reading a written script while presenting still photos and excerpts from flight manuals and the like. It really would be perfect as a blog or in book form, but he has to turn it into videos in order to have any chance at making decent money from it. It's just such a shame that this is how things are going now.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This makes no sense to me. It's significantly more expensive to create and host video content, yet somehow we've gotten to the point where that's the most profitable? It makes no sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's all about advertising. On a web page, which is cheap to create and cheap to host, the only ad you can really get is a pop-up or similar, and those don't pay very much. On the video, which is expensive to create and expensive to host, you can have 30 or 45 seconds of video ads, which pay a lot more.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    It has nothing to do with the expense and everything to do with the fact that most people do not enjoy reading (any more, at least).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I guess I'll just appreciate the fact that my books don't have ads.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I read a lot of books on Kindle. It's just a matter of time ...

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