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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Flash..... flash macromedia... the golden age.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Well, no. It's been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

I don't think people were doing it professionally as much back then.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

People started doing it professionally when the ad money came in. Before that people did it for the love of the content, and it was lower production quality, but better content.

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