consumerist.com — Now Google believes it finally has found the formula to cash in on YouTube's potential as a magnet for online video advertising and keep its audience loyal at the same time.The company said late Tuesday that after months of testing various video advertising models, it was ready to introduce a new type of video ad
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digichrisAug 23, 2007
But your company makes billions of dollars, why wouldn't you pay employees? Oh yeah, this is just an analogy, IRL ur broke.
chompyAug 23, 2007
Hey Google, guess why so many people have simply stopped watching network television. Go on, guess.
frankrizzo69Aug 23, 2007
Long live liveleak where the real videos reside
r3bolAug 23, 2007
I use flashblocker (firefox plugin), which does the job for other sites. You can specify which flash movies you want and which to block.
Closed AccountAug 24, 2007
Simple solution: Put the ads at the end.If it is _my choice_ to watch the ad, sometimes I do if it looks to be amusing enough.Which is a lot more times than I watch an ad when I'm forced to at the beginning of a video. Those, as they've discovered, I just quit out of and go do something else. And, if I'm feeling particularly incensed, I *will* go out of my way to not buy the product being advertised.Force feed me at the beginning or splash it all over the screen in the middle of what I'm trying to watch and I'm not going to bother trying to use your little 'service' at all.
squiretoadAug 24, 2007
Screw 'em. I don't watch any videos on the news feeds that have ads. I won't be watching any Youtube videos that have ad leaders. And if Google starts adding ads to anything .. well, I won't be using them either.The information (or entertainment) just isn't that valuable to me. Nor are the POS products advertised.
jdtlAug 28, 2007
You know what I don't want to watch ads ever and neither do you, ok?
fotbrDec 6, 2007
Nope. No problem for paying for things at all.
fotbrDec 6, 2007
You'd be surprised how many ads you can avoid if you use ad blocking software and turn off the TV. Books tend to not have advertisements.Whats left is actually fairly minimal.