What is Digg?48 Comments
- techblogLAT, on 07/25/2008, -0/+73Good luck getting people to watch a 15-second rolling ad for a 10-second clip of prairie dog dramatically turning his head.
- darkstar949, on 07/25/2008, -1/+48Actually, this makes a lot of sense as most people tend to be annoyed when people start to profit off of their work without them seeing anything in exchange. So while ads in a TV show would be fine as someone else made it and that would have ads when broadcast over the air; seeing ads in some short video that I made an uploaded to YouTube would be annoying since I did all of the work. Granted the bandwidth is still costing someone money, but the service provided (e.g. the bandwidth) isn't seen as having a value that makes it worth someone putting an ad in your work.
- t3hbagel, on 07/26/2008, -0/+41TV shows are half an hour long.
Who wants to watch even a 10-second ad just to view a 2-minute YouTube clip?
Nobody, that's who. - inactive, on 07/26/2008, -1/+20Hey Google....I realize you typically buy ***** companies to come up with this kind of genius....but let me save you some coin: The length of the advertisement(s) that we are willing to watch is directly proportional to the length of the featured content.
- cjmal, on 07/26/2008, -0/+14That's because the quality of YouTube's videos are bad enough as it is. Throw in the small resolution of said video and then throw in an ad that takes up a good amount of the small space and it's ridiculous. At least with my television im getting a high resolution image on an even bigger screen.
- peterjmag, on 07/26/2008, -1/+12DUN DUN DUU--all new episodes of the Bill Engvall show every Thursday night at 9, only on TBS!... UN!
- Zenham, on 07/26/2008, -1/+10The placement of advertising isn't a problem for me, it's the quantity of it. When sites ensure that *every* video comes with ads, that's when I stop watching videos online. When I'm watching four clips on a site and all of them come prefaced with an ad, to top off the fifteen other ads already visible on the page...
- surasshu, on 07/26/2008, -1/+10I also would like to live in your world of fairytales and magic where things don't cost money.
- Danikar, on 07/26/2008, -0/+8You should probably rephrase that to:
"The length of the advertisement(s) that we are willing to watch is directly proportional to the length AND QUALITY of the featured content."
Because there are a lot of home movies out there that are very long and not worth watching a 10 second ad for. - mockupscaledown, on 07/26/2008, -0/+8Quality of the content plays a major role, as well. I'll watch a minute or so of ads for a South Park episode. I will NOT tolerate an ad during a clip of someone talking to their web cam.
- cogitocogito, on 07/26/2008, -1/+9Hulu's doing this right with its great content and sparse but mandatory ads. I hope it gets more traffic.
To show it support, It's one of the few sites I whitelist with adblock. (there's also a selfish reason. adblocking always gives you 30 second pauses, but many ads on hulu are fifteen seconds or less) - dmourati, on 07/26/2008, -0/+7Good comment. Could one also say that the length of the advertisement(s) that one is willing to watch is directly proportional to the quality of the featured content?
- Tyrghast, on 07/26/2008, -4/+11I'm fine with ad's in TV considering I don't watch it.
- 0biKwiet, on 07/26/2008, -0/+6You tube videos are usually so crappy, they aren't worth waiting to see.
- t3rmv3locity, on 07/26/2008, -0/+6"and 62 percent for movie/TV trailers and previews"
62% of people would approve advertisments during movie/tv trailers? Think about this for a second, movie and tv trailers are ALREADY ads...
wtf? - zizzy, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5That's a bad comparison, because out of a 30-minute tv show, almost 10 minutes are commercials. If people put up with that, a 10-second ad for a 2-minute clip should seem like nothing.
- Jenadae, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4Commercial productions can have adds.
Something i created and make no money off of cannot.
Yes you are hosting my material and that is why you have ads on your site. - alexforcefive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4Sometimes I feel like I must be living in an alternate universe. Am I the only person whose gut still churns when they see adverts in the cinema, on a dvd or before a web video? Am I the only person who hates those little text ads in youtube videos?
Maybe I'm so far outside the curve that no marketing types give a *****, but just in case: hey marketing types; if you interrupt my experience for even a second (this includes flash banners, interstitial pages, etc) I will immediately become hostile to whatever brand you're pushing on me. If you must advertise, a small, static banner will suffice. Text ads are also ok - inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4RTFA. It's not talking about site ads. it's video ads like what hulu.com does for tv episodes.
- bloodguard, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3I don't mind ads at the beginning or end. If they're stupid enough to embed ads overlaying the video (like TBS) I'm closing the browser and never coming back. Or in the case of TBS I removed the channel from my Tivo and Dish tuner.
Example of my bane: http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/06/05/tbs-pauses-a-sho ... - inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3The minute that ads on a site start becoming annoying is the minute that particular site dies. There are just too many options these days for people to put up with ads everywhere. We just go somewhere else.
- joegibes, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3And you can see when Hulu ads will be coming up - not to mention the quality of the service itself.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Users OK to be ***** morons.
- bradleyland, on 07/26/2008, -3/+5"without them seeing anything in exchange"
If you think that the infrastructure, maintenance, and bandwidth provided by YouTube amounts to users not " seeing anything in exchange", you're out of your mind. The bigger problem is that most users haven't a ***** clue what it takes to operate these websites.
Bunch of leeching sloths. The entire lot of them. - spyd3rweb, on 07/26/2008, -4/+6The length of advertisement I'm willing to watch is exactly 0.
- vega27, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2I think its complete ***** to have to view ads before a video on youtube (we should atleast be given the ability to skip it not be forced to watch [this ain't live television]) and also crawling adds that overlay on top of youtube vids is also complete *****.
am i gonna have to use youtube on my tivo just so i can skip adds!?!?!??! LOL - Asianwaste, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2Youtube should increase the average allowed video length under the condition that they will have a high expectancy to stream an ad prior to viewing.
Say any video over 5 minutes would have short ads, and 10+ minute vids would have longer ads. - Jamesx6, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2If I NEED a product or service I'm on the freakin internet, I can find it in a split second.... I don't need to waste time watching some 10 second tampon ad. I'm against ALL advertising; its invasive and annoying and adds to the over consumption that is flushing society down the toilet.
- Crucible1001, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Don't forget the total of ads is about 3 mins per a normally 1 hour show. Regular tv shows are around 17 mins per 1 hour show.
We are also not paying a subscription to cable to watch it. - str3ama, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Navigating through YouTube videos would be all the more tedious if you had to watch a 15-40 second ad before each video played, just to find out that the video was a Rick-Roll. I'm willing to put up with it in streaming TV like http://www.freetube.us.tc http://www.hulu.com because the longevity of it remaining depends on that. If YouTube wants to monetize, I'd be fine with ads on the side (like right above the description). In-video ads are annoying, and they better be offering users a way to avoid rick-rolls if we have to sit through ads.
- antdude, on 07/26/2008, -1/+2Technically 21-22 minutes without commercials.
- Atomic1fire, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1I just ignore the ad or push the little exit button that comes on mini popup in video ads
Dont expect me to remember what the ad said because I didn't care
besides ads could be worse
they could make ads harder to ignore or block - dbr_onix, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Hmm.. Subliminal advertising messages on Youtube you say?
- novenator, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1the preceding words were brought to you by Wal-Mart, your caring corporate friends
- ajb2015, on 07/26/2008, -1/+2...because someone holds a gun to google's "head" and says, HOST THESE VIDEOS OR DIE!
- bradleyland, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about? The same gun that is held to peoples heads threatening, UPLOAD YOUR VIDEOS TO OUR SITE OR DIE!
- Atomic1fire, on 07/26/2008, -1/+2And while your at it...
pay or pirate everything (obvious sarcasm)
the thing with advertising is that you can just leave or ignore it....
Its not like they are forcing you to watch the ad
when they are on tv... its called break time
when they are on the internet in a short video
its called do something else for a short amount of time or patiently wait until its finished and care more about what you want to watch then the corporation itself
anyway if nobody advertised
No one would know anything about anyone
advertising serves to get a name out...
you can listen to the advertising (some ads are funny) or you can ignore it
but it keeps certain things free
like digg for instance
I dare you to boycott digg
they purposefully allow brainwashing - Atomic1fire, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1that's what targeted advertising is for
Displaying stuff you actually care about
but anyway
Advertising exists for two reasons
It gets a name out
and it allows media that would normally be costly to be free, legally
To say that digg shouldn't have advertising means that A. they would have to make it a subscription service
or B. they would have to use their own money and considering digg is a company you need to make money to have money
its the same reason you cant have a government without taxes (but the lower the taxes the better for everyone... up to a certain point) - metaphzle, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1I hate YouTube ads in the middle of videos!
- truck87bp, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1Guess the Title was inaccurate...
- Narcowski, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1Which is exactly why YouTube is now allowing some longer videos now.
- jturbo, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0@djsim...Right, adblock plus will stop commercials being played before the video you are requesting to see.... RTFA and RTFCs
- digglet08, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1Thank you! I've been watching ads slowly squirm their way onto youtube. First the "parallel" ad, than the little fade away banner, than the big permanent banner. Facebook as well.
- scotishstriker, on 07/26/2008, -2/+1i am fine with the ad's on the NBC and hulu websites
- novenator, on 07/26/2008, -3/+2Advertising is glorified brainwashing. Don't be a sheep, boycott any corporation that advertises.
- Narcowski, on 07/26/2008, -2/+1Don't forget NoScript.
- djsim, on 07/26/2008, -5/+3Solution: Get AdBlock Plus.
- spyd3rweb, on 07/26/2008, -5/+2If your business model relies on having to show people ads, maybe its time you rethink how you do business.
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