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- chiliu78, on 10/17/2007, -14/+596They better not or I am gonna waste my work hours on a different site.
- thomasknowland, on 10/17/2007, -10/+388youtube? Oh yeah, I remember them.
This comment will make more sense in two years. - ionut, on 10/10/2007, -5/+184That's inaccurate. Gizmodo links to a news "posted on 23/04/2007". Meanwhile, YouTube already launched the video ads and they're not that obtrusive:
From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22goo ... :
"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, which it said was unobtrusive and kept users in control of what they saw. The ads, which appear 15 seconds after a user begins watching a video clip, take the form of an overlay on the bottom fifth of the screen, not unlike the tickers that display headlines during television news programs. A user can ignore the overlay, which will disappear after about 10 seconds, or close it. " - dukeeeey, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6030 seconds ?
lol
no one will want to use youtube anymore ..... - Gustomucho, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4830 seconds too long
- bpapa, on 10/10/2007, -3/+46Buried as inaccurate. Geeze, you'd think Gawker's bloggers would do some fact checking first.
- foooey, on 10/10/2007, -8/+49RIP YouTube 2005-2007
- AndyVenus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42Half of digg is YouTube.
- swordedge, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3827 seconds too long
- Wandel, on 10/10/2007, -5/+35I can live with that.
- KompressorV12, on 10/10/2007, -6/+31the biggest and most successful websites are always the ones with the least intrusive ads (facebook, google, YOUTUBE), the rest always go down the drain (myspace, yahoo, msn) etc... I think this is one of the stupidest decisions they could have made, it will be interesting to see what kind of competition arises from this now
- DarkShroud, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26They already did sell out, to Google.
- mojaam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23You won't be the only one, in fact that's why I don't watch cnet, cnn, msnbc, dl.tv videos.
So what's the next best alternative to youtube in case they ever decide to pull this? - foooey, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Hopefully The Pirate Bay will launch their video site soonish, which will kill youtube anyways, even if they didn't put ads on their site.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22How is covering up the bottom fifth of a video with an overlay "unobtrusive?" And, why do they have to put it on TOP of the video? Can't they just put it underneath?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Dugg for avatar.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19***** NO!
I am not waiting 30 secs before I can watch Chris Crocker cry... - Digisphere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1530 sec add for a 10 sec clip of someone getting kicked in the nuts? Somehow I don't think thats gonna last very long...
- r0ryb0ryalis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16http://stage6.divx.com is growing site with much higher quality than YouTube. Hopefully this will spur a jump in it's popularity!
- fluxion, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1430 seconds, indiscriminately, is ridiculous. smaller->no ads should be used for short clips. im sure google has the technology to determine ad length based on the length of a clip.
30 seconds in front of some free bbc special is fine. 10 seconds in front of a 5 minute clip is fine. for anything shorter they shouldnt have any ads....or if possible, 5 second ads or something.
edit: ahh, from what ive seen below it doesnt even interfere with the video playback. that's fair - AvidPreatorian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Brilliant.
- OGTL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11If they actually do that, i'm removing all of my content and never using the site again. Are they turning into CNET?
- exomni, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12YouTube starting sucking balls around the time Google bought them and Viacom started pulling videos.
- JeremyBanks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Yes, damn them for trying to make it profitable!
- shinynew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10How about streaming an ad as soon as the video ends?
- KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Even though it's inaccurate, and linking to a 5 month old article, I do recall seeing somewhere that ads would only show if the submitter chooses to put the ad there, (and earning a share of the ad revenue) - much like AdSense, and much more like Metacafe.com
- Juntistik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I nominate stage6
- netburnr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Exactly why I don't click anything coming from Gizmodo.
- hexydes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Uhm, because you are working in a medium that does not have a fixed resolution format?
I think what the poster meant was that instead of overlaying the ad on the bottom of the video (and thus covering up content), just move the ad outside, to the bottom/underside of the video (thus NOT covering up the content). This is actually a very good idea. - technoredneck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7On behalf of myself and other gay men everywhere, this is not our fault, I swear.
We're too busy causing natural disasters, bridge collapses, and terrorist attacks to set our sites on something as petty as YouTube. - sparcher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Oh you're right. Nobody uses Myspace.
- shabazdavisjr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Couldn't. You couldn't care less.
- freepizza48, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yahoo is actually doing very well for themselves.
- MrM1yagi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8THIS IS MADNESS
- UnstableMind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Exactly, they're going to get creamed by the competition that doesn't do video ads. Hell, I don't watch live tv now b/c of the advertising. My Tivo makes a nice bleep bleep bleep everytime a commercial comes on.
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I think I'd rather have a five-second fullscreen ad than those overlays - they drive me ***** nuts. Not only do they cover the actual content, but the TV ones at least are always bouncing around and otherwise are very intrusive.
The only problem is getting them inserted in the right place (during a cut, between scenes, etc) in the shorter clips. But they're not doing it that way so it doesn't matter. - TrevorBelmont, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That'll be fine. Some ambitious start-up will follow the old ad free format and become the new you-tube.
- Quidam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7No. Just No.
- shovelready, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6all the other video sites will be like "watch videos here!! WITHOUT THE ADS!!" and then youtube will be down the drain..):
- 2Bnor2B, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hold on here..
If I post content to YouTube and people watch it, don't I deserve a cut of the ad revenue. - craftyguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Craftyguy adding Youtube.com to hosts file.
- MrPig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51. Find Digg post.
2. Fail to count.
3. Post generic comment.
4. ?????
5. Buried! - nubnub, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6youtube= fail
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5YouTube, I just don't think this relationship will work. I feel the need to see other video sites. You just don't please me like you used to do before the advertisement. I think I'm breaking up with you. No don't cry, there will be other suckers to watch your videos...
- image0434, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I'll go somewhere else if they do...I should not have to watch some crappy ad I didn't click on to watch some crappy video I did click on
- Darcy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5NOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOT ANOTHER GAY SITE! There's already far to many of those)-:
- DoverGeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hrm, so does that mean that I will be able to watch all my TV shows online through YouTube since it is ad supported just like the major networks are?
- Smartkidz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Dugg for reference to avatar that i didn't notice. :)
- twodayslate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4UPDATE: False alarm, this is an old story and Google has since changed their plans to the overlay ads we reported earlier. We apologize for the inaccurate and outdated report; we should have done more research and been a bit more skeptical about this pretty unbelievable report.
- JeremyBanks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Facebook's ads have been coming more annoying of late. It's starting to piss me off.
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