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Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

thats why i block them all.

they aint making money off of annoying me.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. I never see any ads on youtube.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Ads didn’t make 10 billion, Google charged advertisers 10 billion. IMO ads have gone so pervasive they’ve hit a point of diminishing returns. They’re everywhere, we hate them, and those 10 billion spent would have to bring many more billions in sales to be an attractive service.

I can’t wait for the ad bubble to burst, as advertisers understand they’re just giving money away to megaadvertisers for paltry conversions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Influencer sponsorships, especially for beauty influencers, have already been declining. Companies realize that these influencers are just posting ads now and people don't believe their "honest opinion" anymore. So it's a mystery to me why companies still pay so much money for regular online ads.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm an admin in Google Ad Manager for a few hundred sites. Saying that to say I've read a lot of their documentation. They have a great graph showing this very concept. Less ads, less money, happy users. More ads, more money, unhappy users. They're aware. They aren't pouring the poison. They're designing the pitcher and selling different size cups.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't hate them. I think 80% should go back to the creators though.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ads?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, what the fuck is the article talking about? I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Did u mean "tax for the poor and stupid"?

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