Youtube ads. They finally done it. | The Coffeehouse

magicalclick

Notice the little yellow indicator under the progress bar? Once the movie plays to there, an half transparent ad pops up and you have to click the x to close it. They don't auto hide after certain time. They finally done it. I was wondering when they start showing ads in embed videos.

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

That's all I'm saying: They planned that since 2007. Wink

rhm

I was watching a video on another sharing site the other day and that kept popping up a new advert every 1 min so you had to keep clicking on the x or put up with only seeing 1/4 of the picture.

I expect a lot more suckage as even the bigger sites need to extract more money from views. It's funny that Chris Anderson's new book "Free" (which is basically the second coming of the 'new economy' bs from the first .com bubble) should come out just as online businesses are getting a lot more realistic about what they can and can't give away and how the ones that are offering services for free are realising that they can't give the kind of quality Google used to indefinitely.

Evernote put nagging adverts into it's client for non-paying users a few versions back. Spotify seems great at first, but the more you listen to it, the more frequent and longer the adverts are (and I have counted them, I'm not just imagining it!). More and more .coms are shuttering free services before they go bust and switching to different projects.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to rhm

#Jul 7th @ 4:33 PM

I was watching a video on another sharing site the other day and that kept popping up a new advert every 1 min so you had to keep clicking on the x or put up with only seeing 1/4 of the picture.

The videos on thatguywiththeglasses.com do this too, it's horribly annoying.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Half transparent popups? I'm regularly seeing a full-frame ad play for 20 or 30 seconds before the actual video plays. And it's not just an ad, it's the most annoying ad that plays on television. So now it's on youtube too, unskippable. Awesome!

LeoDavidson

It's so obnoxious and makes me associate HATE with the products being advertised rather than a desire to buy them.

Every other form of advertising shares time and/or space with the actual content you're trying to view. These video-overlay adverts obliterate the content.

I've watched videos on some sites where the ad pops up at the bottom and obscures an important part of the image in the video. It's bad enough that you have to keep clicking the X to see the full image; when you actually have to rewind to see important content it's gone too far.

Advertising should either pause the video or not overlap with the video.

Maybe someone clever will find a way to block the overlays. Smiley I'd use such a thing. I disagree with removing advertising in general -- I don't run AdBlock -- because it hurts the sites but I'll never hesitate to nuke advertising that interferes. After all those Flash adverts which played loud noises out of the blue, or appeared on top of the article I was trying to read, or used 100% CPU I blocked Flash by default (with a whitelist), and I'll block these stupid overlays if good extension / proxy / whatever is made to do so.

Ion Todirel
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In reply to LeoDavidson

#Jul 8th @ 3:53 AM

> It's so obnoxious and makes me associate HATE with the products being advertised rather than a desire to buy them.
it's exacty the same with me, I hate ads! I hate that is somehow forced to you

LeoDavidson

In reply to Ion Todirel

#Jul 8th @ 6:12 AM

FWIW, I don't hate all ads. Ones that don't annoy me and sit beside the content are fine. I'll even click on them if I have some interest in the product.

(I find out about most things I'm interested in via news sites or word-of-mouth before I see ads for them, so the ads I do click on tend to be products by small companies that I wouldn't have heard of otherwise. In those cases I appreciate the ads telling me about something interesting. So some advertising is good, I think, but advertising that gets in my face and destroys the content I came to a site for is very, very bad.)

Baywatch

In reply to Dodo

#Jul 7th @ 4:19 PM

#%$!

Unfortunately, I'd now rather purchase a Youtube Pro subscription to avoid them. Will they have one?