True, but not the key point. If it were merely expensive then more companies would do it.
The issue here is that allowing anyone to upload a video and then serving it to literally anyone else, for free, is not a viable business model. You have to stuff it with ads to even come close to solvency and even then people fight back with ad blockers. I’m sure they experimented with embedding ads directly into the video stream by now and determined it’s not currently a good idea, but I think it’s coming.
The point here is that I’m not even sure YouTube makes much of a profit (if any) . There’s no money to be made with this model which is why YouTube has nearly no competition.
People brought up pornhub. Have you tried using that without an ad blocker (even with an ad blocker they have to keep getting around it to force ads on you)? That’s what you have to become to actually money with this model.
How would embedding help them if Sponsorblock already skips embedded sponsor ads from the creators? This seems like just an additional category for Sponsorblock.
It would inject the ads directly into the video stream like how Twitch does it currently. It wouldn’t register as an advertisement for any blocking software to handle it without blocking the video you were trying to watch.
Sponsor Block works because users flag the section of video that the creators edit into their own videos so it can be autoskipped by others with the addon installed.
True, but not the key point. If it were merely expensive then more companies would do it.
The issue here is that allowing anyone to upload a video and then serving it to literally anyone else, for free, is not a viable business model. You have to stuff it with ads to even come close to solvency and even then people fight back with ad blockers. I’m sure they experimented with embedding ads directly into the video stream by now and determined it’s not currently a good idea, but I think it’s coming.
The point here is that I’m not even sure YouTube makes much of a profit (if any) . There’s no money to be made with this model which is why YouTube has nearly no competition.
People brought up pornhub. Have you tried using that without an ad blocker (even with an ad blocker they have to keep getting around it to force ads on you)? That’s what you have to become to actually money with this model.
How would embedding help them if Sponsorblock already skips embedded sponsor ads from the creators? This seems like just an additional category for Sponsorblock.
It would inject the ads directly into the video stream like how Twitch does it currently. It wouldn’t register as an advertisement for any blocking software to handle it without blocking the video you were trying to watch.
Sponsor Block works because users flag the section of video that the creators edit into their own videos so it can be autoskipped by others with the addon installed.
Couldn’t tik tok compete with you tube?
tick tock is a privacy nightmare
Yep but irrelevant to what op is asking. There is a need to break YouTube’s monopoly