Youtube New Advert Policy...

[kuhlka]

I have yet to love any channel on YouTube enough that I'd do a paid subscription thing. Even if I had a million subscribers I wouldn't consider that. Seems to me donations are the way to go. There's a guy who does Dark Souls/Bloodborne lore videos and he's got the average American year's salary in donations from subscribers...

I don't mind being forced to watch a 30s commercial to get 'free' content from my favorite vloggers. I can always tab to a different window until it's done playing. I'd probably unsub if they asked me to subscribe. I'm not interested in people who only vlog for a living. If I wanted that kind of content I'd watch much higher quality documentaries or industry news videos from pro moto journalists. Now if it was someone like Keith Code or Valentino Rossi doing the vlogging, I'd considering doing a paid subscription.

 

[RealRider]

If I had the income where I could quit - I would probably do what Day9 has done and expand my repertoire into more than just biking.

 

[SwissMotard]

If I had the income where I could quit - I would probably do what Day9 has done and expand my repertoire into more than just biking.

I used to love watching Day9 for his StarCraft replay analysis. I stopped watching him completely when he became just another "let's play" channel.

 

[RealRider]

I used to love watching Day9 for his StarCraft replay analysis. I stopped watching him completely when he became just another "let's play" channel.

I really like his stuff on Geek and Sundry - I enjoy MTG =)

 

[thunderous71]

Well looks like YouTube is starting to act against AdBlock and the people that use it. If you are using an AdBlock software on youtube now you will soon if not already have get un-skippable adverts. And if a video is long you will get then throughout the video! IE every 5-10 mins.

 

[sixmiffedy]

I think the idea is good. We will see how it plays out. I can see content creators making videos for sub users only and such but it will ensure that content creaters that relied on ads don't get wrecked by adblock.

some of the big guys are using patreon to release their vide early to paying subs. So I can see YT going that way.

 

[Lurch]

I was watching some Fifth Gear stuff the other day, hate non-skippable ads. I ticked skippable for my vids as I'm not going to make anyone endure a 30s ad. Anyone forces 30s ads on me will soon loose me as a viewer.

 

[kuhlka]

some of the big guys are using patreon to release their vide early to paying subs. So I can see YT going that way.

I do that for a couple musicians I like, but a YouTuber would have to have AMAZING high quality content for every episode for me to pay-in for that. VaatiVidya is about the only person I'd consider paying on Patreon for YouTube, but his videos are so infrequent that I can't justify it.

 

[RealRider]

some of the big guys are using patreon to release their vide early to paying subs. So I can see YT going that way.

It has a similar tool built in for such things already

 

[SighBored]

Personally, I go by the philosophy "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", if I'm not going to sit by and be forced to watch ads in a video, I will not subject others to do so for mine. However, if you are willing to watch the ads "for the sake of the creator", don't assume that others are inclined to do the same for you though.

Paid subscription / fan funding / donations, are not features I would use for myself, as I do this as an interest/hobby. I understand how this would appeal to the full-timers that rely on their videos as main source of income.

Pretty sure Adblock or some other developer would eventually come up with a way to overcome forced ads.

 

[kuhlka]

Personally, I go by the philosophy "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", if I'm not going to sit by and be forced to watch ads in a video, I will not subject others to do so for mine. However, if you are willing to watch the ads "for the sake of the creator", don't assume that others are inclined to do the same for you though.

Paid subscription / fan funding / donations, are not features I would use for myself, as I do this as an interest/hobby. I understand how this would appeal to the full-timers that rely on their videos as main source of income.

Pretty sure Adblock or some other developer would eventually come up with a way to overcome forced ads.

I just go through my Watch Later list and ctrl-click a bunch of videos into tabs. Probably 'watch' the ads for eight videos at a time on my PC then hit pause on each before watching them in order. Anyone not multitasking during ad time is wasting their time. This is one of many reasons I rarely watch YouTube or other video on my mobile devices.

 

[O8ride]

I've never used an ad-blocker, but I am finding that most ads on websites nowadays are videos or gifs or huge banners and they eat up my RAM so the site loads slowly. It's really annoying.

But I don;t have an issue with YT adverts. A little banner comes up at the bottom and I clikc on the X to remove it. An advert viideo comes up at the front and I skip after the 5 seconds. Little skin off my nose, am used to it. Occasionally I'll watch the advert if it grabs me within that 5 secs.