Why are you seeing so many more mid-roll ads on YouTube lately? YT has implemented a new policy where they go back through your entire library and add mid-roll ads to all your videos. If the videos already have manual mid-rolls, then YT can be told not to add any more, but for all my old videos where I didn't add any mid-rolls, or for livestream replays where I normally don't add mid-rolls, YT is adding them. And they're adding a LOT of them.
This is doubly annoying because YT says they are adding mid-rolls in "non-disruptive places" but that's all algorithm-based and is often wrong. On top of that, my manually placed mid-rolls, which I intentionally put at scene and chapter transitions, are being rejected because the stupid algorithm says they're in a disruptive place.
Joshua Bardwell
Why are you seeing so many more mid-roll ads on YouTube lately? YT has implemented a new policy where they go back through your entire library and add mid-roll ads to all your videos. If the videos already have manual mid-rolls, then YT can be told not to add any more, but for all my old videos where I didn't add any mid-rolls, or for livestream replays where I normally don't add mid-rolls, YT is adding them. And they're adding a LOT of them.
This is doubly annoying because YT says they are adding mid-rolls in "non-disruptive places" but that's all algorithm-based and is often wrong. On top of that, my manually placed mid-rolls, which I intentionally put at scene and chapter transitions, are being rejected because the stupid algorithm says they're in a disruptive place.
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