An insidious thing, but I'm not surprised, sadly; In the minds of the greedy enough is never enough. Adverts or not though, I always appreciate your fascinating videos, and will certainly continue to watch them. Might even be brave enough to put some of the info into practice one day :)
5 years ago | 3
I’ll continue watching your information videos regardless. Thanks for sharing your experience!
5 years ago | 0
I think, with all these things, useful change only really occurs when enough people get both thoroughly cheesed off and sufficiently clued up. Maybe enough YouTubers will reach that point and begin to organise, and perhaps we'll see the emergence of a democratically owned, rival platform, with the content creators and viewers in the driving seat? All YouTube need do is to keep on pulling dick moves like this, and it'll happen. Anyway, thank you for the videos Sam, they may not be the most slickly edited, or snazzily produced, out there, but they are by far the most informative on their subject, and that's real value in my book, so I always recommend your channel as the first stop for anyone interested in setting up, rebuilding, and repairing guitars. Furthermore, you've managed to help keep me sane through a prolonged medical absence from work, and I've done a whole load of fun projects with my kids, though we would appear to now have very little wall space left and a somewhat guitar themed home :-)
5 years ago | 0
I watched a video the other day of a guy playing his guitar, it was taken off by you tube because it had one chord that sounded similar to an ACDC song. They are going to lose a very good thing if they carry on with these stupid ideas. Your content is great though Sam, so please just keep putting content up.
5 years ago | 0
They were somewhat underhand in how they notified creators about it. It was possible to opt-out of them backdating midrolls on old videos, but only if you studiously read the smallprint buried in the sea of detail and acted by the 27 July deadline. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006?hl=en-GB The courteous thing to do might have been an explicit opt-in instead of out, but like you say, that doesn't suit their accountants intentions. You're not the only one I've heard of that got caught out by the change over. If anything that reinforces that their change over plan wasn't clear enough.
5 years ago | 1
Sam Deeks
YouTube, in a quest to make more money for themselves, took it on themselves to enable 'mid-roll ads' AND 'un-skippable ads' on all videos on all channels. This means that, overnight, you - the viewer - suddenly had to endure 2, 3 and 4 times as many ads during a video than before. It creates a LOUSY viewing experience and I apologise. To make matters worse, while it is possible to take off mid-roll and un-skippable ads I can only do it video-by-video which is taking time and energy to do. In their greed, YouTube took the liberty of switching these kind of additional and intrusive ads for ALL of my 750+ videos posted over the last 6 years.
The interface doesn't allow 'bulk' changing of settings, so all I can do is ensure that every video I publish from now on has those kinds of ads taken off and, whenever I have a spare half hour, I can plough my way through those 750 videos turning them off one by one.
It seems that YouTube is trying to make the viewing experience so poor that viewers will opt for a subscription model. When that happens, YouTube will be happy because instead of having to 'share' its earnings with content creators, it will be able to keep it all for itself - and leave creators looking for new ways to make money 'influencing'.
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