An ad is never going to stop me from watching your great craft and content. Always worth it. Keep it up Sam!
5 years ago | 2
Yep, you're by far not the only one who missed this sneaking up! Just mute the ads and skip along! Weirdly I was getting away relatively ad free watching on a Fire TV box. But even that seems to have been hit hard in the last couple weeks. Always enjoy the content Sam, keep up the sterling work 👍
5 years ago | 1
dont stress yourself. you did the right thing and explain to us what happend to you and in a while you will figure out how to overcome this. your doing a great job with the guitars , keep on going.
5 years ago | 6
As annoying as too many adverts are, I am prepared to skip them or wait it out, if the content is good. Sam has some great content & I definitely enjoy spending time in the "shed", it won't put me off :-)
5 years ago | 0
I hope you at least get a little money from the adverts.
4 years ago | 0
ach, who cares, we've all got used to this kinda stuff with youtube now, doesn't spoil my enjoyment, no point letting it get you wound up
5 years ago | 1
Sam Deeks
A quick update on YouTube and their 'massive increase in ads' strategy.
I've checked and sadly it's true that YouTube added both 'mid roll' AND 'unskippable ads' to my channel. There WAS, it seems, a YT communication prior to this action (in which we had the option to decline this automatic retrospective increase in ad placement) but it was obviously so clearly articulated that I - along with many others - missed it.
The result is that all 760+ of my videos got these kinds of additional and intrusive ads switched on. The YT interface allows me to change the monetisation settings - but only one video at a time and even that is a relatively clunky process. Right now I simply don't have enough spare hours to edit the monetisation settings of 760 videos...one by one....
So until I do have the time to chip away all I can say is 'sorry' and remind YouTube (once again) that this strategy was NOT a good move to retain creator goodwill. When it's too late you'll wake up to the fact that creators have left the platform and you'll have lost the vital content you needed to even dream of the subscription-only business model.
5 years ago | [YT] | 33