YouTube ads are almost entirely bought by venture capital firms. They see the YouTube audience as immature and not very savvy, but that audience thinks of itself as mature and very savvy. This gives VC a pretty wide gap to shoot through for targeted advertising.
As a result you get products and services a step better than scams, and actual scams being advertised. The fact that these things aren't really going away until Coffeezilla does a takedown kind of proves the VC firms right in their assessment too.
A good rule of thumb, if it's being advertised on YouTube/twitch/tiktok, whatever short form media, it's probably bad. Or, exorbitantly priced. (I'm looking at YOU, Displate)
A rare exception is Nebula. Should be kinda obvious why.
Because more often than not, something that is advertised too much is usually a bad product. Good products speak for themselves, are spread by word-of-mouth, or at least require only minimal advertising.
Not on PC, but on my tablet I just use the youtube app and i haven't been bothered to look into adblocks on the app. You have to use browser to adblock, right?
Apps that run entirely on ads will probably not make enough money so premium or freemium is where they go. If they have no ads in their app, they probably also have no money to buy ads on YouTube.
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SippyCup@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 107d
YouTube ads are almost entirely bought by venture capital firms. They see the YouTube audience as immature and not very savvy, but that audience thinks of itself as mature and very savvy. This gives VC a pretty wide gap to shoot through for targeted advertising.
As a result you get products and services a step better than scams, and actual scams being advertised. The fact that these things aren't really going away until Coffeezilla does a takedown kind of proves the VC firms right in their assessment too.
A good rule of thumb, if it's being advertised on YouTube/twitch/tiktok, whatever short form media, it's probably bad. Or, exorbitantly priced. (I'm looking at YOU, Displate)
A rare exception is Nebula. Should be kinda obvious why.
scytale@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 107d
Because more often than not, something that is advertised too much is usually a bad product. Good products speak for themselves, are spread by word-of-mouth, or at least require only minimal advertising.
ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 7 pts · 107d
Why do you keep ads on youtube?
Gentryfried@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 106d
Not on PC, but on my tablet I just use the youtube app and i haven't been bothered to look into adblocks on the app. You have to use browser to adblock, right?
ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 105d
You have 3 options:
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 4 pts · 107d
Apps that run entirely on ads will probably not make enough money so premium or freemium is where they go. If they have no ads in their app, they probably also have no money to buy ads on YouTube.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
They could charge a fair price for the app and forgo the ads all together.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 6 pts · 107d
Isn't that a premium model then?
whaleross@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
What is a fair price?