ads on youtube

bill mart

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anyone know how much the advertisers are paying the people who post videos on youtube ? Its getting really annoying that some of the longer videos have an ad at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. Also there was a guy who was showing how to get large amounts of 22 ammo at walmart and he was really pushing for you to subscribe to his youtube channel. Is he also getting something for adding more subscribers? Bill
 
I don't know the going rate for what they pay but I agree, it's annoying. Whenever you post a video you can choose to allow or not allow the advertisements before your videos. I have posted several videos and never allow the ads on my videos because I think they are rediculous.
 
Look at it this way: Youtube is not cheap to operate. You would be stunned by their utility bills alone, to say nothing of the hardware and bandwidth. It may be there is some other way to pay for all this besides advertising, but so far nobody has figured any alternative to ads.

Here's what I do: I always have multiple browser tabs open. If I hit an ad on YouTube or some other site, I just switch to another tab and look at something else while the ad runs. Youtube gets its ad revenue, the advertiser thinks somebody actually watched its ad, I get to see the video eventually and I don't waste my time watching an ad. Everybody wins.

Most of the ad revenue goes to Youtube, but the content owners get a small cut. Young Lanse, who posts here from time to time, was getting a little revenue from the various videos he posted. I don't think it amounted to much, but he apparently thought it was worth his while.
 
Great idea about having multiple browsers open for when the ads are running on YouTube. I open multiple browsers to play some of my favorite songs in the background while I'm doing something else, but your suggestion is much better.

Stan
 
Get Add Block Plus, it's free, it will remove 99.9% of the adds. Also has a counter that keeps track of the adds. Last night I watched a machining video about 40 minutes long, had 237 blocked adds I never seen.
 
I agree!! I was looking at the CNN main page and Ad Blocker stopped 21 ad...just to look at the main page and not open any stories. Everyone is complaining about hogging up bandwidth and here are 21 items I didn't even want to see.
PS- No ad blocked were on YTMAG (yea!)

Edward
 
For a bunch of chest-thumping, pro-capitalism, pro-business "patriots" you sure do whine a lot about capitalism at work.

Yeah, it's all about the money. Why else would someone come up with something like Youtube? Profit motive is behind nearly everything we have in life.

It costs money to keep the lights on at Youtube HQ. Since you're not paying for anything, they have to get money from SOMEWHERE.

The ads aren't nearly as obtrusive as normal TV. You get one at the beginning, one at the end, and zero or more in the middle depending on how long the video is.

Most of the ads can be skipped after 5 seconds, and none of the unskippable ads are more than 30 seconds long.

TV hits you with 2-4 minutes of UNSKIPPABLE ads every 5-7 minutes.

Plus, the producer of the video gets a cut of the ad revenue if they so choose.
 
Good points. Anyway, the ads on YouTube, or even on TV, are scant compared to what some people must experience all the time online. Go to any celebrity or relationship related site and click on one of the more lurid offerings that appear below the main story---choose a text only one. The ads that pop up, slide up, drop down, or simply appear are so unrelenting that it's often impossible to move on to the next image or page. And, by all means, don't accidently click on any part of the screen except the place you're absolutely sure (hint: it's never possible to be absolutely sure) you're clicking where you think you are. In the future, holograms, virtual view screens, and concealed speakers will provide a similar experience to pedestrians walking on city sidewalks. It will be like driving on the most advertising infested road in the city, except closer, louder, and more personal.

Stan
 
(quoted from post at 11:43:11 10/03/14) Get Add Block Plus, it's free, it will remove 99.9% of the adds. Also has a counter that keeps track of the adds. Last night I watched a machining video about 40 minutes long, had 237 blocked adds I never seen.


Thanks Hoby , loaded adblock last night , haven't seen an ad since ! Total blocked 801 in less than one hour online . Best advice I have had since my dear old dad passed away .
 
so far ten responses and no answers to my two questions . Just trying to see what makes it so worth it to put on advertising ? (guess I can google it and get back to you guys). Bill
 
heres the first one I found from a person who supposedly is doing it. Bill

:Hey everyone youtube doesn't pay you for views, they only pay for the ad clicks. Because I have been a youtube partner for 5 months now, I got so far over 3000 views and have only got paid $16.36 for only ad clicks, to this day I haven't got paid for views. I even emailed adwords about that they told me that youtube doesn't pay per view only per click on ads. I don't know how people make a living on youtube then, its very confusing to the point of frustration. Youtube doesn't have a live customer service phone number so that even more frustrating.
 
as I understand it - youtube markets popular videos to advertisers. Obviously youtube gets its cut, but so does the poster of the video.

But they come to you - not the other way around. They don't care about your video, no matter how good it may be, UNTIL it's tracking solid numbers. They monitor the hits of the videos, find a popular one that they think has some staying power, and they sell advertisement time.

They contact you with an offer and you can take it or leave it.

What you make depends entirely upon how popular the video becomes/stays - if you've peaked already, you may make very little. If the video "goes viral" so to speak, you may make a decent little profit.

But even if you had a lot of good videos, I wouldn't hope to get rich off of youtube.

The glory days of crazy internet money are well behind us now.
 
You can also elect to "monetize" videos up-front, so if they do prove to be popular you can ride the wave so to speak.

I wouldn't say the glory days of big internet money are gone, but you aren't going to make big internet money off of youtube videos. You need to come up with the next big thing, the next youtube, the next facebook, etc., convince people to invest millions into it even though it hemorrhages money year after year, and then IPO it for billions, even though it hemorrhages money year after year.
 

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