ALERT: Beginning on July 27th, 2020, YouTube is going to start automatically adding mid-rolls ads to all videos that are at least 8 minutes long unless you specifically opt out of it. So if you don't want your channel bombed with ads in the spots its "machine learning algorithm" thinks are "natural breaks" in your videos, be sure to opt out now:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006?hl=en-GB
You can still manually opt to add mid-roll ads to specific videos even if you opt out of the automatically placed ones.
Not a bad thing from YouTube in fact.
When looking at what Dave said in his video about the new mid-roll ad policy we have the following facts:
- All new videos longer than 8 minutes will have mid-roll ads placed *per default*
- All older videos longer than 8 minutes where you have opted *out* of mid-roll ads will be *automatically opted IN* for mid-roll ads (fuck them).
- You can only *manually* opt out mid-roll ads
- You can place mid-roll ads *manually* at any time in you video
- If you place mid-roll ads *manually* instead of done automatically by YouTube, you will be *less attractive for advertisers*
- As usual, YouTube is justifying all the extra annoyance by "helping creators" and "supporting advertisers", blablabla. *Surprise
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Dave needed more than *16* minutes to explain the above (still *without* mid-roll ads interruptions)
My consequence: KISS/VS. (In long: Keep it short and simple, violent and sexy).
Its easy to say everything that needs to be said here in 4 minutes maximum. This will you keep you clear of mid-roll ads for a while to come.
Might give it a thought.