GrymEdm@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agoAs a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a videolemmy.worldimagemessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up11.54K
arrow-up11.54KimageAs a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a videolemmy.worldGrymEdm@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agomessage-square187fedilink
minus-squarespeaker_hatlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-28 months agoI also felt like lately there are too much ads on videos. YouTube Ads alone yielded $31B in revenu for Google in 2023. YouTube Ads is not going to disappear, unfortunately. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/289659/youtube-share-of-google-total-ad-revenues/
minus-squarecorbin@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoRevenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.
I also felt like lately there are too much ads on videos.
YouTube Ads alone yielded $31B in revenu for Google in 2023.
YouTube Ads is not going to disappear, unfortunately.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/289659/youtube-share-of-google-total-ad-revenues/
Revenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.