Youtube and others want their users to disable adblockers to increase their revenue from advertisements, but will forcing the users to so do be effective in ...
My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.
Sadly, from what I gathered, a lot of kids will follow a video link rather than a text one.
I’m the exact opposite as for 90% of topics, I’ll be able to extract the same amount of information in 1/10th of the time. But maybe reading is becoming a lost art. Will we see people reading aloud one of those days?
My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.
Sadly, from what I gathered, a lot of kids will follow a video link rather than a text one.
I’m the exact opposite as for 90% of topics, I’ll be able to extract the same amount of information in 1/10th of the time. But maybe reading is becoming a lost art. Will we see people reading aloud one of those days?
Yup; we are not the target audience, I guess