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A scientific fact/tidbit you recently learned that you thought was interesting

You mean the damned 70/80/90 second recitations of the sponsor's product and features (VPNs most often in my feeds)?
I've gotten so used to skipping ahead that it's a pleasant surprise when the spiel is done in 20 seconds. [emoji38]
Or the rare use of chapters so you can just jump past it.
 
rjh01 said:
You will find so many channels do the same thing.
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All too true, I'm afraid.

arthwollipot said:
I guess you're never watching anything on YouTube again.
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Perhaps not on YouTube channels. Very often one-offs are alright. Being able to filter out ads and very quickly skip over the few than make it through my web filters are why I much prefer text to video.
 
Jim_MDP said:
You mean the damned 70/80/90 second recitations of the sponsor's product and features (VPNs most often in my feeds)?
I've gotten so used to skipping ahead that it's a pleasant surprise when the spiel is done in 20 seconds. [emoji38]
Or the rare use of chapters so you can just jump past it.
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Yes, this. I went to the video to learn about the so-called "Axis of Evil," not to have some stupid other crap thrown at me by none other than Becky herself. I have very little patience for this sort of rudeness.

Anyway, this is more suited to the "Pet Peeves on the Web" thread.
 
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Blue Mountain said:
Perhaps not on YouTube channels. Very often one-offs are alright. Being able to filter out ads and very quickly skip over the few than make it through my web filters are why I much prefer text to video.
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There's no such thing as one-offs on YouTube. There may be channels that only have one video, but everything is on a channel. And if someone is serious about creating content on YouTube, they need to get paid for it. Sponsorship is the way to do that. Literally all of the serious content providers do it. If it annoys you, well, there's still free-to-air broadcast TV. For now.
 
I rarely watch anything "as it happens". I'll record it and skip through the ads. My timing has gotten pretty good as resuming the show just as it comes back on.
 
ZirconBlue said:
. . . which also has ads.
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Which is one reason why I haven't watched it in decades.

But on YouTube, don't confuse ads with sponsorship. A content creator will make a deal with a sponsor to do a bit about them in their content. Many YouTubers try to make the sponsored content fit in, or try to tell an amusing narrative, or something. YouTube itself inserts ads into unrelated videos. You can get rid of YouTube's advertising inserts by paying the subscription, which I do and have never regretted. But the sponsorships presented by the content creators themselves are their way of earning a living. And let's face it, usually pretty easy to fast forward through, which is what we all did when we recorded to our VCRs off the telly.
 
theprestige said:
Dang. Is Australian YouTube that bad? I watch stuff on YouTube without ads all the time.
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Me too. Because I pay YouTube to not show them to me. But content creators also have sponsorships so that they can pay the bills, which is what Blue Mountain was complaining about.
 
arthwollipot said:
Which is one reason why I haven't watched it in decades.

But on YouTube, don't confuse ads with sponsorship. A content creator will make a deal with a sponsor to do a bit about them in their content. Many YouTubers try to make the sponsored content fit in, or try to tell an amusing narrative, or something. YouTube itself inserts ads into unrelated videos. You can get rid of YouTube's advertising inserts by paying the subscription, which I do and have never regretted. But the sponsorships presented by the content creators themselves are their way of earning a living. And let's face it, usually pretty easy to fast forward through, which is what we all did when we recorded to our VCRs off the telly.
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They're both ads, just presented by different parties.

Anyway, ads are a classic way to get around the problems associated with the undersupply of public goods. Youtube videos are somewhere between public goods (non-rival non-excludable) and club goods (non-rival, excludable). As you say, content creators need to make a living if they're going to be incentivized to keep making these videos, and ads are one of the few ways that they can actually do so. The main other way is the subscription model, but that doesn't always work.

Another model is just where their videos are sort of ads for their other stuff. Ie. "Exposure". You make videos in order to become well known hoping to turn that fame into profit in some other way.
 
Roboramma said:
They're both ads, just presented by different parties.
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True, but one is presented by YouTube, and the other is presented by the content creators themselves. You can get rid of the first by paying YouTube to remove them, but the second help to generate the content that you want to see.

Also, remember that liking and subscribing has a very real effect on The Algorithm so don't forget to do that for the content you want to see more of.
 
Some public channels on YouTube are ad free. I've gotten used to different ways one skips YT ads but honestly, I don't begrudge their ads.

Dr Becky annoys me for other reasons though she has gotten better.
 
arthwollipot said:
True, but one is presented by YouTube, and the other is presented by the content creators themselves. You can get rid of the first by paying YouTube to remove them, but the second help to generate the content that you want to see.

Also, remember that liking and subscribing has a very real effect on The Algorithm so don't forget to do that for the content you want to see more of.
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Yep, agreed. I think the distinction you are making between the ads that YouTube attaches to videos and the ads that content creators present within their videos is a meaningful and important one, I was just making a minor semantic point that they are both "ads".

I agree with the rest of what you are saying and the rest of my post was basically reinforcing it from a slightly different angle. :)
 
Roboramma said:
Yep, agreed. I think the distinction you are making between the ads that YouTube attaches to videos and the ads that content creators present within their videos is a meaningful and important one, I was just making a minor semantic point that they are both "ads".

I agree with the rest of what you are saying and the rest of my post was basically reinforcing it from a slightly different angle. :)
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:thumbsup:;)
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Some public channels on YouTube are ad free. I've gotten used to different ways one skips YT ads but honestly, I don't begrudge their ads.
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Same. I see it as the price I pay in lieu of paying out of my own pocket. I don't begrudge others earning money for their work.

I pay out of my own pocket for Netflix and other streaming services, so I expect an ad-free experience in return.

It is possible to pay for YouTube Premium if you don't want to put up with ads on Youtube, although even that won't eliminate ads that the content creators themselves put in the actual videos they upload.
 
arthwollipot said:
You'd be surprised at the extent to which cancer is survivable these days.
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And how quickly the survival rate is improving. Some years ago when I was being matched for bone marrow harvesting I spoke with an oncologist who was in his fifties then, IIRR, who told me that many forms of leukemia had effective a zero five year survival rate when he was a student, but were now around 85%.
 
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