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Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing (recode.net)
Facebook is going to start running pre-roll ads on its "Watch" videos next year. While you won't see your News Feed full of video ads, you will start to see pre-rolls, which will run for up to six seconds, on videos in Facebook's "Watch" hub. Recode reports: Facebook launched its Watch hub earlier this year, using "mid-roll" ads (another ad format Facebook tried to avoid for a long time). The fact that they have added pre-rolls -- the format used around the web and the one advertisers are most comfortable with -- should be read as an admission that the mid-roll ads aren't generating significant revenue for Facebook or the publishers putting video into Watch. Speaking of those mid-roll ads: Facebook now says they won't appear until later in videos and they'll only run on longer videos. It says the ads (it calls them "ad breaks") can't run until a minute into a video, and they can only run if the video is at least three minutes long. At first, the ads could run after 20 seconds and on videos as short as 90 seconds.
One more reason to continue to avoid Zucker-hell
The majority of the internet economy is driven by ads. I love watching it burn to the ground.
It says the ads (it calls them "ad breaks") can't run until a minute into a video, and they can only run if the video is at least three minutes long. At first, the ads could run after 20 seconds and on videos as short as 90 seconds.
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sign me up to this facepalm.
I can't imagine why this is good for anything, or anyone, or who would want this. Didn't they just say they were going to try to not ruin the world any more than they have already contributed to doing so, with their "schtik" the other day?
Who wants ad's in their forums anyhow? They should talk to SourceForge.
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And then there was one...
Social media gets nothing.
The more you tighten your ads, the more users will slip through your networks.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
This one is for free: Don't do it.
There is no worse place for your ad than in front of some video someone wants to watch. Your ad could be the most topical ad ever, targeted perfectly for me and even about something I have been looking for for my whole life. And still my reaction to it would be negative. Why? Because it keeps me from getting what I want.
Not just like the ads interrupting shows that you watch. They may be annoying, but at least you already got a bit of what you wanted. That's more like someone calling during dinner. Annoying, but you're still chewing, you're still tasting your food, you're still more or less satisfied while you get annoyed. No. This is interrupting and annoying you BEFORE you get what you want. That's more like someone who stops you right after you're done cooking, preparing to sit down to enjoy your meal, looking forward to it and already salivating in anticipation.
This is the WORST kind of experience you could give someone. Your ad target already knows what he wants, thinks he is about to get it and this is exactly the moment you interrupt him.
This person will do anything to get rid of your ad. And he will not care AT ALL what your ad is about. He will not watch it. He will use every second of the time he has to watch it to look for ways to end it so he finally gets what he actually wanted.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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No Google were cheeky fuckers, really cunning. They did not target their ads at you, they targeted them at the advertisers, convincing them to buy ad space.
Want to know why those ads don't sell because youtube et al is much more like magazines rather than like TV. So imagine you are reading a magazine and flip to the next article, what they do is not offer an ad, they shove it in you face and demand, actually fucking demand you keep it there, "fuck you animal look at my ad, how dare you fucking look away scum". Now they expect that approach to sell you something, well, it doesn't is just pisses people off and they hate the product, not one forced ad has ever sold me anything what so ever, not a single one because fuck em. In a magazine the ad is offered for a split second you read or ignore it, on the internet oh fucking no, WATCH THE AD ANIMAL OR ELSE, seriously demand you watch the ad, insist you watch the ad, force you to watch the ad and then scream at you, and in the most idiotic fashion expect that ad to sell you anything what so ever. Of course that ad targeted at advertisers, feeding their delusions, expecting positive results from forcing ads on people, yep buys right into their ego and they spend big and blame lack of sales on other things, rather than shitty advertising practices.
Ads, you have to let people choose, else you sell nothing. M$ was the worst at this showing full page ads, blocking content until the ad cycle ran down it's timer or as more often was the case, people just stopped going to MSM because dick heads ran the company, choked the chicken with their ad greed. Where is MSM now, Facebook is on the way out, people are starting to look for excuses to drop it.
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I tolerate and ignore the 5 second adds.
The ones that demand I watch them before I can watch the video, I just go to a different video. Or mute the sound and switch to a different window. I *hate* them. I will not purchase anything due to those ads from people who advertise that way .
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