What I learned in ten years of blogging

Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by dhimes on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:46PM (#18718135)

So, I have a question: I'm seeing lots of videos on social media that are very long. They're cute or funny or amazing or something, but they seem like they are artificially long, like they are trying to keep me in the act of viewing them. If they aren't an advertisement themselves, then why is this the trend? What is the reward for engaging a viewer in a sight gag for several minutes? Are they gaming the ad companies by padding some "average view time" or something?

It sure smells like shenanigans, I'm just not sure why.

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by rchaud on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:36PM (#18718687)

I don't know about FB, but Youtube videos can only be monetized if they're a minimum of 10 minutes long. That's why videos by 'Youtubers' can be so painful to watch; they are trying to stretch out 2 minutes of content into 10, and it's obvious.

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