Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse?

Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by Kye on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:23AM (#23769610)

This is a large part of why I won't pay for the premium service. I don't know how much creators get, but I know they always work their way toward pitiful payouts like Spotify. For an example of this slide, see how microstock has gone from something you could make a living on to ever-shrinking payouts and increasingly opaque bonus structures.

A recent example is Shutterstock's change to the payout and bonus structure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/guv6s3/shutter...

https://xpiksapp.com/blog/2020/new-shutterstock-earnings-bre...

The minimum was 25 cents per image. That could add up fast when an agency buyer with a huge bulk credit plan took notice of your portfolio and bought it out, then returned every time you added more. It's now 10 cents per image.

Spotify got there fast. YouTube will get there if it isn't already.

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Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by flamtap on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:19AM (#23770098)

If there’s one ad I get the most, it’s the God damned YouTube premium ads. I don’t know how many times I have to say no to the prompts. I wish there were a way to say “I will delete the app before I buy this”.

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Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by Operyl on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:37PM (#23773455)

I’m constantly getting “trump approval” campaign ads. Oh the joy of living in Florida.

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Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by Jommi on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:14AM (#23777140)

I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?

Spotify directly removed massive barriers to entry in distributing music. So there are more artists available to you than ever. Listeners might have grown as well, but it seems not in the same scale.

This could also be the case in microstock (and it seems to make logical sense). More and more photos are posted, and more people are posting. So ofcourse as supply grows the price lowers.

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Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by Kye on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:39PM (#23783508)

>> "I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?"

I made no attribution to bad will. I described a phenomenon without judgment.

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Re:Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse? by kazinator on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:46PM (#23771624)

The large part of why I would never pay for premium service is that most of the YouTube content consists of unauthorized reproductions of works.

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