Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by deeeeplearning on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:26PM
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The iOS app has become unusable for me because of this. Not only are there too many ads but they are so poorly targeted to me that I have to seriously question the capabilities of Google's army of engineers...
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That could just be an ad inventory thing. If YT doesn't have a targeted/discrete audience large enough within a campaign window to fill out impressions then they likely widen the net to complete the run.
I think they explicitly choose to run the same ad over and over again for 40-60 times to the same user to force that user to subscribe to Youtube Premium.
(Someone's evil A/B experiment resulted in such a high conversion rate they couldn't stop themselves.)
I think thats certainly in their repertoire too. In fact, they're probably experimenting with a number of degrading user experiences to see what performs best
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by dylan604 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:56PM
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Just play political ads from whatever candidate over and over. That'll get somebody to make the ads go away.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by leesalminen on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:13PM
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I literally converted today because of this. Damn you Dr Squatch soap company.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
by davidjnelson on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:56PM
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If people would pay for content we might have less ads...