Open Question about YouTube
A while ago I put together a list of songs on YouTube that I wanted to listen to a lot. At work I open the browser, run that list in rotation, plug in my headphones, and minimize the window. I'm good to go.
The way things used to be, certain very popular songs that had a few million views or more had advertisements in front of them. I avoided those, finding other versions of the same song that were less popular, and thus had no advertisements. Beginning last week, one of my current songs, which only had 40,000 views, had an advertisement in front of it. I thought maybe YouTube had lowered their threshold for "popular" videos and so deleted it off my list. Earlier this week, a different one had an advertisement, so I deleted that too. Today a third had an advertisement, and it only has 14,000 views on it.
I wonder, is YouTube now applying advertisements just across the board, in front of videos sort of randomly? For example, if 100 people log into YouTube and watch 100 different videos, does YouTube put an advertisement in front of 25 of them without regard to whether those 25 people are watching popular/heavily viewed videos or not? Because if that's the case, then there's no point to me deleting off songs I like that have ads in front of them, because the ads are popping up based on MY viewcount, not the viewcount connected with the video itself.
I was wondering if any of you knew anything about this?
The way things used to be, certain very popular songs that had a few million views or more had advertisements in front of them. I avoided those, finding other versions of the same song that were less popular, and thus had no advertisements. Beginning last week, one of my current songs, which only had 40,000 views, had an advertisement in front of it. I thought maybe YouTube had lowered their threshold for "popular" videos and so deleted it off my list. Earlier this week, a different one had an advertisement, so I deleted that too. Today a third had an advertisement, and it only has 14,000 views on it.
I wonder, is YouTube now applying advertisements just across the board, in front of videos sort of randomly? For example, if 100 people log into YouTube and watch 100 different videos, does YouTube put an advertisement in front of 25 of them without regard to whether those 25 people are watching popular/heavily viewed videos or not? Because if that's the case, then there's no point to me deleting off songs I like that have ads in front of them, because the ads are popping up based on MY viewcount, not the viewcount connected with the video itself.
I was wondering if any of you knew anything about this?