where's Ground News (yes i listen to boomer news commentary on youtube)
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Sponsor Block is one of the essential YouTube plugins. Thanks to that I don't know half of these companies.
And Dearrow by the same creator.
What's dearrow? Downsides?
It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The 'arrow' was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait
It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring--everyone is clawing at your attention. "Pick me, pick me!"
There are different options but i have it set so the thumbnail is a random frame from the video. I think titles are 'normalized' and sometimes community generated.
It’s funny that DeArrow has lead to me watching more videos with super click bait titles. It’s almost as if actually using the content for the title instead of some vague notion or off content question is more likely to pick a video to watch.
I know there’s a reason channels do it but this is just my experience.
I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,
That's the bit I hate the most about YouTube premium. You still have ad! What's the fucking point is I have to get adblock for sponsors.
Drop every single add, including embedded and we can have a discussion.
I'm not going to be paying anyway though
another option is to exclusively watch small youtube channels
God forbid someone gets popular and starts making money off of their passion!
Missing Nebula
You missed Factor.
I'm missing Betterhelp, that one really expensive safety razor, and Bambulab for makers.
Better help is so shitty that it makes me turn off a video when my sponsor block isn't working. Bambulab at least makes something "good".
PCBWay, the Raid Shadowlegends of electrical engineering projects
I've actually never seen an elgato sponsorship
It's when somebody's elgato stops working so their logo remains the only thing on the screen for a minute or so
I'm proud to say that I block so many ads, this is the first time I'm seeing most of these names.
These sponsors are more and more being baked in the video themselves and not part of the system youtube use. That's why I use sponsorblock to automatically skip the portions of the sponsors.
This was put together by someone who doesn't watch any sports channels. Completely missing all the sports betting sponsors like Fanduel and Underdog.
You guys are seeing sponsors? Don't people use sponsorblock? I've never heard of (or seen) half these things.
You would be surprised how many people still watch with the normal YouTube ads, so never mind sponsorsblock. I guess the big tech companies succeeded by dumbing everything down to bite-sized technologies. So many younger people can't even comprehend the notion of ad blockers. They are basically on the same level as boomers when it comes to tech literacy.
You beat me to it.
My wife once asked me why is it so that on our HTPC there are no ads on YouTube and even on Netflix. Now she's hyped to use YouTube on her phone, tablet and her PC after I installed Revanced on her portables and Firefox with UBO+Sponsorblock on her PC.
I also remember frustration of our teachers in uni when they were showing some videos off youtube as an example for the class.
It may be not so obvious to us, but in reality most of internet users have no such tools installed on their systems. They raw dogging the internet.
There are some creators who's content ads have the same effort as the rest of the content. As a heavy ad block user this is the only way for advertisers to reach me and im okay with it.
sometimes there isnt labeled sponsor segments, I just usually skip increments of 30 seconds since most sponsor are either 30, 60 or 90 seconds
I'd love to see the YouTube analytics of a handful of really popular videos that have embedded sponsors. Even before the "jump ahead" feature, there must be a massive drop-off of people who just skip five or ten seconds ahead until the sponsor isn't showing again.
Idk if this is outdated or I just watch different content than OP, but I've been seeing mostly Helix & MeUndies the last year
Only seen meundies on two channels so far. Not come across helix yet. Yt is large enough for you to be able to just completely miss a sponsor.
I have come accross meundies when watching Alec Steele, amazing channel, would recommend, big enough to have sponskr segments labelled consistent too
MeUndies are unironically excellent.
Micromodal isn’t the sturdiest fiber so they do wear out eventually, but holy shit are they comfy.
They’re overpriced, sure, but kind of worth it IMO.
helix? like, the text editor???
Odoo is missing
What, the open source business software?
Yes, LTT for one was advertising it.
It was weird seeing a product I develop custom modules for being advertised by them lol. Also, ERPs have such a high entry cost to get them working properly for your business, I don't see who'd adopt one based on a YouTube sponsorship.
I mean, their advertising obviously worked. We all recognize those names even though more than half barely even do sponsorships anymore or not at all. Instead of making commercials look like memes they just flooded the internet and let us make the memes for them.
Is Magic Spoon still sponsoring web creators? Or did they stop when their cereal came to grocery stores?
I'm sorry y'all... I'm the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭
They're just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don't know about now
surprisef you know about the displate sponsorships, mabye i think they're rare because i use sponsorblock.
Wonder why the mattress folks have ads on a ton of the podcasts I listen to but it doesn't show up on yt much. You'd think a mattress ad would want a visual medium to display some features.
I'm not sure how people don't see these things as anti-ads. I wouldn't touch any of these companies with a 20 meter cattle prod.
I'm happy that creators get paid, sure, but if a company has to go out of their way to get someone to make ads for them, it doesn't inspire trust at all.
War Thunder. Better Help. Vesi.
This website analysed around 1 million videos, and found 13,232 brands. The one channel I watch, ended their sponsor with Huel, since it had lead in their drinks.
use SponsorBlock
Huh, I think I see pcbway/jlcpcb and various 3D printer/laser cutter companies 90% of the time I'm watching a channel with sponsors.
Sooo: which of them should i activly avoid and which are okay?
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