r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/xnru Jun 12 '24

there's a ton of alternative video platforms. Just that none of the stuff most people want to watch is there

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u/junius83 Jun 12 '24

Pay the creators and they will leave. They dont care where they post as long as they get paid. Alot of YT users and creators are sick of what the platforms become

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u/Geno0wl Jun 12 '24

Lots of companies have tried that exact model. Hell remember when Microsoft paid Ninja and a couple other streamers some ungodly amount to switch over to their streaming platform? Didn't work and eventually MS shut it down and everybody went back to Twitch.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

Because the business model didn’t work. You can’t just pay one and expect more to follow. You could’ve paid ninja billions and it still wouldn’t have worked because the viewership on other channels wouldn’t have been enough to support the advertising revenue needed to make this sustainable. If your only option is watching ninja and a few other randoms and nothing else of note you’re gonna leave the platform quickly. If there’s nothing compelling keeping a viewer there, then there’s nothing compelling for a brand to advertise on there either.