Sponsored videos devalue YouTube premium
Sorry if this post comes off as a rant thread. I have a legitimate concern about the increase of sponsored videos where the tuber basically circumvents my paid memebership by doing an ad in the actual video.
I do not like commercials. I do not like ads. I pay premium subscriptions to many platforms that I frequent for this exact purpose. I have been a YouTube premium subscriber for over a year and it’s starting to really annoy me that despite having paid for this service I am still subjected to advertisements. Sure I can skip ahead in the video but none the less I feel that my membership is being devalued.
Am I alone in this??
Posted Jun 29, 2020, 1:33 AM UTC
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I get where you're coming from, besides, when a premium user watches a video, the creator actually gets a percentage of the subscription fee based on how many premium views the video gets.
So you're actually already supporting the creator. It's totally understandable to not want sponsored content on top of that.
On the other hand, the creator made a choice to include sponsored content in his/her video. Knowing that it could rub viewers the wrong way but willingly made that choice for increased revenue. Which is an understandable choice as well because good videos take time and YouTube ads pay really little unless you have a massive amount of views. Everyone wants compensation for fair work even if they enjoy said work and everybody likes money.
However, besides leaving a comment, voicing your frustration to the creator, there's not much you can do other then skipping ahead or stop watching that content.
Fair enough,
I’m not annoyed by it to the point that I would stop supporting my favorite tubers. It would be nice if the new video segment feature would make it easier to skip these sections but then again I’m sure the sponsor wouldn’t want it being made easier to skip their ad. I feel like it’s a loose loose on this issue at the moment.
I like the way The Corridor Crew handle sponsorship. They have a brief one sentence statement at the start of the video thanking the sponsor and the actual sponsor-segment is left to the very end. This means I know who the sponsor is but I can simply click-away after watching the content (before the sponsor segment starts).
However, those who monetize their videos *and* have sponsors seem to be double-dipping and if they have a relentless series of mid-rolls, I simply don't watch and unsubscribe (if I was a subscriber before). I've unsubbed from a lot of channels in the past couple of weeks since YouTube started doubling-up on the unskippable ads in mid-roll breaks. Life is way too short for that sort of thing.
It started as a quick one line thank you the sponsor but I’m starting to see it turn into full blown ads.
As someone has said before I guess the best option is to comment on the video and unsubscribe if need be.
The more I think about it the less I’m willing to accept paying for a platform and still being subjected to ads. That’s literally reason I pay....