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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] ilinamorato 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, I think the advertisers learned of ad blockers and started putting pressure on the new CEO. "Why am I paying you $X,000,000 for an ad buy that people can just block? And you're not doing anything about it?!"

So they put some development resources behind it, make some noise, get the internet in a tizzy, so the advertisers feel like they're being heard and listened to and some progress is being made. Then later they can say, "hey look, less than 1% of ads are being blocked on our platform but views have gone up by 6%, so we'll only increase the ad cost by 5% this year and call it even."

Boom, everyone wins and they can drop it, at the cost of just a little bit of their dignity and self-respect.

[–] pandacoder 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The advertisers are only paying for seen ads, not ads that are blocked.

And people that block ads weren't likely to click on any to begin with, which benefits advertisers because they get a higher clickthrough rate.

Google doesn't want to be providing a good service to anyone though, they want money. Low clickthrough with high views makes Google more money (and costs the advertisers more money and the viewers more time).

[–] ilinamorato -1 points 11 months ago

It doesn't matter whether they do or not, it's about what they think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure advertisers aren't paying for ads that get blocked.

[–] ilinamorato 0 points 11 months ago

It doesn't matter whether they do or not, it's about whether they think they do or not.