"If you manually place your ad breaks, avoid placing breaks at disruptive points
Ah, yes, because the auto-place system is so good at choosing non-disruptive moments like <squints> 44 seconds into the video.
Ah, yes, because the auto-place system is so good at choosing non-disruptive moments like <squints> 44 seconds into the video.
Seriously @TeamYouTube, I can't tell which I hate worse, the midrolls less than a minute into a video or the midrolls immediately before the credits, but both have to go.
What's happening is so many creators like to have a cold open, then play a small title card, and that creates exactly the kind of pause that the auto-placement looks for. But the system isn't considering how users actually use the system.
An ad break less than a few minutes into the video (I would honestly say 5 minutes, personally, minimum) is *extremely* disruptive, and the new system clearly doesn't care if the viewer was just served an ad as a pre-roll.
Like what the actual hell @TeamYouTube?! In what world is this placement algorithm acceptable?
There's no way to efficiently check each and every old video, it's a lot of clicks and a lot of scrolling per-video, so I've mostly just checked my most popular videos and handle others as I happen to have reason to check them. It's exhausting.
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