News: YouTube’s own blog has a post asking people for feedback on the new internal pop-up ads within select partner videos on YouTube (discussion in the prior post below). A number of the comments seem quite negative, as reported here. Here’s one YouTuber’s video critique.
Analysis: Personally, I like the internal ads, especially because, as I understand it, they will be deployed only on partner videos (and not the majority of videos on YouTube). I don’t find the ads intrusive, and YouTube’s got to find a way to make money. People can’t expect YouTube to offer everything for free to people, even free of any ads within videos. The internal ads are much better than pre-roll ads that are so common on commercial sites. If you watch television, you often see things scrolling on the bottom of the screen (like a news ticker) or watermarks at the corner of the screen. I usually just ignore those things.
