Increasingly annoyed by increasingly intrusive ads on YouTube. (As Mark Cuban just put it: "YouTube's Desperation... Pre rolls, overlays, display ads, you name it. And thats before you get
to the inventory the creators of the videos insert and overlay in the
content itself. Does anyone else out there think that the advertising
in youtube videos is more intrusive than any other form of content?")
I pay $170/mo to shitty TimeWarner for cable+internet. That's >$2k/yr. Tell me people won't pay up for what they want if that's how things are set-up. Tell me there aren't the 5% of YouTube fanatics who wouldn't pay YouTube... enough to end these ridiculous ads. I'm not suggesting the free internet & the free youtube shouldn't be free for all, but as Bloomberg says, at least Ask For The Order... and don't turn The Commons (the service the President-Eelect uses for his weekly address) into a bastardized, commercialized crap-hole.
For that matter....
Dear Ev at Twitter,
Don't spend time figuring out how Twitter can serve business. Figure out how to charge the top 5% twitter fanatics $20/mo so you can focus 100% on serving the people. It's easier to get 50,000 people to pay you $20/mo than getting 1,000 businesses to pay you $1000/mo. (Goog is the exception because people are searching for businesses. Unless people are searching, for or benefiting from the participating businesses, beware the ad biz.) Most importantly, it lets you focus on making the best product/service possible -- and avoid the kind of rising vitriol growing against annoying YouTube ads.
I pay $170/mo to shitty TimeWarner for cable+internet. That's >$2k/yr. Tell me people won't pay up for what they want if that's how things are set-up. Tell me there aren't the 5% of YouTube fanatics who wouldn't pay YouTube... enough to end these ridiculous ads. I'm not suggesting the free internet & the free youtube shouldn't be free for all, but as Bloomberg says, at least Ask For The Order... and don't turn The Commons (the service the President-Eelect uses for his weekly address) into a bastardized, commercialized crap-hole.
For that matter....
Dear Ev at Twitter,
Don't spend time figuring out how Twitter can serve business. Figure out how to charge the top 5% twitter fanatics $20/mo so you can focus 100% on serving the people. It's easier to get 50,000 people to pay you $20/mo than getting 1,000 businesses to pay you $1000/mo. (Goog is the exception because people are searching for businesses. Unless people are searching, for or benefiting from the participating businesses, beware the ad biz.) Most importantly, it lets you focus on making the best product/service possible -- and avoid the kind of rising vitriol growing against annoying YouTube ads.
