Something in Google/YouTube's books is horribly wrong. I feel surprised there aren't major articles about "something seems very unhealthy at YouTube." The last 12 months of advertising on YouTube has taken a nosedive:
- Regularly see static ads for fake Mario Android games that are an OBVIOUS violation of Nintendo copyright.
- Regularly see snakeoil ads. Complete garbage that Google used to be too good for. Now they'll take anyone's money.
- Regularly get an entire page of ads when I search for something on mobile. Not a single actual result until I scroll below 3 rows of ads.
- Ad breaks have seemingly doubled.
- Unskippable ads were 5, then 7, now up to 15 seconds.
- Regularly see static ads for fake Mario Android games that are an OBVIOUS violation of Nintendo copyright.
- Regularly see snakeoil ads. Complete garbage that Google used to be too good for. Now they'll take anyone's money.
- Regularly get an entire page of ads when I search for something on mobile. Not a single actual result until I scroll below 3 rows of ads.
- Ad breaks have seemingly doubled.
- Unskippable ads were 5, then 7, now up to 15 seconds.