YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • ragas@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Youtubes ads are not delivered into the videostream. That would mean reencodingevery video for every user and would need an insane amount of computing power.

    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      That would mean reencodingevery video for every user and would need an insane amount of computing power.

      You actually don’t have to, on account of how adaptive video streaming works. It’s fully possible to serve a few segments of ad content mid-stream.