YouTube Ads?

[Stankfoot]

What the hell is this?

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/RyanAdamsAds.jpg
Now the adds come up IN FRONT of the videos themselves?

Who is responsible? Ryan, his record company or "the man"?

[Doctor Z]

The Man.

It's YouTube, not the people who made the video. They saw other sites doing it, and I guess it's "worked", so now YouTube has been slowly easing it in for the last month or so.

[topless_mike]

youtube will slowly lose its niche. its really starting to fill with garbage sent in by anybody with a connection.

[RhinoinMN]

youtube will slowly lose its niche. its really starting to fill with garbage sent in by anybody with a connection.

qft. niche=T-cells

You tube Aids.

There is way too much competition with the likes of break.com and others for youtube to flourish if they muddle up the vids like that.

[LaBoob]

youtube will slowly lose its niche. its really starting to fill with garbage sent in by anybody with a connection.

seriously... instead of finding people doing really stupid things, I'm seeing people actually doing normal things and that's just unexceptable.

[RhinoinMN]

seriously... instead of finding people doing really stupid things, I'm seeing people actually doing normal things and that's just unexceptable.

I haven't searched it, but I bet there is a video of paint drying.

[LaBoob]

I haven't searched it, but I bet there is a video of paint drying.

Ya know... I bet you were kidding, but...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u1VEY7ndKCs

673 results came up

[RhinoinMN]

Ya know... I bet you were kidding, but...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u1VEY7ndKCs

673 results came up

I really wasn't kidding. I'm sure some dippy thought it would be cool and original in a WHACKY sort of way.

pathetic.

Now if someone wants to pull their own fingernails out.... that is what these video sharing sites are for.