Comments on: Some suggestions for pre-roll

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:44:28 +0000

Daan, I agree with you and I think that YouTube would be well-served that YouTube user experience would me much better were they to pre-load the videos a little bit, since even most DSL under FIOS tends to skip and stop a few times as the YouTube ad tries desparately to download ahead of the viewer’s progress. That would be a perfect time.

By: Julie Anne

Julie Anne — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:09:31 +0000

Nice post. Just because you’ve moved your advertising from TV to the internet doesn’t mean you should keep interrupting me in the same obnoxious way.

Let us pray:
Relevancy. Relevancy. Relevancy.
Brevity.

Amen!

By: Daan Jansonius

Daan Jansonius — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:51:30 +0000

Good post. There is a site over here in Holland aimed at women who like to play online games. All these games are based on Flash and take a little time to load, the ads are shown during loading time.

Obviously loading is usually a lot quicker than the ads they show, but because the game runs fluently as soon as the ad is over most people are quite happy with it.

Youtube for example could do something similar, especially with its longer videos. As you rightly point out, nobody wants a 10/20/30 second ad for a 15 second video.

By: Jonathan Trenn

Jonathan Trenn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:07:24 +0000

Exactly.

You click on a video to hear about would could be a low level domestic terrorism attack and you get an ad first. Makes no sense. Pisses me off.

By: Mike Keliher

Mike Keliher — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:02:11 +0000

Glad I could serve as a one-time muse.

For what it’s worth, *I’m* not even as absolutely opposed as I was in that message. It was an outburst of dissatisfaction, but it’s not far off from how I feel most of the time.

Your suggestions above all make great sense.

Also, for the sake of context: I was trying to view a video clip of the security-camera footage of the Times Square explosion from the other day. I wasn’t in the mood to be pitched some investment advice. I just wanted to see the extent and impact of the explosion.

Thanks for the post.