Why are ads suddenly appearing on my YouTube videos?

I was so hopeful your solution (playing the powerpoint presentation before class and then playing it again during class) would work in eliminating youtube ads, but at least in my case, it didn't.

Would welcome hearing from others if it's just me.

I also discovered that playing the YouTube before the show/class/service/whatever plays any ads then.

Keeping the PowerPoint open seems to holds that video without ads open in cache.

This has two effects. (1).Your audience doesn't have to watch ads (but you did) and (2) it confuses any testing process as it sometimes plays ads and sometimes doesn't on the same clip.

Hi Steve

Good idea. I've done that - using the video titled Srikandi - Indonesia's Female Warrior - and here's the results:

• In my computer (which has Premium Yotube), I loaded it into a Powerpoint presentation and there were no ads activated in the presentation
• I sent it it to my wife's computer (which doesn't have Premium) and it didn't generate any ads when played there either - and that was on the plaform, of course/.

So would this indicate that only material from Youtube partners attracts ads either on the Youtube platform or off it (as in Powerpoint), and since universities and other institute-type places that don't need to be Youtube partners. it's likely their stuff doesn't attract ads?

Chris

I've helped a few friends/relatives post things on YouTube, but only because I have only a marginally better idea what I'm doing than a complete newbie (aka my friends/relatives). 😁

I did a bit of poking around and found that if your a YouTube partner, you can turn on ads for your videos to earn money (ie, monetize your efforts), bit it's less clear whether YouTube will toss random ads into your content as a non-partner.

Here's a thought about that, though: Try linking to any of the videos here and see if they display ads in PPT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGLj6UrWLol1mvFClauwRyg

These are all pieces that I produced (I'm no pro at this by any means; don't mock me, please!). My boss then posts them on FB following my instructions. We never *explicitly* enable ads, so if any appear, it's YouTube's doing, which would mean that any content, deliberately monetized by the author or not, is subject to ad interruptions.

Hi Steve

From previous posts on this string, I recall someone saying that Youtube can monetarise (I think that means show ads with) any item that is loaded onto the platform, whether the content creator wants that or not. Apparently, that's in the standard conditions that all creators have to agree to. However, I imagine that Youtube's advertisers would prefer to have their ads shown with popular items (like, say, cat videos) than material that's only going to be of interest by a select few searchers - like the stuff I'm usually looking for (although I often get sidetracked by cat videos on the way!).

If I'm on the right track, there must be many Youtube content creators/providers who are only interested in getting exposure for their ideas, not money - and you'd expect they'd be just as upset by seeing ads appear before their material as content seekers like us are.

I tried to interrogate the gods at Youtube about this, but I didn't get anywhere really.

Do you or anyone else out there have an insights into this?