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Hi,
I've been working with hundreds of presentations using YouTube videos and had no trouble with ads till now (8/5/24).
I have a Premium YouTube account and have spoken with tech support at YouTube and Microsoft. The problem remains unresolved.
Help!
Alyson
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
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Microsoft can solve this problem.
As with many apps they can run their browser as a background invisible task.
This would handle the identity and YouTube premier account authentication issues.
All their "3rd party app" powerpoint would need to do is present the video which the browser is fully legally watching in the background.
Many Microsoft apps keep their scale down by running other existing apps in background. So they have precedent for this.
AND it only works for fully paid up Youtube add free subscribers so google should be happy too!
This must be why using online-PowerPoint in a browser doesn't have the problem. So they already have this fix they just need to bring it out of the cloud into desktop powerpoint.
I trim the downloaded youtube clips in Powerpoint (you cant trim a youtube clip unless it’s been downloaded—there are several free ones, just google “YouTube to mp4 free”). It’s labor intensive but you never have to worry about google slapping an ad in front of it.
That's looking like the only answer to all this.
The funny thing is, I haven't had ads on YouTube for years since I installed Google AdBlock. I am not at all used to the gawdawful interruption of ads, so when they happen it's like a slap in the face.
Question: Do you do the trimming in YouTube? Or have you got a video editor?
Hi John,
So sorry to hear your experiencing the same issues. Our church cancelled the premium subscription to google and we are purchasing music from worshiphouse media a much more expensive option but until there is a resolution that's our solution for now.
Only solution I’ve found is to use Chrome browser (which knows you have a youtube premium subscription) and access powerpoint through office.com. But first you’ll need to upload the file to ONeDrive (just to make things more complicated!!). And as many previous posters have noted, your ability to control powerpoint is very limited, particularly in advancing to the next slide after an embedded video.
It’s all Google’s fault, so I’m afraid complaining to Microsoft will not solve the problem.