<![CDATA[Google needs to stop being nice and start charging advertisers for distribution - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google needs to stop being nice and start charging advertisers for distribution - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google needs to stop being nice and start charging advertisers for distribution]]> Ah... Come on, Jackson... You know that whenever we're watching an episode of Monk or Grey's Anatomy, whenever that commercial for the cruise line plays, we all "look over there", even though there's no "over there" on a full screen. Or, if we're watching something else and that car ad comes up, the one where they just present a menu of eight video shorts, we always stop what we're watching, so that we can watch something completely unrelated. If all this is true, why wouldn't you think that we all won't click on an overlay which'll cause our chosen YouTube to stop, so that we can watch a trailer or some other commercial?

I mean, why should Playboy pay YouTube to host their Playmate Search, when the State of Utah or some other advertiser will underwrite it with an overlay? (Note: As stated in the NYTimes article, the overlays don't show on embeds and my experiments show that they don't always come-up via a direct link, plus the State of Utah is just one advertiser out of several featured over Holly Madison's introductory video, but if you're interested: The overlays for Holly's video do seem to show, if that replay isn't just showing an Adwords box, if you go through this page. Just click on the topmost video and hit reload until the tell-tale yellow marker appears)

I mean, I'm watching a Playboy production, so why wouldn't I pause the video so that I can watch a "Visit Utah" or an ad for vodka?

Magister

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