I am displeased with premium these days. My use of premium was to remove ads and give creators a little more money. The issue today is every single video will have a sponsor spot that is an ad. So here I am paying extra to get rid of ads and the creator just made their own. Using sponsor block has become a requirement to get past the wall of ads.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't mind in video sponsor spots because at least the creators are being paid directly for those. Personally, I just skip em or if it's a creator that makes them funny, I may just listen anyway.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those sponsor spots absolutely blow my mind. They're there, forever in the video no matter how times it's viewed. That's a lot of trust to have in an advertising relationship, both the creator (who is basically tattooing a person in a portrait they're painting with an ad) and company have to determine if it's enough compensation based on..... feels I guess lol. I'm pretty sure there is some after data but how do you know which videos take off or not? Then if there's any controversy, whole things a mess and I hope they get a lot for it.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I often think the same.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

I don't like these segments because they are either unavailable in my region or they are a promotion of a shitty product like Op**a **, that later will get called out for being from a terrible company.

[–] aido@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

They're adding skipping those to premium, too

[–] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

They're testing a function where it quickly skips to a point most people skip to effectively skipping sponsors. At least I got that experiment.