Trump ads all over YouTube

[Beartracks]

Was watching a lengthy car-repair video, and every ad interruption was some Trump-apologist thing, like an image of Trump with words like "Trump wants to know what you think about SOCIALISM!!1 Scary liberal policies... blah blah..." or a hipster-looking 20-something telling me that the mainstream media gets it all wrong and Obama is the problem...

Is this prevalent? Is this new? Are YouTube ads a good place where Democrats should be presenting facts and making the case against Republicans in general and Trump in particular?

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. As much as I watch Youtube, I've never seen an ad by rump and won't either. Ignore them.

[PSPS]

2. St. Petersburg ramps up their wuriltzer whenever necessary

[nolabear]

3. Vote down every video that has one.

Ain’t much but it’s something. And it’s telling it was a car repair video. They imagine Democrats not to do that sort of thing I suppose.

[Beartracks]

5. Oh - are the ads "selected" in some way by the uploader??

I'm not too savvy about YouTube monetization. I assumed it was like websites that just have placeholders for GoogleAds and then Google pushes ads into the spot with no involvement from the site's publisher. (But then, maybe I'm wrong about how that works. too!)

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[Kaleva]

6. It's Google and not the youtuber that puts on the ad. Should we boycott DU 'cause of the same ads?

[Beartracks]

11. IKR? Beacause we're on a site that mentions Trump and guns a lot, we get NRA and RNC ads.

I like to think, at least, that they are "wasted" ad impressions here, and I'm happy to help them waste their money.

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[Kaleva]

16. Well, I see no reason to downgrade a youtuber when I actually like the content.

Especially when they don't have any say on the ads.

[Newest Reality]

7. Do the video

providers have a say in what ads YouTube pumps?

I would think that YT would be using tracking and algorithms and that the ad content is out of the creator's hands.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I hear they pumped a few mill into YouTube ads...

I don't really do YT much, just on a spot basis, so I haven't seen a lot of them.

[Kaleva]

8. I saw some last night watching videos on making a Siberian log fire.

[msongs]

10. siberia russia putin trump. youtube cross references what u watch nt

[Kaleva]

13. I've seen them watching videos on how to can pickled beets.

Before I renewed my star membership, I'd see pro-Repub ads here at DU.

[Dream Girl]

9. Car repair video - just targeting the base. Male, white, high school education.

Not saying this is you but this is the likely profile of viewers of car repair videos...the goal is to cement the base. Critical time for Trump.

[Beartracks]

12. No, the goal was to cement my headliner back to the roof!

LOL

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[llmart]

14. Heard someone say yesterday on one of the news shows...

that as early as today his campaign was going to flood every possible place with Dump ads (aka propaganda).

[captain queeg]

15. Yes I've seen them all over lately.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. I see them all the time, too. nt

[SeattleVet]

18. There are ads on YouTube?

My browser's ad blockers must be very good at taking care of them - I never see one (other than when the person doing the video themselves doing an inline 'ad' for one of their content sponsors). I never get any interruptions or get forced to see anything before the videos start.

[Beartracks]

19. These ads interrupted the video. Just cut right in. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

20. Get adblocker.

[Initech]

21. Get Firefox and U Block. No more ads.

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