YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads

YOUTUBE FANS RANT. THREATEN TO LEAVE OVER NEW ADS
[SOURCE: InfoWorld, AUTHOR: Dan Nysted]
YouTube might need to rethink their new InVideo advertising scheme based on initial feedback to the popular video sharing Web site. Most users responding to a YouTube blog post asking for feedback gave the idea a resounding thumbs down, and one even made a video to share his displeasure. The responses, a total of 132 as of this writing, may best be summarized by the first post: "Yuck" wrote user 'quepasakoolj18', of Oro Valley, Arizona. The new InVideo ads, launched by Google's YouTube division on Wednesday, start as an overlay on the bottom 20 percent of a video, and people can click and watch the advertisement if they want to. If the user does not click on the overlay, the ad will simply disappear. They are designed to interfere as little as possible with viewing. If a user clicks on the advertisement, the video they were watching pauses while the ad plays.
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