The Ads Are Coming, What Now?

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I had a lengthy phone call with RU-vid about their ad changes, which they're rolling out this month, and discussing ways to continue from here
Link to the form for tracking ads after ASMR (this goes for any video as long as it's ASMR, so it doesn't need to have the hashtag forsleep): forms.gle/vqSH...
Link to the petition: www.change.org...
A little update since uploading this video (5-Nov-2023), I am no longer able to disable postroll ads from now on. The checkbox still appears but I can no longer click it. This is also what will happen to older videos when you change the monetization settings.
Thanks to these lovely ASMR Creators for showing support:
‪@JBGreenASMR‬ ‪@edafoxxASMR‬ ‪@JocieBASMR‬ ‪@JojosASMR‬ ‪@SouthernASMRSounds‬ ‪@catplantASMR‬ ‪@Mark_ASMR‬ ‪@softlygaloshes‬ ‪@ShiverMeTingles‬ ‪@ASMRfleur‬ ‪@alexsasmrchannel‬

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@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Just fyi, this is the first video where I haven't been able to disable postroll ads anymore. The checkbox still appeared as normal but wasn't clickable anymore

@elizabethtownsend9998 10 месяцев назад

... which is interesting as I didn't get any ads after the video (and I'm not a YT Premium user so it's not due to that).

@twztid13 10 месяцев назад

Which is ironic, because I got my 1st RU-vid post roll ad on this video.... (irony was because the video was about getting rid of them. Not meaning it regarding your comment here). Too bad u didn't have #forsleep on this vid. Does it need to have that hashtag to submit it to the Google form? Or any ASMR video? Not sure i should submit this one, because it wasn't an actual ASMR video, but they didn't know that. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

@@elizabethtownsend9998 the ads won't always be served thankfully, but like I said even having them half the time would be terrible after ASMR

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

@@twztid13 I intentionally didn't give this video #forsleep because it's not for sleep, but videos don't need to have the hashtag to add to the form. Still though, since this video isn't ASMR it shouldn't be added to the form anyway. I added a clarification at the link in the description :)

@SignageAndSloganeering 10 месяцев назад

The post roll ad even on an informative video about the annoyance of post roll ads is annoying af, obviously. Thank you Luuk for all the time you are giving to help the ASMR community! I watch ASMR to help with severe PTSD, panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder and yes, sleep. The post roll ads for me are stressful as someone who suffers with insomnia because once I've been woken up abruptly anxiety and disregulation take over and I have zero chance of getting back to sleep. I think RU-vid execs probably assume someone who is annoyed by ads will buy premium but negative influence does not prompt me to purchase anything.

@strawberry1emonade 10 месяцев назад

I'm so upset that RU-vid keeps adding more and more ads. I remember when you could watch multiple videos without a single ad and now there is one with every video. I am glad creators like you are speaking up and trying to get RU-vid to be reasonable when it comes to post-video ads. I have already fallen asleep to videos and woken up unpleasantly to some blaringly loud ad at the end.

@WhisperedDelightsASMR 10 месяцев назад

It is incredibly aggressive for smaller channels as well. It’s like a deterrent. I subscribe to smaller channels and the smallest ones have the most ads sprinkled in. It’s awful.

@Eprosis 10 месяцев назад

Sadly, this development has killed my ability to use ASMR on RU-vid as a sleep aid. I'm getting ads before a vid, sometimes multiple times throughout a vid, and then at the end. I have PTSD and stress-related brain damage, being jolted out of rest by ads is _extremely_ punishing. I appreciate all of your hard work on this matter, Luuk. You're a complete gem. Thank you.

@ItsLunaRegina 10 месяцев назад

Use an adblocker.

@pardonjoon8835 10 месяцев назад

@@ItsLunaRegina cant on mobile

@asmrlinn9441 10 месяцев назад

If on mobile, you can use Brave browser

@cloud_appreciation_society 10 месяцев назад

@@pardonjoon8835 The mobile version of Firefox allows add-ons including adblockers. There are also more complicated solutions to watching ad free RU-vid on mobile but this approach has worked well for me.

@overclocker3164 10 месяцев назад

@@pardonjoon8835 possible on android. No idea if this exist on ios though

@Mark_ASMR 10 месяцев назад

I’ll report any ads I see and use the hashtag “for sleep”

@AllieCat23 10 месяцев назад

Got an ad at the end of the video. I'm so scared for my sleep already.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

To be fair this video isn't #forsleep, but I'm definitely worried about ads showing after whatever ASMR I watch tonight 🥲

@lil.blue24 10 месяцев назад

We tried. You were amazing for doing that.

@sombruhcolomar7254 10 месяцев назад

to combat this, ASMR videos need to be louder so the ads appear quieter, and youtube needs to do what twitch does: LOWER THE VOLUME OF ADS ON VIDEOS TAGGED WITH ASMR/SLEEP (though this can be abused by non-asmr videos, it still shows the ads regardless. and lets be real, so many ads are insanely loud for no reason)

@kimopaddyovich 10 месяцев назад

Thanks from me too. You efforts are much appreciated.

@fouroverseven7799 10 месяцев назад

Holy crap… this has already happened to me a few times. I fall asleep to an ASMR video and then I’m jolted awake by an ad.

@natgl11 10 месяцев назад

thank you for all the effort you've put into this. sadly, I think youtube doesn't actually care, but perhaps I'm too cynical. i think one possible solution would be to make the asmr videos louder so that there isn't a big change in volume when the ads come in (i usually watch regular videos on volume 3-5/15 and the ads aren't louder in those and asmr around volume 10/15 because they're much quieter, so the ads blast my ears when i encounter them). of course, I don't know if that's possible without it negatively affecting the quality of the audio, background white noise, etc., so it may not be a solution at all.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Also not a bad idea, but I'm not sure what effects this would have in ASMR playlists where the new videos now have much louder volume that might also wake you up. Still, I think if you disable autoplay it might be a good solution :)

@ATREIDESDUNCAN88 10 месяцев назад

They should play an ad at the beginning and place low volume adds at the beginning. A quick add would be great that way no skipping. Advertisment for sleeping products.

@Mariss242 10 месяцев назад

Apparently there are modded versions of RU-vid or like... 3rd party players that play RU-vid videos like LibreTube? Something to consider for those who want to block the ads for free.

@boanamoana 10 месяцев назад

노력해줘서 감사해요..😊

@kimkenickie 10 месяцев назад

If you have ad block you can watch with no ads but the downside is you don't contribute to paying your favourite artists since you don't get ANY ads.

@canis_majoris 10 месяцев назад

Fighting the good fight but sadly this was always how it was gonna go. I like that you are focused on possible solutions. Inspiring stuff.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Had to try, at least it got me in contact with them for future communication

@canis_majoris 10 месяцев назад

@@ObviouslyASMR Or just get hired there and take it over from the inside.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

@@canis_majoris I'd consider this after I finish my master's degree haha

@canis_majoris 10 месяцев назад

@@ObviouslyASMR Ah. For some reason I had it in my head you were already done.

@MK-Hogan 10 месяцев назад

And there’s a super loud ad at the end of this video. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I hope this doesn’t drive people to get YT premium. They’ve turned into an awful platform between the insane censorship and ad obsession. I’m not giving them money on top of that.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

yeah.. sadly I can't prevent ads at the end of my videos anymore, unless I forfeit all revenue (which means RU-vid then gets 100% of premium revenue from my videos). Looking into all the other ways to mitigate them though

@올드보이-x8t 10 месяцев назад

나는 유튜브 프리미엄을 사용하고있지만 유튜브 프리미엄을 사용하지않는 사람들은 피해를 보겠네요 오슬희님같이 자신의 의견을 표현하는 asmr유튜버들이 더 늘어났으면 좋겠어요😊

@zuhahaASMR 10 месяцев назад

Yes ads pre, post , mid roll during videos are all disrupting for Asmr listeners. I also want to add that i just made an asmr channel and even tho im not monetized, somehow i found mid roll ads during my video! How is that possible?

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

That shouldn't be possible 😮 can you show proof of this with a screenshot for example and send it to my email ObviouslyASMR@gmail.com? I can see if I can get an answer from RU-vid

@zuhahaASMR 10 месяцев назад

@@ObviouslyASMR i filled the the form you provided with the video link. But ya I can email it to you in a few days.

@Maryam_20001 10 месяцев назад

Hey thanks for everything

@germanbenzdriver 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your effort. 🙏🏼 I have a little tip not to get woken up by ads at the end: set a timer that ends a few seconds before the video and instead of using a signal tone you can choose “stop playback”, that’s how I do it. Eventually this can help others. 🙏🏼 Ads in between or at the end of ASMR Videos absolutely ruin my experience too because I use them to fall asleep.

@JJMedusa 10 месяцев назад

-- I don’t understand. I already get ads before and after any type of RU-vid videos that I watch, and this has been going on for months already. ASMR videos included. So I don’t understand what this change is all about, because it’s already been happening.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

If you watch any of my older videos that should not be possible. Not all creators disabled postroll ads even when it was an option though

@WhisperedDelightsASMR 10 месяцев назад

I’m not sure if you’ve addressed this but small channels seem to be getting hit the worst. Not only do small channels not get monetized but our channels typically have the most ads on them. I’ve subscribed to channels at times with less than 100 subscribers only to get hit with 2-3 ads per video. This kind of thing prevents growth from the very start and uses the smallest of channels for their ad bank.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Yup I only recently discovered this, it'd be amazing if there was a way to fix that

@junosgladius 10 месяцев назад

Is Patreon not a solution? I wonder if setting up a free one or even putting regular videos as free on an already existing one could be the solution to not having any ads? I use Patreon as an example because that's the only website I know that allow people to upload videos hassle free but if there's any other platform, maybe that could be the answer as well.

@CheshireCat_Moon 10 месяцев назад

The big wigs have way too much faith in their algorithm. As borked as it already is, not holding my breath that it’ll “learn” anything useful.. Thank you for trying, though

@Gik1618 10 месяцев назад

Get yourselves on a different video streaming platform that isn't so heavily corporatised!

@xamber7879 10 месяцев назад

Je bent een held Luuk 👏🏻

@Jesuusm_ 10 месяцев назад

Handsome ❤

@Matt_052 10 месяцев назад

unpopular opinion but, youtube premium isn't that bad

@da.j.9096 10 месяцев назад

If you can afford it... I can't afford another monthly subscription I already struggle to pay rent and food.

@domenicavallone28 10 месяцев назад

I wish there were ads that were done in an asmr style so this way ads can still occur but they won’t disturb the peace one has when watching asmr videos!

@pinkysaurusrawr 10 месяцев назад

so much agree

@andrew_asmr309 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, that is a win-win for both the user and youtube. Fort a minute there, some brands did do ASMR ads but it didn't seem to catch on. This should be more in the conversation.

@Junispro31 10 месяцев назад

I remember there were those blenders adverts done in asmr style. And it was actual good asmr too. Proves to show that asmr ads do indeed grasp the viewers attention.

@nemosomen 10 месяцев назад

Throwback to when nameless nomad actually did an asmr ad that ran for awhile (actually how I found the channel!)

@nolwennroberts7903 10 месяцев назад

very smart !

@violett7237 10 месяцев назад

RU-vid has become so obsessed with ads in the last few years. First unskippable ads, then they doubled the amount, then both at the same time and now this. They really want to push Premium, don't they?

@lilnapqueen 10 месяцев назад

Hey Luuk, we appreciate your efforts. They have not gone unnoticed. I'm also proud of our community for rallying behind you and showing support in droves. There is strength in numbers :) Unfortunately, this was the nail in the coffin for me as far as RU-vid's increasingly disruptive ad implementations go, and I've decided to download a browser that has a built-in ad blocker. I am not okay with paying RU-vid simply to remove something that wasn't always there in the first place. I will find a way to support you and other ASMRtists monetarily offsite. Sweet dreams to you and all others watching💤

@globaltraveller 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for all your doing Luuk. We all owe you one. It doesn’t seem like everything is lost and the case is completely hopeless. Keeping an open mind, but with some scepticism of course!

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Yeah I think we'll find our way through this somehow. I'll see if I can gather some solutions

@LeiSnows 10 месяцев назад

You poor people are so dumb. Just get youtube premium duh. Stop worrying about ads at all.

@vanhuihyul 10 месяцев назад

유튜브가 정책을 바꿨으면 정말정말정말 좋겠어요...😢😢 asmr 듣는 중간에 시끄러운 광고가 나올 생각만 하면 진짜 끔찍해요😵

@asmrmixies 10 месяцев назад

The asmrtists need to make their own app/site! Nobody knows what we need more than you guys. Thank you for all your efforts! I’m glad to know RU-vid heard us.

@Uhohohno319 10 месяцев назад

Gibi and some other ASMRtists used to Zees but it closed down for some reason

@WhisperedDelightsASMR 10 месяцев назад

THIS. ^ The biggest names in asmr could probably get it done but it’s an issue of biting the hand that fed and feeds them. Highly unlikely anyone would do so.

@dogcounter 10 месяцев назад

“We hear you loud and clear…we just don’t care”

@MK-Hogan 10 месяцев назад

Exactly what I thought. 😒

@tonydetwiler2624 6 месяцев назад

yep corporate google at its finest i try to avoid them at all costs i still have the google account but i use other ad free services to use and access it

@EsmeShepherd 10 месяцев назад

Hey but kudos to you for going above and beyond to try and counter this, you were the one leading the movement and getting people to speak up about this, and the outcome would've been worse if you hadn't, we really appreciate you trying all you could

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Esme ❤️

@LeiSnows 10 месяцев назад

You poor people are so dumb. Just get youtube premium duh. Stop worrying about ads at all.

@AppleFrogTomatoFace 10 месяцев назад

This might sound silly, but how about make the asmr vid with base sound very loud so ppl have to listen asmr at low volume, so when normal ad shows up the volume is low that won’t affect the listener. Generally, asmr vids are quiet that you have to up the volume then when ad comes out it is so loud that disturbs the listener. Then creator won’t have to worry about ads and earn more money and also help ppl. And put a disclaimer to lower the volume.

@sannedg4293 10 месяцев назад

My thought exactly!

@kyokazuto 10 месяцев назад

A few channels seem to be doing this already, it also would help with forgetting to lower the volume after watching asmr

@TomWhoASMR 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately that'll reduce the audio quality quite a bit because you'll introduce a lot more background noise and hiss into it by ramping up the gain on mics or increasing the volume in post. There's also a risk of clipping and distortion which will be unpleasant to listen to.

@augustbenedict 10 месяцев назад

Aww, Luuk. That sucks, but I’m proud of you for raising awareness. Like I said in the past, I use premium so it won’t affect me, but I find it ridiculous that they’re taking away the option for creators to enable or disable post roll ads. Anyway, thanks again for the work that you did for the community! And belated happy birthday as well! ❤

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Thanks August ☺️

@LeiSnows 10 месяцев назад

You poor people are so dumb. Just get youtube premium duh. Stop worrying about ads at all.

@GeekFilter 10 месяцев назад

Ugh They heard us loud and clear = They are ignoring us. Not that this is the best solution, but if you have an apple device you can set a timer to end say 1 min before the end of the video. Under 'When timer ends' select 'Stop playing'. I assume Andriod has something similar.

@blueshepard7 10 месяцев назад

Haven't heard of that in Android (I got one) but you were very nice to help some by giving that tip ❤ lots of blesses

@TomWhoASMR 10 месяцев назад

Here's a possible work-around: We can add 7 hours of white noise or something after a normal ASMR video so that even if an ad plays at the end, the viewer will likely already be awake by then.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

I like this idea! Would take a while to render but good solution

@sheelfjohnson 10 месяцев назад

I love that idea! Or I wonder if the creator could put a time stamp when ads will play and people could set a sleep timer or have the phone turn off before that. Does anybody know if that's possible? 🤔

@MK-Hogan 10 месяцев назад

Good concept but I think 7 hours is excessive. My phone’s battery will die by morning. 😂

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

@@MK-Hogan lol that's also a fair point, I always charge at night so I didn't think of that. But also if the ad appears two hours after I've fallen asleep I'll still wake up 🥲

@Drstrange3000 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for trying to make a positive change for the ASMR community! Shame it didn't go through, but I hope more and more people keep pushing and it get resolved one of these days.

@pinkysaurusrawr 10 месяцев назад

Impressed & grateful how much energy you have and still are putting into this. Your conversations with RU-vid sound pretty circular - if the algorithm will eventually learn not to play post-rolls on ASMR, why not just let creators choose that up front...? Thanks for your hard work, I'll be sure to use the google form if the chance arises

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Completely agree; I brought this up and they said they don't think every single user will mind ads after ASMR, so that's what they want the model to learn. Don't know if it's worth the investment and risk if you ask me

@da.j.9096 10 месяцев назад

@@ObviouslyASMR If they said that it means they don't understand ASMR at all... I think they were just coming up with every and any excuse to justify this.

@Chancel388 10 месяцев назад

They just want everyone to try to get premium, little do they know most people will just not use youtube as much (for ASMR anyways). I have premium but they just increased the price to 15.99!! Like what is going on?

@blueshepard7 10 месяцев назад

THIS. THIS AND THIS. They got no idea what they are up to.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

I think with this amount of ads premium will actually be less profitable per user. But yup, like I showed in my last update people aren't going to cooperate

@da.j.9096 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for trying. They say they listened to you but let's be honest, they didn't. It's all about profits, and now you have to be wealthy enough to pay for Premium to enjoy ASMR. ASMR has become a huge community on RU-vid, but not big enough in their eyes. Hopefully this backfires on them. Maybe someone comes up with a separate video hosting platform target for ASMR and all the business migrates over there. sigh.

@radumoraru02 10 месяцев назад

WHAT IF everyone stops using RU-vid for a month and scare the shit out of RU-vid until they leave us alone with their ads. I don’t like the fact that they make you pay for no ads. Make me pay for other things but not for ads. If every video gets 0 views what are they gonna do? And i don’t even want to think about the “influencers” that are doing this as a full time job. Ultimately, the power is in our hands.

@dyyyuuuu4978 10 месяцев назад

그놈의 광고때문에 유튜브의 본질이 깨지는 것 같다..... 😢

@TomRipley7350 10 месяцев назад

This is sad. RU-vid ASMR has helped me immensely over the past five to ten years but I’m increasingly going for Alexa’s relaxing sounds because it’s the only way you can guarantee you’re not going to be abruptly woken by some blaring obtrusive advert. The unbridled greed of this corporation is staggering. Their profits are so huge that the people driven away are expendable collateral damage.

@sheelfjohnson 10 месяцев назад

I listen to the Sleep With Me podcast on my music player app with no ads and it's so helpful. If people have alternatives, they'll abandon youtube if the boundaries keep getting pushed. They're already mining our data - what more do they need???

@DreamWondersASMR 10 месяцев назад

This proves how real you are! Thank you so much for your effort and trying your best! And thank you for your big part in this beautiful ASMR community

@stormbornapostle5188 10 месяцев назад

RU-vid's algorithms can't even figure out that me downvoting and channel-blocking a dozen shorts about something means that I'm not interested. Have zero faith in their claims.

@joyortuno8070 10 месяцев назад

a tip that may help people is setting a timer on your phone and clicking the "When Timer End: Stop Playing" option (scroll to the bottom of all the other sounds to find it). this will interrupt the video before it ends and it won't start playing again. unfortunately, i think this only works for ios, but it has helped me a lot :)

@MK-Hogan 10 месяцев назад

That stops a RU-vid video that’s playing when the timer goes off? 😮

@Silverity 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for taking this on, as someone with a research background I love how data-driven you are and that you're coming at this with objective facts and numbers. I'm bookmarking the link for reporting postroll ads so I can contribute :)

@asmrfoodieuk7965 10 месяцев назад

How do they know it won't play at the end of asmr? Some of us use white noise which isn't listed as asmr on yt. This is ridiculous!

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

They hope their models will learn from data that viewers don't respond well to ads after relaxing videos (the data contains information about how many times an ad is clicked, how many times it's skipped etc). So basically they can't guarantee those ads won't be served

@4RedJohn 10 месяцев назад

This is what happens when a corporation has a monopoly.

@__Liza__ 10 месяцев назад

I'm against ads at the end of asmr videos but I just know I will not hear a thing 😭😅😴 and even if I do hear sounds while sleeping my brain makes up reasons for it in my dreams and I don't wake up. However some asmr videos have really low volume so I increase it and ads are usually very loud. So maybe it will help if asmrtists increase the volume a bit.

@jay81kay 10 месяцев назад

I find the whole idea of post roll ads a little strange, unless you're watching a few videos in a playlist, who's actually gonna stick around for a post roll ad? The video has finished.

@mcqueendroid 10 месяцев назад

I stoped ASMR cause of this problem. So now I just put it on SPA radio on Apple Music, to help drift me to sleep.

@Suelve20 10 месяцев назад

I would watch that Luuk vs RU-vid fight gameplay. I bet your skill “Whisper” would be super effective against them! Good editing on this short video 😌

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! ❤️

@tsuyamilk 10 месяцев назад

i like to use the automatic turn off feature on my devices on longer asmr vids so I'll fall asleep and my device will turn off before the vid ends

@LeCrenn 10 месяцев назад

This makes me not want to post any videos of my own.

@vina 10 месяцев назад

Why not just use yt premium?😊

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

For some it's a good option but others are unable to pay

@KingCharles25 10 месяцев назад

Tracking via a Google form is a genius idea! Thanks for keeping us informed 🙏🏿

@cenifh 10 месяцев назад

damm what a sexy voice. I'm really sorry the change still went through, but at least you fought for it. One loud add at the end and you just lost 20-30 minutes of relaxation.. sadly they don't care

@timefliesaway999 10 месяцев назад

I remember seeing a meme about 5 years ago or so, saying that “one day we’ll have the video as ads” (= so many ads in between that’ll feel like you’re watching a playlist of ads and in-between the actual video you wanted to see), and I think RU-vid took this as a challenge.

@BTNight 10 месяцев назад

I have always had somewhat mixed feelings about using an ad blocker because I obviously respect all my favourite RU-vid creators and want them to receive every cent of ad revenue money they can get, but this is basically RU-vid forcing me to use one... I should probably cough up and donate to people's Patreons and such.

@romanjoseph2072 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for showing immense love to the ASMR community, Luuk. You will forever be an icon no matter what. Glad I came across your channel and I never left since. Thank you so much for all your hard work. 💕

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Roman ☺️

@nawr494 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for everything you're doing, you're doing an amazing job. Let's all keep trying. Asmr is such a huge safe space for me, I'm not ready to lose asmr youtube... but do we need to start talking about alternatives maybe? Maybe soundcloud or blog sites like tumblr?

@SilentKME 8 месяцев назад

For STUDENTS: please be aware that premium is heavily discounted for you. Where I'm from, my premium sub is only 7 dollars a month. I use ASMR as my form of relaxation since I don't smoke or drink, and I also use is as a sleep aid. Premium will be a must going forward if you're like me so make sure to get the discounts.

@May_003 10 месяцев назад

I loved your suggestion to add some kind of # to differentiate actual ASMR videos for sleep from videos talking about ASMR or reacting to it. I really think actual ASMR videos SHOULD be the exception. otherwise youtube doesn't gaf about their audience nor their own platform (ASMR is one of the biggest categories on this platform, it's not like we're a tiny community, some videos reach millions and millions of views). this will cause people to leave this platform (and creators too). some people only open youtube to watch ASMR to sleep. Anyway, I hope youtube takes the time to look into this and really be specific on the videos they're gonna put ads on. this will determine whether they care about people who use this platform or not.

@soumyareema 10 месяцев назад

Platforms are getting incredibly greedy these days. This is RU-vid's way of manipulating the desperation of ASMR community to encourage them to buy Premium. And it's precisely for their digusting greed and obvious manipulation that I will NOT support premium.

@gemstonesparkle7915 10 месяцев назад

A handsome guy and engaged in a cause… 🥰

@jeffreysuhr7333 8 месяцев назад

We all lost. Thank you for your efforts. I see the cause was also taken up by some other ASMRtists. Obviously we are not against RU-vid as a platform -- it has changed millions of lives. The choices they have now placed on both creators and users is unfortunate. Maybe advertisers will opt to place their ads only at the beginning of videos where they will actually be viewed and actioned rather than a full (volume) spectrum attention grabbing disturbance more likely to cause derision than sales if occurring at the middle or end. ASMR is for relaxation and sleep, advertising dollars are wasted if your audience doesn't view/hear the message or, worse is not receptive to it by being roused.

@seangarcia5225 10 месяцев назад

Echoing what everyone else is saying but thank you for doing so much for our community You don’t have to, so seeing you fight the fight is commendable! More related to the topic on hand, I haven’t realized how annoying RU-vid ads are since some changes that prevent ad blocker from working. Ads in the middle of the video and everything I’m at the point of wanting to stop watching RU-vid and just paying for another service where the money goes directly to the creators

@PhoenixPhire22 10 месяцев назад

I don’t get why ads at the end of the videos are a thing anyway. Who watches ads after the vid is over? I close the vid and watch something else. In the event I do have the ads playing, I’m doing something else and not able to skip or close the vid so I’m not watching it anyway. I never understood ads after a video. Does anyone actually sit there after their video has played and watch ads?

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Completely agree 😂

@May_003 10 месяцев назад

I wanna thank YOU personally for being so vocal about this and raising your voice against this sudden change that yt just decided to do 😭 why not just ads in the beginning? my god ... anyways I want to thank you cause i haven't seen one other creator speaking up against this, it shows me that you truly care about your audience and the work you do here xoxo we took the L, but i'll continue watching! (i'll just remind myself to stop the video near the end lmao) sending u love ! ❤

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Thanks May, that means a lot ☺️

@bakddandan 10 месяцев назад

유튜브해줘서 감사합니다..❤

@Katdis1 10 месяцев назад

All to push people in to buying Premium to be Ads Free. First the unskipabel Ads and the Number of Ads played goes up and now you aren't even able to watch content for sleep because the Ads are waking you up again. I already woke up for some times and changed to a Musik platform for days were I needed to stay asleep. Its sad to just hear the sound and not see the creator but at the and when you start drifting into sleep and the Ads start blasting it's more annoying. I still try to support my favourite creators on RU-vid but it's not as often as before and I think it will go down more.

@sapphire3989 8 месяцев назад

If you are using an iPhone, you can set a timer that will go off just before the video ends and select „stop playing“ as the alarm so the video will automatically stop playing before an ad can come up

@phoebethebraixen742 10 месяцев назад

What if asmrtists say or do things in the beginning of their video to get their video demonetized? That way there's no post-roll ads!

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

It's still possible to manually demonetize our videos, but many depend on this income, or to be fair many don't see this as enough of a problem to lose all their revenue. I'm looking into different solutions so creators can keep earning whilst maintaining the viewer experience

@themightycarrotknight 10 месяцев назад

I would rather pay for a separate streaming service to watch the content I want to watch than give RU-vid any money. I refuse to give a single cent to money hungry greedy people who do not give a shit about the creators and users who got the platform to where it is today. RU-vid pushes so many scams and political ads that are just factually incorrect or dangerous. I doubt it’s that legal to prevent your users from defending themselves against fraud and malware promoted on your website.

@davidl9781 10 месяцев назад

I"d rather they play the ads at the start of the video. They could even target ads of potential interest to someone watching an ASMR video. Playing ads at the end of an ASMR video makes about as much sense as rocking a baby to sleep and then screaming into its ear once the baby finally falls asleep. Talk about destroting the whole purpose of an ASMR video.

@NCIA-93 10 месяцев назад

well... my youtube lite is officially over. the full premium is pricy with a ton of useless features so yea.. i already got woken up by a screaming lady from an ad on another asmr video.

@songstress2411 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for all that you're doing, Luuk! What stops me from getting ads is the fact that I have an ASMR playlist. I've found that if I pick a video from my list and loop it, I won't be disturbed by an ad. I'd love to just let my playlist play the variety of vids I have on there, but it's not worth the chance of me being woken up😮‍💨

@didhsjsk 10 месяцев назад

They are making people to subscribe youtube premium 🙄 It's all about money 🤦

@hdimyb9856 10 месяцев назад

RU-vid doesnt need more money. They dont. They have a very steady, large flow of income already. This isnt for the benefit of anyone other than the company's towering money drive. I genuinely can not fathom why theyre doing this

@yGKeKe 10 месяцев назад

They're lying. They're going to play ads before, during and after all videos on the platform. Eventually they will also play ads to people who have premium subscriptions. (Most subscription streaming platforms have already started doing this. Streaming services are essentially just cable TV over the internet at this point.)

@xBINARYGODx 10 месяцев назад

IOW adblock it is, support this cutie pie through alt methods.

@FabiolaaaC 10 месяцев назад

I wish you could have recorded that phone call with RU-vid , thanks for the hard work 👏

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

I wanted to but it was against company policy apparently

@FabiolaaaC 10 месяцев назад

We can't let youtube control creator's contents that much... it will get worse if there isn't much of a deal. Thanks for keeping trying ✌️

@penguinscangame2228 10 месяцев назад

Only reason I have yt premium and so I can Download them aswell

@JB04BE11 10 месяцев назад

I watch a asmr video.. but I get 6/8 adds 😤

@PyeFlera 10 месяцев назад

Still gonna watch your videos, no matter what happens. Thanks for trying, you're the best!

@jm-xh4yz 10 месяцев назад

I now have to crush on Luuk from a distance 😢

@MetamorphoseostouXR 10 месяцев назад

Post-roll ads are not a real problem. Just set a stop-playback timer and that's all.

@ObviouslyASMR 10 месяцев назад

Not all people know the Android app that lets you do this but I'll talk about it later

@xFF7xGIRLx 10 месяцев назад

I know this is a serious video, but i couldn't hold in my laughter at the bottom half of your vid.

@angie6506 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Luuk! You really are someone who does care people’s needs and benefits! I would suggest that if this ads thing still didn’t work out that well maybe you can consider to switch the platform (not sure if Spotify would be better but you can try maybe) if this could be an alternative solution

@TomWhoASMR 10 месяцев назад

This is either going to drive people to use ad blockers more, which is bad for us creators who need ads at the beginning to make money from all our work, or it'll encourage more people to buy YT Premium, which doesn't really pay creators as much as ads do. So either way, it's going to be bad for ASMR creators on this platform unless they change this. It'll be interesting to see if income drops considerably for ASMR creators on this platform.

@asmrpillow457 10 месяцев назад

great work man

@sharzer_0_love_myself 10 месяцев назад

yes I really really need it ,It's really painful to be woken up after falling asleep😭,asmr is a special channel,It is really necessary to distinguish which video is for sleep😭，thank u luuk,ur so considerate!love you😭💕

@sharzer_0_love_myself 10 месяцев назад

I know it's going to be very difficult, but I appreciate all your efforts

@ArianaGramsci 10 месяцев назад

This is a sad day for the ASMR community

@jjtint 10 месяцев назад

Your hair looks good here 👍

@Uyhn26 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for voicing this and giving us the idea of what’s happening. You are amazing and very considerate. Hopefully this issue will not become a trend as time goes on. Either way, your efforts are appreciated, by a lot! ❤