I'm much less concerned about being sold in 15-30 secs as much as the "ads" that are paid promotional programming that runs >30 minutes in the middle of a video that is <30 minutes.

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matthewfcarlson 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing makes me quite as irrationally angry as a 30 second ad on a one minute video

	▲	dylan604 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know why you feel it is irrational at all. That a perfectly rational reason to be angry about the state of ad injection

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catapart 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That stuff is so bizarre! I can understand how an advertiser might try to sneak an infomercial onto an ad campaign, and I can understand how it might be attempted on accident. But I can't understand why an ostensible ad platform would ever allow you to upload a 30 min. ad without lots of flags going up and needing some approval.

	▲	dylan604 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> and needing some approval. and here shows just how bad the rot is. I would assume that buying that much "air time" to have your longer content played would come a quite a premium. I would also not be surprised if selling those premiums come with a bonus. There's a reason those paid-programming shows run with no commercials. The cost of airing it paid for all of the ad pods during that block of air time, plus extra for being special snowflake. If these long content "ads" are flukes, then that also shows the rot of the ad market that this isn't handled as an exception.