Until I started searching You Tube for an interesting video to blog about, I didn't realize how annoying and aggressive the advertising is on a large percentage of the videos. They remind me of those old car lot TV commercials where the salesman was barking at you like a sideshow carnie at the county fair.
After a while I became so annoyed by the “commercials” I was being bombarded with at the beginning of the videos that I refused to watch the videos that had up-front, aggressive ads. Some of the self-promotion was less aggressive, and many appeared at the end of the video. Those are much less objectionable.
Don't you think that a simple statement of who produced the video, and a short description of what you are about to see is more effective than yelling the company advertising slogan at you?
I really enjoy the county fair; Including the barking sideshow carnies. I think we should leave the barking to the pros in the traveling carnivals, and keep it out of social media.
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