Community Poll: Should I Enable Instream Rollover Ads on My Videos?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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319 words · ~1 min read
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now I have a question for you guys you know these rollover advertisements
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before the video actually starts playing the ones where it plays for about what
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10 15 seconds personally I find them
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incredibly obnoxious and I had vowed to
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never introduce them on my channel however it's come to my attention that
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they do generate significantly more ad Revenue so I'm going to leave it up to
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my viewer base to decide whether I should enable them or not now for
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starters lineus Tech tips videos are not a for-profit Enterprise I have a real
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job this is my office feel free to pan around check out my office I actually
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have some really weird stuff in my office right now including a uh old PC
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uh Mouse cage some Badman
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shoes actually yeah my office is like epic right now I got I got an old
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Supreme Commander poster yeah yeah okay
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so anyway this is not a for-profit Enterprise so the AdSense Revenue
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actually goes towards things like giveaways contests more products to
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unbox more videos that I can produce because I have a bigger budget so what I
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want you guys to do is I want you to either click like or dislike that's
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going to be how I'm going to run this poll and after a couple weeks or however
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long I'll pretty much arbitrarily decide I'm going to look at the video and I'm
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going to go okay if the likes outweigh
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the dislikes then you guys want me to have a bigger budget for Tech tips at
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the cost of having those rollovers if the dislikes outweigh the likes then you
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guys would prefer I do not introduce rollovers and I will respect your wishes
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and I will just have a slightly smaller Tech tips budget so vote up or vote down