Like when the creator does their spiel for whatever sponsor.
Sometimes the creators do funny ways to introduce their sponsors, I really like that. For example donut, even if it’s a fun skit they even place a progress bar on the bottom. It’s the main reason I set sponsorblock to “notify, but don’t skip the segment”
Other times instead it’s the whole video to be secretly sponsored, like many unboxing channels. In that case sponsorblock should warn “error: no content found”
How do you feel about creators plugging their own product…for example, when Mark Rober (YouTube celebrity, engineer) plugs Crunchlabs (his subscription/box service for STEM kits for kids)?
Or when people plug their Patreons?
Ironic that this is posted by “barqs has bite” lol. But yes I have wondered the same thing. I also wonder how much a certain sponsor influence the video topic. Like if you’re sponsored by Nord VPN, are you more likely to do a video on Internet privacy or security?
I posit that people who really know about internet privacy and security are the least likely to let themselves be sponsored by Nord VPN.
Sponsorblock has an interesting stats here: https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/
They have over 15 millions segments blocked. Not sure how many of them are ads and what’s the total lengths of those ads relative to the actual video though.
That’s what sponsor block is for.
