As in, would the channel be losing out on money? Because I don’t want to take away from small creators if there is a retention rate for viewership of that exact segment, but I would prefer to skip any of the “but first check out this shitty mobile game”.

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    11 months ago

    They’re referring to “Let me stop talking about the topic of this video to tell you about Shadow Shark, thr VPN Game” type sponsorships. Is YouTube planning on disabling the scrub bar now or what?

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      11 months ago

      Theoretically no, they want people to ignore those built-in sponsorships, so the advertisers go straight to Google’s ad service