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YouTube advertising

Youtube's new policy to stream the same advertisement three times back to back is really irritating. I personally will not buy anything that is presented me in this way, even if I like what is being sold. It's THAT annoying. It is a very poor advertising strategy. I'm far more likely to stay tuned to three different ads if I have to watch them. Just saying. I'm not sure how many people feel this way, but I can't imagine most people find it pleasing.

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Jan 15, 2019 10:23 am EST

This is a suggestion. I personally think Youtube advertising is on the wrong track. I see ads all the time that I don't care about. I will rarely click on any of them. Why not tailor ads to individuals watching? If I knew what companies were advertising, and could choose to look at them, there'd be a more successful pairing with consumer and advertiser. Why not give viewers a choice of ads to see? Maybe build an ad choice directory? I want to see company profiles. I want to buy from companies whose products and practices I can believe in. Why not make watching ads meaningful? Give me a choice and information about companies advertising and I I actually might buy something. Let consumers have power in deciding what ads they want to see and we might build a world that reflects who we are collectively just a little bit better.

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YouTube dupixent tv commercial

The Dupixant commercial is disgusting and irritating to watch. I can't grab my tv remote quick enough to change. Friends, coworkers and others on the media agree that it makes their skin crawl and are in disgust watching the dupixant commercial! How can this commercial be brought down or changed from crawling bugs on hands and spikey looking grass growing out of someone's clothes? It's very difficult to watch and or listen to, when you know what the image is.

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YouTube youtube ad

I have just watched an advert on YouTube promoting Jihad.

Clarion project was the website I was directed to by the advert.

Promoting a terrorist organisation is illegal.

Please remove this ad from your platform.

This avert features a self proclaimed convicted terrorist and simply promotes jihad. It does not foster dialogue and I believe it promotes a radicalised narrative.

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7:41 am EST

YouTube violent videos

The bloody videos about UFC or MMA fights are not only disgusting to watch but dangerous as well for some violent prone minds.
If youtube does not care about the health of our children minds. and our society at large, nthen maybe it should be careful of litigation which could result from a violent act perpretated by someone after watching such barbaric videos.At a veveryy minimum, an age restrictions should be in place.
Shame on you Youtube.You should be avoided at all costs.

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5:15 pm EST

YouTube kids video

Hello, my name is Patrick Keller.

My children are watching YouTube kids videos on the Apple TV. All educational. Some ABC, some math, some on the solar system, etc. Great videos. All kid like. However, the ads that show are for adults. Ads with whiskey, adult dating, adult travel.

Can you please show ads that are kid friendly. Please show ads that are related to children. Thank you so much.

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12:21 pm EST

YouTube ads and commercials

I have been a YouTube subscriber for years, however, in the last year or so I have grown to hate YouTube. Watching the videos grow even more distasteful because of the constant disruptions of content through the intrusion of you monetization program. These constant interruptions really take away from the message of the videos and even may turn the watcher off totally. It is my hope that you may soon adjust the number of ads or commercials that can be inserted into for the enjoyment of the watcher and for the benefit of the channel owner. Thank you.

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12:08 pm EST

YouTube unethical behaviour

Please, Please, Please Take Down LoveHaswon.
They are at:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GalacticCentral/videos

They were taken down once for copyright infringement, but they are nothing
but a cult group that has been scamming innocent and lost people for years on youtube with live screen begging (and receiving) donations to support their narcissistic leader Mother of All Creation (Gaia, Prime Creator, God).

Her real name is Amy Reid from Texas.

They are duping viewers into pledging and sending donations to support this God figure and her followers. The followers are currently Live Feeding from Crestone, Colorado and Mother God is in Florida after visiting Disney World. All funded by daily begging on youtube.

I know first hand, because my daughter was tricked by their teachings into leaving Virginia Tech with a 3.8 GPA. She is just one of 100's of people scammed by these youtube operators.

Hopefully this e-mail will help to make a difference,
Regards,
Timothy Hoffman

[protected]@live.com

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10:37 am EST

YouTube on-screen advertisements while watching youtube content

Hey, I do NOT mind an occasional add while watching my nightly dosage of news, they're informative, amusing and sometimes even funny, but having a BARRAGE of THE SAME ADD, every 4-5 minutes, having sometimes UP TO FIFTY REPETITIONS of the SAME add, it gets REAL annoying?!?!?!?! And the WORST PART, is the fact YouTube does NOT include a "block add" option for THESE SPECIFIC ADDS, like they offer for the majority of the adds they stream... I did NOT opt for the adds-free, premium service, because I do NOT mind a FEW adds every now and then, but this BARRAGE is OBSCENE! >8(

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Mae010
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Dec 26, 2018 3:39 pm EST

I am having the same problems, before there would be an ad at the start of the video and occasionally at the end, which I did not mind and understood. However, now I am having 2-3 minute adds every 5 to 10 minutes is starting to be really irritating, I am unable to enjoy the video as it is interrupted by ads. This has to be fixed it is not fun to watch videos anymore and I am really patient but it's starting to thin out. Please fix this because I want to enjoy Youtube as I used to do.

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8:55 pm EST

YouTube youtube channel search option

The option on an accounts page to search their channel no longer works. The search icon is still there next to the "About" tab, but is unusable. Every time I click on the search option and type in something to search the result comes up as an empty page, without as much as even saying empty, it's all just blank. This happened when you all recently changed your format, so your system must be broken.

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2:10 am EST

YouTube apple product giveaway

I subscribe to a tech youtube channel iJustine...
A month ago Justine made a video on unboxing all the colours of the iPhone XR
and during the video announce there will be a giveaway of all the phones.

The condition of the giveaway was to like /subscribe and make a comment on her video and do the same on her friends channel Jonathan (his link was down below).

I did all that and also asked the question is the giveaway only for those in the US and Canada... no response...

Then nothing the give away was all but forgotten... many of her subscribers have been asking what is happening with the giveaway and nil response

This give away appears to be a scam to boost the subscribers of her friend Jonathan..

This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable... treating her subscribers like puppets.
not responding comments...

Rgds
Alexandra

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Dec 12, 2018 2:12 am EST

Apple product giveaway a scam by iJustine

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6:11 pm EST

YouTube video removals?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbOld91VxE

YouTube is, apparently, removing Mumkey Jones' videos for some bizzare strile reason.

I think it goes without saying that your Strike system is broken and allows this sort of nonsensical brigading to cause quality content Like Mumkey's to be terminated.

However, I'd like to be clear on something else.

If Mumkey goes, I have no intention of using Youtube. He's basically the last creator I seriously watch.

Netflix provides videos. Spotify provides music. What do I need YouTube for? Watching Jake and Logan Paul filming dead bodies? Fortnite memees?

Mumkey is the last good thing on this site, and pulling his content will be my proverbial "Third strike" before I abandon YouTube entirely and move on more thoroughly to Netflix and Spotify.

The choice is yours.

PermaBan one of your last creators worth watching and loose viewers, or be reasonable and don't let brigading [censored] control your site.

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6:40 am EST

YouTube youtube site

As of the 5th of December 2018 at around 11pm, the Youtube website when opened in google chrome, has dramatically reduced in size. The site still works normally but the text on screen and all thumbnails are tiny and abnormally small. All other websites that I visit using chrome are working perfectly except your. Could you please deal with this matter promptly.

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7:47 am EST

YouTube unauthorized music distributed

I was notified that Youtube has old "copyrighted" music distributed that was not authorized by myself and I need to have it removed. All associated songs/ images should be removed. Here is a link of a url location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZA1tKlLE00
Please remove all of the unauthorized content as it is not a good look for my business.
Thank you.

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12:47 am EST

YouTube complaint against youtube

I couldn't believe my eyes when watching a music video that 3 times during that song, a add interrupted the video. That is so annoying! No! No! No! I am paying to be on YouTube. I don't get it for free. Internet is not fot free. So don't you think I have the choice as a paid customer to stand up against this?

Please remove this annoying adds during the music videos.

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2:18 pm EST

YouTube ken dodd big fat freemason funeral

this is a dread full disrecectful content reflecting the funeral and the carocttor of ken dodd should be removed its making acuations that have not been proven and are distate full in every way the page enchanted lifepath refers to ken dodd being a pervert a member of kult everything is against the carocter of the person why was this not mentioned when he was alive now hes dead he cant defend himself take this page down all untrue

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10:51 pm EST

YouTube selective censorship

When I use the word "you", I am referring to the collective of YouTube...collectivist indeed.
Your demonetization of all MGTOW channels is recently is despicable and the last straw for me...more and more people are about fed up with your obvious biases and [censored] excuses every day. Tolerant left my [censored], you tolerate nothing and embrace decadence and everything broken. It's ok to have channels promoting kill men, make men your slaves, masculinity is toxic, men are worthless, all men are rapists, men live just to oppress women, blah blah blah, but not the opposite? I believe all ideas should have a voice so that people can decide for themselves. Your and your tech company conspirator's fear of an open discussion is indicative of your insecurity and pathetic nature. You abuse power because you can, and you are so arrogant that you can't understand that at some point...people know they are going to get beat no matter what they do, so they stop caring...and when people stop caring, bad things start happening because they feel they have nothing to lose. You and your ilk are ignorant fools and I hope that YouTube and all your tech-cronies realize that you are only creating your own competitors. Sad you chose this route instead of embracing liberty and letting the marketplace of ideas choose the winner while you still got paid for ads. Instead, apparently you want to lose even more money than you already are. All in all, [censored] off.

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12:49 am EST

YouTube website censorship

I fear if YT keeps censoring content based on political opinion there are 2 outcomes: 1) an alternative platform arises (Gab is back and Twitter should be worried) or 2) I forsee angry unhinged folks locating youtube officers and engaging them as high risk threats to American democracy. My guess is these officers will no longer enjoy any freedom of movement or any level of security after 1 or 2 incidents. This is not an unreasonable threat assessment. Youtube had a shooting incident once before. I could see targeted high value individuals selected for maximum effect. In 5 mins. the names of the top 20 youtube officers can be identified. The rest is obvious. It may sound crazy now, but Americans are not Chinese. Americans have limits and w/o a checks and balances or alternative to systematic speech oppersion, violence is not at all out of the realm of forseeable reactions. I hope this does not happen but w/o change, I fear it is unavoidable. I am sure YT officers are situationalky unaware to this threat. Hopefully, courts force change but if they do not, citizens will and certain citizens will probably see themselves as speech martyrs.

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Nov 08, 2018 12:53 am EST

Key Executives For YouTube, LLC
Ms. Susan D. Wojcicki
Chief Executive Officer
Age: 49
Ms. Julie Supan
Senior Director of Marketing
Robert Kyncl
Head of Content & Business Operations
Mr. Pawan Agarwal
Head of Music Partnership for India and South Asia Region
Mr. Neal Mohan
Chief Product Officer

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Gerhard Erasmus
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Nov 21, 2018 1:11 pm EST

I'm an average person with zero hate but a whole lot of angst. I have been censored by youtube and on asking, they didn't give me a reason why. I've come to realize that there are millions, if not billions of conservatives whose opinions and view points are being systematically censored. I'd ove to find a videos and search channel - engine with ONLY conservative view points. The main reason why I experience angst is due to violent people being forced upon our families through forced migration. We are a sophisticated society and not up to such violence. We are peaceful and peace loving people. Please leave our countries the way they are, our forebears have shed a lot of blood to reach the safety we have (in some european countries have had). We don't need any aggressors and can certainly not afford to have all migrants in our countries. The globalists invested in China and other mono-culture countries and use migrantion and human rights merely as tools to weaken our economies, so they can cash in on the stronger Chinese currencies... How come China is not forced to take up migrants? It is not fair. Stop censorship it is like stealing our voices of concern - it is inhuman! If it goes on like that, there will be war yet again. Many a man will seek their revenge and without free speeach you are oppressing - it is indeed called facism at the highest degree!

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rivelle
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Nov 10, 2018 10:19 pm EST

Alt fact trumpite mental and moral degenerates are skinhead scum of the earth
Gab is a hate channel that's already dead who gives a [censored] if skinheads [censored] off there?
Your concept of "freedom" is nihilistic violence
Mailed any pipe bombs to Soros lately you schiziod paranoiac [censored]head?

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YouTube regarding to removing dr. jungmin kim youtube channel in korea

The channel I've been watching from Korea that has been removed without any notice.
Lots of viewers have been shocked by this incidents and have been trying to search these channels but couldn't. His name is Dr. Jungmin Kim who is a well known professor who has been teaching Asian history as well as international relations.
He has been educating history of Asia, international relations and political issues of Korea and became very popular recently through Youtube.
At this moment, Korean government is clamping down lots of Youtube channels that is against current Korean political issues.
Youtube channel has to be neutral not leaning to any party.
I strongly suggest to bring back those channels back again.

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YouTube youtube app

Can you please... please... please! Move the cast to TV button to some where other than the top right of the video screen. Im forever bloody hitting that button by accident and it annoys the hell out of me and my parents who i end up casting to. Maybe one of the bottom corners ? Many thanks. Apparently if im below 350 characters it won't attract anyone's attention... so yeah... could you move the casting button please.

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YouTube false & misleading youtube video

To whom it may concern:

I wish to lodge a complaint. We came across the attached video today, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkFFus5Ox2E, which purports to offer a $50 coupon off of the price of my company's products. We have no such coupon program and have not authorized any of third party to offer such a coupon on our behalf.

Accordingly, we demand that you immediately pull this video from YouTube. It is false and misleading as well prone to create consumer confusion and, in turn, tarnish my company's good will.

Thank you.

Scott Familant, Esq.
VP, Special Projects
New Sensor Corp. (d/b/a Electro-Harmonix (EHX))
55-01 2nd Street
LIC, NY 11101
[protected] ext. 938
[protected]@ehx.com

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Oct 29, 2018 11:24 am EDT

To whom it may concern:

I wish to lodge a complaint. We came across the attached video today, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkFFus5Ox2E, which purports to offer a $50 coupon off of the price of my company's products. We have no such coupon program and have not authorized any of third party to offer such a coupon on our behalf.

Accordingly, we demand that you immediately pull this video from YouTube. It is false and misleading as well prone to create consumer confusion and, in turn, tarnish my company's good will.

Thank you.

Scott Familant, Esq.
VP, Special Projects
New Sensor Corp. (d/b/a Electro-Harmonix (EHX))
55-01 2nd Street
LIC, NY 11101
[protected] ext. 938
scott@ehx.com

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