YouTube will show fewer ads in ‘interruptive’ slots

YouTubers who prefer setting ad slots manually may risk losing revenue soon

YouTubers who prefer setting ad slots manually may risk losing revenue soon

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Starting May 12th, YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions, according to a help page on the change. The company says it’s also inserting “additional, automatic ad-slots at natural break points” into older videos with manually-placed slots, a change creators can

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