YouTube Is Now Showing Ad-Supported Hollywood Movies

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For those who don’t mind ads, YouTube is currently streaming a collection of good (“The Terminator,” “Rocky”) and not-so-good ("Zookeeper,” "Agent Cody Banks") movies for free. It appears the streaming giant is testing the viability of free, ad-supported feature-length films: Rohit Dhawan, director of product management at YouTube, suggests that advertisers may be open to sponsoring individual movies in the future, giving users complimentary views and exclusive screenings.

Eventually, there could be a way for advertisers to pay to sponsor individual movies, giving users complimentary views and exclusive screenings, Dhawan says. However, that all pretty much depends on how studios evolve their businesses to account for these new digital streaming windows that are opening up. Movies typically go to theaters, then DVD, then TV, and the place for digital is still up in the air.
 
TangledThornz said:
I watched the free movies on Vudu and the ads can be quite jarring as they are very sudden and not between scenes like they should be.
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Considering how jarring the ads are in current YT videos, I assume they’re the same.

Speaking of which, I really need to add some more YT block lists to my pihole
 
Giving it a try at the moment with Worlds Fastest Indian. So far no ads played but I am a Red member
 
alamox said:
i stopped watching TV because of ads, so i can't imagine how many annoying ads will pop in mid of the movie, not for me, and frankly this is backward, ppl like streaming for the lack of advertising, so going and puting it back won't work imo.
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The difference is I pay for cable and still get ads..so I have to pay extra for DVR service so I can skip the adds, ala paying for add-free online services. If I was watching free over-the-air TV, or in this case free YouTube, then I wouldn't mind watching adds if it got me "good" content for free.
 
I watched Terminator and Hackers last night. Had Ad Block on so didn't see any ads and the image quality was pretty decent.
 
Nothing like testing viability with old, stale movies and franchises.

It’s cool. They can cancel the service, say they tried. and blame pirates for totally absconding payment.
 
Vudu has been doing this for at least a year and keep adding more movies, so I am going to say that this must be a viable solution.
 
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