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0 pointszimpenfish8y ago0 comments

> Showing ads primarily against bigger videos

Which does fall down somewhat when the jackass going to a suicide forest is one of the biggest creators (estimated 4th highest paid in 2017) -and- was a Preferred Partner.

> means youtube has a chance to check the content

Sure but they apparently approved his suicide forest video.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16869430/youtube-logan-paul...

"[...] YouTube moderation team had reviewed Paul’s video and deemed it acceptable."

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prepend8y ago

It helps a lot against all the ISIS videos that show ads where Google is getting a lot of heat in Europe.

AstralStorm8y ago

Yes, because figuring out if you are actually sponsoring terrorism is hard. /s

No, the thing is advertisers do not want their brands associated with thing x. YouTube already has automated classifiers for demonetization. This is recognition that these classifiers do not work - from the side of advertisers.

Google could tell them "deal with it" and they'd probably oblige. The manual side was Google Preferred program.

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wafflesraccoon8y ago

Source? I would like to read more about this.

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