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To generate revenue, YouTube channel owners will take sponsorship from various companies in the form of advertisements. These sponsored video ads will remain forever unless they are cut by the channel owners themselves. According to Semafor, YouTube has begun testing where these sponsored video ad segments can be swapped out more easily.

Yesterday, we reported that YouTube could be finding more ways to make you watch more advertisements. We are talking about the missing skip button that was spotted by several users, but YouTube recently denied removing it.

Until today, YouTube is still experimenting with ways to force you to watch advertisements while streaming. We have reported the many various ways before but perhaps this is one of the eye-rolling methods, which is hiding the Skip button.

If you frequently use YouTube, this news might upset you. Recently, YouTube released an update that allows it to play ads alongside paused videos. So, what should you know about it?

Do you like watching YouTube on your smart TV? Well, bad news for you because the company is planning to put longer unskippable ads, even when your video is paused. Well, starting with the Americans first.

If you frequently watch YouTube videos on your desktop computer, then the annoying overlay ads covering a small portion of the video should be familiar to you. Well, even the Google-owned video platform agrees that the overlay ads are intrusive and has announced that it will be removing them beginning next month.

Just when you thought YouTube is done with two unskippable ads for the video platform, it seems that the company is bumping up to five for a foreseeable future. Do note that nothing is final as YouTube just recently started testing five unskippable ads before the video starts playing.

Are you tired of seeing some categories of ads on YouTube? If you are, Google has rolled out a new option for you to disable ads that belong to certain categories, including alcohol, dating, gambling, pregnancy and parenting, and weight loss.

Google is reportedly testing ads on YouTube Shorts as a another way to help creators monetise their videos. For now, the ads on Shorts will include products like App Install and video action campaigns.

Google’s online video sharing and social media platform YouTube is now offering TV streaming service too, but with a twist. Get this, you can stream up to 4000 episodes of TV for free, but you’ll be interrupted with ads the whole time.

Seems like a fair compromise, don’t you think? Also, isn’t this just exactly what a conventional TV channel is anyway, only with an extra step and the convenience of picking what show to watch?