[ramman2999]

What the fuck? Why?

Why is ESPN doing that?

So looks like we are literally looking at everything streaming.

I don’t know about you but this seems like we are paying for a bunch of streaming services.

How do you afford it? I pay Hulu already and they have if you want all live TV you have to buy Hulu plus then Netflix and now YouTube I already pay Amazon prime. That shit adds up with Mortage. I don’t know about y’all but maybe y’all are some big ballers in here.

[St. Loser Fan]

Looks like the YTTV issues happened again with Thursday night's Lakers/Nuggets game: but not as bad.

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/19/youtu ... a-playoff/

Luckily, YouTube TV is aware of the issue, and has confirmed a fix for “freezing” ads. In a comment on Reddit, a confirmed YouTube TV engineer said that a fix is being implemented for the ads buffering/freezing issue. When the problem first came up, YouTube explained the problem as “elevated rebuffing rates.”

Hopefully, whatever fix YouTube has in store will be implemented quickly and, more importantly, actually work. Tests like these are just the beginning as YouTube TV’s subscriber numbers continue to grow, and as NFL Sunday Ticket games near.

Right now they're saying its just a software glitch.

[Elvis]

What the fuck? Why?

Why is ESPN doing that?

So looks like we are literally looking at everything streaming.

I don’t know about you but this seems like we are paying for a bunch of streaming services.

How do you afford it? I pay Hulu already and they have if you want all live TV you have to buy Hulu plus then Netflix and now YouTube I already pay Amazon prime. That shit adds up with Mortage. I don’t know about y’all but maybe y’all are some big ballers in here.

ESPN will offer direct streaming in addition to being on cable. As long as they can make money from cable they will.

But people are cutting the cord and streaming. They need to be ready and available.

Cable is more profitable than streaming but people are leaving cable. Nobody knows exactly how to play it...

[Elvis]

https://www.thestreet.com/media/youtube ... yptr=yahoo

YouTube Is About to Make a Big Change Viewers Are Going to Absolutely Despise
But advertisers are going to love it.

TONY OWUSU

The last thing YouTube viewers want is more unskippable advertisements, but that's exactly what viewers are going to see going forward.

At its Brandcast event for advertisers, YouTube announced that it is bringing 30-second unskippable ads to connected TVs. Advertisers who want that captive audience will have to sign up for YouTube Select, the targeting option for advertisers who want to reach viewers of the service's most popular programs.

YouTube, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet (GOOGL) - Get Free Report, says that about 70% of YouTube Select impressions go to televisions. Signing up will allow "for richer storytelling," from advertisers, YouTube said at the event, according to Engadget.

YouTube had phased out 30-second unskippable ad slots on YouTube Select back in 2018, but now the platform under new CEO Neal Mohan is bringing the option back for advertisers.

“We’re making it easier for advertisers who normally use linear television to advertise on YouTube,” Sean Downey, president of sales at Google and YouTube, told Adweek.

In another gift to advertisers, YouTube is introducing ads that begin when users pause videos.

YouTube is offering advertisers a sweeter deal at a time when many economists have an 'if not when' attitude towards the chances of a recession this year. If that happens, advertising revenue could take a hit as businesses trim budgets.

Digital video advertising spending is expected to grow 17% year over year to $55.2 billion in 2023, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. But that 17% increase is slower than the 21% increase the previous year.

[ramman2999]

Yeah it’s all software. We forget this is all tech.

Basically we are all watching this on a computer slice it up however you want.

We watch TV that’s a television satellite direct TV right on your roof not computer.

That’s my thing with streaming. You are going to have these issues.


The Advertisement like what’s the point. The streaming is supposed to eliminate commercials. But when I watch Hulu my Hulu shows I can’t get out of any commercials. And they are long. Like 2 minute commercials.

[azramsfan93]

It is all digital data communications, regardless of the carrier. I find it helpful to remind people occasionally:

When you call your family member you are not hearing them, you are hearing a voice synthesized from data packets created when they spoke into their pocket computer microphone. Phone calls have not been actually wired connections transmitting electrical impulses driven by the sound your voice for decades (with exceptions I am sure).

It's kinda like the a Star Trek transporter - other than the horrific reality that decomposing of a living being's body into digital packets would be actual murder....

Yeah it’s all software. We forget this is all tech.

Basically we are all watching this on a computer slice it up however you want.

We watch TV that’s a television satellite direct TV right on your roof not computer.

That’s my thing with streaming. You are going to have these issues.


The Advertisement like what’s the point. The streaming is supposed to eliminate commercials. But when I watch Hulu my Hulu shows I can’t get out of any commercials. And they are long. Like 2 minute commercials.

[Elvis]

[renzocapone]

Where does the income come from then...?

[St. Loser Fan]

[actionjack]

Breaking...Directv will provide NFL Sunday Ticket to bars and restaurants. A deal has been struck between Directv and Everpass