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[@JonathanWhoever]

Honestly no ad on KZbin has ever influenced my spending.

[@billpoganski]

Actually, they do. The ads tell me what NOT to buy or support!

[@MustObeyTheRules]

They do influence me, they make me go out of my way not to buy their trash.

[@fran6b]

Don't worry guys, ads work.

[@williamthomas2278]

I started paying attention as to what NOT to buy a long time ago then just stopped paying attention altogether

[@jennw6809]

I started seeing ads for my car brand AFTER I bought a new car. YT is really good at that

[@just1mansopinion]

The fact that you put the importance of content over currency is exactly why you have 1.6 million subs Rick. Hold your values bro, it's appreciated!

[@PBRStreetgang]

^this is the truth. I pay $12 per month for YT premium and it's totally worth it to not have my browser crash. Seriously, YT is as far as I go with social media, and I'd pay $12 a month just for Rick's videos alone.

[@Tylervrooman]

100%

[@josuastangl7140]

@@YeeLeeHaw thing is you can't get no ads for free, at least not on your phone. It's sad, but kinda worth it.

[@joeb3590]

Indeed, I fully concur with that statement.

[@losiak]

@@josuastangl7140 Have you tried Brave Browser ???

[@premierguitar]

We’re not immune to it either, Rick, keep fighting the good fight! 🙏🤘👍

[@Nabeelco]

Ad Block and uBlock users: KZbin has ads?

[@2Worlds_and_InBetween]

yeah... who knew

[@clayz1]

KZbin premium has no ads. Restores the watching experience.

[@Abuelo9]

No more now.

[@gazzie12000]

Yep, I didn't know youtube has ads - I use Ad Blocker. I don't know why anyone puts up with ads online. They are so simple to stop.

[@hamsterbrigade]

@John P I believe ad block kills conversions, which means the people without Adblock are probably getting destroyed with more ads to make up for KZbin's lost ad revenue. My question to you, is how do you expect KZbin to pay for the storage and management of 70k hours of new content that is generated per hour? I can guarantee you the business options are much worse than showing you an Ad. This feels like a case of two wrongs don't make a right, yeah these companies aren't innocent, but getting value from a service and then blocking their means of providing that service doesn't feel right either.

[@prometheustv6558]

I especially hate the ads telling you not to learn guitar on KZbin, while I'm learning guitar on KZbin.

[@Krauser1226]

*me literally learning new chord shapes from a KZbin video* "HEY YOU CANT LEARN GUITAR ON KZbin"

[@Camaink1]

Jajaja

[@VisboerAnton]

I taught myself layla by watching a yt concert lol

[@johnvcougar]

Or the ones saying "You CAN'T learn guitar on KZbin" FFS. Made by morons for morons.

[@johnvcougar]

@@Krauser1226 These morons will never get a view let alone a cent from me.

[@JimMooreVirginia]

It is rediculous that over 100 years of copyright tradition, the allowance for short excerpts to be used freely for educational purposes, has been superseded by this platform. As an educator, you should received full compensation for the incredible value that you provide.

[@StratMatt777]

I don't see any ads anywhere on KZbin. Download FOR FREE Mozilla Firefox browser and get their free add-ons: Ad Block Plus, Privacy Badger and Facebook Container. Problem solved!

[@woofie8647]

Seems to me it's free advertising already! How many people hear a song or see a video and go out to buy it?

[@9timesacharm]

Is it really KZbins fault though? I mean laws like article 13 in the EU makes it really hard for KZbin.

[@J.Burrough]

Yes, Very well said J Moore. I agree 100%, we can see the problems, wish there was something we could do.✌🏼

[@LRM12o8]

When a big tech company, that has a monopoly position employs algorithms or "AI" to solve highly complex problems, what you get is a company overruling laws. Doesn't matter what constitutes "fair use" or "educational use", that needs no permission, Google's ContentID *IS* the law now. And I fear that's gonna be the case for many other things in the future as well. You're allowed to do X, but if you do, company Z, who you are somehow dependent on, will hit you with sanctions that you can't afford so you refrain from it, despite having the right to it on paper.

[@mikes6301]

I’ve made up my mind that if I see an annoying add, I refuse to ever buy their product. If we all did this, this crap would stop.

[@NoName-to5xl]

Same. I grow hateful of those brands. It comes naturally.....

[@justko2909]

Fr

[@milaanpatel4997]

Yup exactly. I have never buy the product from those damn adds

[@NeilHolmes72]

"At the expense of making these videos look terrible." if the labels gave a damn about esthetics music wouldn't suck as badly as it does right now. The only real talent a record label exec needs is the ability to separate money from the person who really earns it.

[@Jamsville]

I long for the day that there’s a major court case resolving these issues with abusing the copyright claim system, blocking videos, and just harassing youtubers engaging in fair use content creation.

[@micheleparker8123]

...don't hold your breath...

[@Jamsville]

@@micheleparker8123 Oh, I'm definitely not. One can dream though.

[@toms_cigarzs]

This is a company (youtube/google) service, so they can moderate it, and do anything they like. There are no laws being broken. It still sucks. All the more to make youtube unwatchable.

[@bami2]

@@toms_cigarzs Legally, using copyrighted content for educational use (which these "what makes this song great" certainly are) is exempt under fair use and these music labels have no right to plaster it with ads and claim the revenue. But you're completely right that no actual laws are being broken, it's the deal youtube made with the major labels when they got sued into oblivion by the likes of viacom. At this point, I just pihole all the ads into oblivion and directly support the content creators i like outside youtube, since most of their stuff gets demonetized anyways and it all goes to people who have no legal right to all the ad money, but take it anyways.

[@CorbCorbin]

bami2 Lawyers also don’t yet know a way to fight it that doesn’t simply eat up one’s money. I’ve listened to creators who had the money, and they usually say that it just turns into a mess, because the big corporations don’t care about one at a time. I think creators would have to come together with a big class action suit to get repaid any losses and maybe even defamation, as it basically claims the channel is stealing when they aren’t. I wish all the musicians could find a way to make a new platform, but most who make a living off KZbin aren’t going to do that.

[@bbellefson]

People respond to more advertising like they respond to more mosquitoes.

[@nettlecider]

Preach! .D

[@janiwirman]

Both of them are really annoying, If mosquitoes disappeared that would actually be bad for the environment and economy though. Haha

[@Ibakecookiess]

@@janiwirman I mean, if ads _disappeared_, it would also be bad. They just to be reduced to like 5% of their current intrusiveness and frequency.

[@davidnika446]

The evil part: Somebody gets a penny every time somebody slaps himself. And somebody gets a dollar when somebody coats herself with toxic chemicals.

[@traianima]

As in they close the window Da Bum Tsss

[@Durethia]

Let me give a history lesson on paying KZbin 12 dollars a month. Rick you're old enough to remember this. "Cable Television" used to be called, "Paid Television". In fact, the absence of ads were an explicit and primary selling point for Cable Television; that and to a lesser degree, a lack of censorship. In addition to the most commonly used form of television (basic rabbit ears and some aluminum foil from Radio Shack), there was also Satellite Television which at the time, every other house in the Deep South and Mid-West had a 15-20 foot dish along side their house; and everyone knew of switching their chips to get free reception; the industry made so much money on maintenance and selling hardware like the dishes and receivers, they were economically forced to accept the rampant and open piracy. None the less, at some point, Cable Television became the norm. Few people ever used the standard airwaves for television. And at that point, Cable Television became a target for advertisers. And who benefits? The Cable Companies of course, not only are they charging for the service, but they are being paid twice by the Advertisers; this is why I refuse to buy cable, and the fact Cable is infested with commercials. There were regulations on where commercials could be placed and time intervals as well. The regulations were so well established, programs, scripts and skits were engineered around these commercial blocks. Watch an old sitcom from the 1980s on KZbin, you'll often have black out spots, and the conversation and flow of the program doesn't feel as interrupted by the commercials that would be placed in these built in commercial break spots. With Cable Television, these regulations don't apply as they only applied to broadcast transmissions; the FTC has yet to catch up. This is why, you can witness four or even five commercials back to back on Cable Televisions; on channels that aren't part of basic packages. This is also why, you can get inundated with commercials, back to back, on KZbin as well. You can NOT script a dialog with any anticipated commercial block allocation. So every advertisement on Cable Television or KZbin, will feel as if it interrupts the flow of the content. Anyways... that's it. Complain to the FTC. And KZbin, when it has enough subscribers, just like the Cable Companies, will start airing ads when it's services are "normalized".

[@SilentKnightProductions]

Don't forget the recent advent of lower-thirds ads over the top of the running program. Not just for "what's next" but for cars or commercial products.

[@perret318]

You know, until you said "I'm not Martin Scorsese", I never realized. Rick, you actually really do look like Martin Scorsese!

[@SeekerGoOn2013]

Better!

[@gregorymccasland2874]

I did notice that...he is a younger, cooler Marty.

[@burgermind802]

I don't know why anyone would tolerate this. block the ads with adblocker or something. I almost forgot KZbin had ads, as I never see them.

[@jcx5659]

I've had an ad blocker for years. But recently on YT, almost every video comes up with a SKIP AD button. This is new. It just sits until I do something. Not the worst thing, but still annoying.

[@johndavis1217]

@@jcx5659 I have noticed the same thing. just recently.

[@gumbilicious1]

I use Adblock on computers, but I watch more on my iPad using safari.

[@largepoodle6036]

@@jcx5659 yeah, i think that all they need to collect the payment is for you to click the skip ad button, even if theres no ad there because of an adblocker. Ive noticed it too

[@marcolucchin9391]

KZbin has intentionally ramped up the ads, particularly the ones in the middle of videos, for one reason. They are pushing Premium. They’ve even out right said it in their own ad campaigns. “Don’t want ads to disrupt your viewing experience? Upgrade to premium today!” They are intentionally disrupting the flow of videos in order to essentially annoy people into upgrading.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

^^^^THIS!!!!

[@davidtankersley7072]

Premium is completely unnecessary with ublock origin.

[@metalslugfest]

This is true, but I gotta say I've been on Premium for the last couple years and love it. I mainly watch KZbin videos as it is, and don't have cable so big win win for me. It's even better than cable, as even cable as advertisements, but not KZbin Premium. Plus it gives me access to KZbin music app on my phone, too, letting you stream audio only instead of video. I can find a playlists of an artist, video game soundtrack, or even a podcast to listen to without having to have the phone screen open and lit up. Totally worth it to me. Also, you can share on Premium subscription with up to 5 or 6 friends/emails, so have your best friends all chip in together for even less of a dent in your wallet. Imagine, you'll never be annoyed by ads again! I'm going to enjoy it while it's even an option, cuz you know one day they're gonna make Premium have ads, but then offer Super Premium at a higher price to enjoy zero ads.

[@michaelb1761]

THAT makes sense

[@tochamp5441]

You hit the nail right on the head!

[@i_kill_for_zardoz]

KZbin without ad blockers is entirely unwatchable. I can't believe anyone still watches KZbin without them.

[@atlantaguitar9689]

Yea. True.

[@cotch40]

If nobody watched ads, then I doubt creators would post videos -- they'd just move to another platform to make $. I hate ads, but I usually just let them play if it's info I enjoy/find valuable/interesting/entertaining. Least I can do, really...

[@i_kill_for_zardoz]

@@cotch40 I think there are better ways to support creators who really offer extra value - like super-chats, Pateron etc. A single 5 dollar superchat will make up for the ad income of hundreds of videos that I watch of a single creator.

[@cotch40]

@@i_kill_for_zardoz I completely agree with you -- I should have clarified .. I truly have nothing to spare. But if I could, I think $5 superchats are the way to go. Just, if you have no money ... best thing you can do for creators is watch the ads. I'm not a youtuber, but I know the work and hours they put in are insane. It's good to know there are different ways we can support these guys.

[@calliph]

@Anonymous 2020 youtube vanced is an ad free youtube for andriod. it's a must.

[@gabrielmichon8682]

advertising is by far the most harmful way of communicating that humans have invented. Just use adblock and tip the youtubers you like

[@Quicksilver_Cookie]

KZbin now reminds me why I stopped watching TV about 15 years ago. It's becoming exactly that - watching ads, with a little bit of actual content in-between.

[@stephen0793]

get adblock

[@bassmaiasa1312]

But at least with TV, the shows were produced to have a commercial break at the end of a scene, not in the middle of a scene. The same with sports -- the commercials didn't come right in the mddle of a play.

[@metalslugfest]

@@bassmaiasa1312 But paying for cable is still like paying to see their commercials. The value has changed to selling the no ad experience on YT, which is kind of a god-send in today's world. Maybe it's not for everyone, but mainly watch YT more than any other media these days and haven't regretted Premium at all yet.

[@TomJLewis1]

I still like TV , but PVR everything and fast forward thru ads, especially sports. Just gotta watch the game a little later is all -

[@metalslugfest]

@@TomJLewis1 Cool. I'm not as much into sports, but I could totally see NFL, NBA, etc. starting to offer no ad streams options to view matches/events. I imagine one day in the not too distant future you could essentially pay access the live feed of cameras from multiple camera angles at the touch of of button. Even, a panoramic VR experience on the sidelines, or any seat in the house (both in your home and at the venue). That same tech can be applied to any gathering, like concerts and plays, too. Essentially, would pay-per-view-minus-ads be worth it to a viewer? That's sounds pretty good to me, if reasonably priced, of course. I bet the Superbowl would feel wayyy different to view ad-free, though, haha.

[@SONORSQ2guy]

I've made a list of rude ads and will never buy their products!

[@binfordtools]

Yep, same! I purposely buy nothing from any KZbin ads.

[@ballsrgrossnugly]

@@binfordtools The few times I have had to see a youtube ad, like watching something on my phone, or my friend who refuses to get ad blockers for some reason... anyway... when I do, not once have I ever seen an ad for something I would actually buy anyway! It's all beauty products and bullshit!

[@vufberlick3697]

Greg Patterson Lol, so I’m not the only one🤣🤣🤣

[@steveincollins]

This is why I'll never get Geico. They spend so much money on so many ads and I find it obnoxious

[@mikecooper2093]

If I see a KZbin ad that makes me want to buy a product, I ensure I buy it from a rival company to the one that is ruining my viewing pleasure. I will never buy from rude ads.

[@sergiow5926]

ad block is your friend, there are other ways to support Rick ( get his book for example )

[@MetallicaRocksss]

Yeah, but he said every view counts, so wouldn't that mean that using adblocker doesn't affect his ad revenue?

[@richardpictures]

The thing that kills me is that Rick makes nothing from these videos. Meanwhile, they are plastering these videos with ads making good money off of HIS labour, juicing it for all they can get. It’s disgusting. It’s a predatory way to get free labour out of creators. Without these creators KZbin would be nothing - yet here they are paying them as little as they possibly can and benefitting from it.

[@davecarsley8773]

I pay for KZbin Premium. Best money I've ever spent. I haven't seen a single ad on KZbin in like 3 years, and my favorite creators still get paid when I watch their videos. I hate to give KZbin even MORE money, but it sure makes for a better viewer experience.

[@subroutinestv5017]

@Sthaman Sinha And they both make less than supporting an artist directly. Get yourself an ad blocker, then hit up their Patreon. Or buy their book, their music, t-shirts, PayPal, and so on.

[@mikosoft]

Since the vid is demonetized, he literally only has other ways to support him.

[@Whalewraith]

Adds are everywhere at the moment. I think they are actually trying to annoy you into subscribing.

[@trixonx]

Google in 2004: Don't be evil Google in 2020: Don't be anything, but Evil

[@TheLinuxYes]

Google's sit at home stock owners in 2020: where's ma' money??

[@MatteoPrezioso]

So fucking true.

[@spartan876]

You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain

[@davidnika446]

That slogan was a tell, wasn't it? I mean, why that "warning", out of apparently nowhere, for no apparent reason?

[@xisotopex]

and censor any opinion that google doesnt like, heck censor facts that back up an opinion also, why not.

[@migueldelmazo5244]

Music execs: You know, if we just sliced open the goose that lays the golden eggs, we could get at those eggs faster...

[@xxxblackvenomxxx]

Miguel del Mazo yep, that's how stupid those people really are and I know because I had to work with them.

[@migueldelmazo5244]

Sorry for that. Hope you are happier now. :)

[@conifergreen2]

One day KZbin will be a dinosaur.

[@schaekker7411]

@@conifergreen2 hopefully ,, i'd have no problem with that

[@DJGodaryD86]

@@psychoprosthetic Vimeo, DailyMotion, Video (yes that is a website), Rutube... pick your platform, there are endless pages in the universe of internet the difference being some people are way too stupid stuck on this failed platform.

[@TheArtofGuitar]

I only had one skippable ad in the beginning of my newest 12 minute video. Of course I have 1/3 the subs as you but still, I can imagine the frustration.

[@mrlskippy8863]

Thanks for teaching me how to use a strap. You may have less subscribers but you're still doing a lot for beginner guitarists.

[@tenvolt]

It's probably also a factor of the fact that in that particular video there are like 12 different songs so 12 different labels/publishers fighting for a piece of the pie.

[@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar]

The Art of Life responded! ANNIIIIII

[@Comintern1919]

To be honest, if there is one think I'd say we all should agree on it's that ads at the beginning of a Video are the worst. Skippable or not. I, like thousands upon thousands of people often don't have a particular Video they want to watch but just skip through Videos to find an interesting one. SO having to wait 5 or sometimes more than 15 seconds for an ad only to find out after 5 or 10 seconds that I don't want to watch the Video, only to click on another Video to gain having to watch an ad, sometimes the same over and over again... It doesn't even make sense, think about it, why should the creator or KZbin be paid via Ad Revenue for a Video I haven't even watched yet and may not even watch at all.

[@HaruEb]

Everyone should take a look at Tom Scott's "KZbin's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is." to get a better understanding of the reality of modern copyright enforcement practice.

[@MadsterV]

it's in USA, who pushed it to EU and then to the resto of the world... we only have it because it was forced on us

[@SeanBietz]

You're my Martin Scorsese!

[@mvp019]

Well Rick is Italian, but he has way better eyebrows that Scorsese.

[@tombattistella6692]

@@mvp019 Please do not disparage Marty's eyebrows

[@jkbaca41]

I was just talking to my Wife about this a few days ago. Ever since the COVID-19 quarantine started these ads have been out-of-control!!! I've never seen so many ads on videos before.... And not just yours!!! Not just music ones!!!! It's Outrageous!!!!!

[@troopin]

Also I just got a new phone with newer Android etc and I'm seeing literally 5-10x more ads in the KZbin app

[@jkbaca41]

@@troopin If I use the YT app instead of Firefox... ads galore!!!!!

[@Velvetspoonful]

@@jkbaca41 Hail Adblock, long and propser

[@lionheart0750]

yeah definitely saw an increase in unskipable ads... i gave in and just paid the $12 a month

[@ExtremelyAverage1]

We need to develop a new video platform, be cause this will never end.

[@woofie8647]

What the advertisers should realize is that we, at least I, never use these ads...I click them off as fast as I can. They are annoying as hell!

[@andrefjbernardo]

"The thing is nobody wants to have this ugly ads interrupting their video" - LOL "Ugly ads" Exactly! The internet used to be a peaceful place, now there's just a flood of noise everywhere.

[@passageways]

Banner ads used to dominate sites before adblock existed or was widespread. KZbin and a relatively small number of other sites used to be better THAN THEY ARE NOW, but the internet, as a whole, has been chock full of ads since the '90's.

[@Gummibri]

@@passageways Are you saying that local singles in my area are dying to meet?

[@Markle2k]

Someone needs to put you into a time machine and take you back to 1999. PUNCH THE MONKEY!!!

[@CaesarTjalbo]

KZbin wants to sell their paid version. I've to deny the offer for a free trial like three times per day

[@michaelstein7510]

Yeah, they just bumped up the cost significantly, and I think many people dropped KZbin Premium in response, so they’re getting desperate to attract new buyers for the service. I hope they realize bombarding us with ads like this isn’t gonna help.

[@PhilippensTube]

That's it! Totally agree! I noticed they bumped up the annoying ads when they started the paid service. That's the main reason I'll refuse to take the paid version. I just won't give in to extortion. Now I just use the AdBlock and I only have to deal with a skippable add at the beginning. Not sure if it's because of the AdBlock plugin or it's geographically (I'm in Europe). But I hate ads, but I won't let 'm force me into a paid subscription.

[@craigfazekas3923]

It was over when Google took over KZbin. What was it, 12-15 years ago ? You could watch, unencumbered. And Roger Hodgson allowed Supertramp material without attaching his own name to all their material, too. Seems a long time ago....😎

[@12string-Randy]

I just ranted about this very same thing on one of your other videos so thanks for bringing this up. It's really getting to the point of unwatchable and I'm ready to just do away with you tube altogether and that's a shame because we have all learned so much from everyone's teaching channels and I truly appreciate all the time you guys put into your videos. Thank you.

[@dogphlap6749]

I can't help feeling saturation advertising has to be counter productive. Having an intrusive and long advertisement frequently coming between me and the content I want to watch does not make me inclined to buy the advertised product, quite the opposite.

[@dumpygoodness4086]

EXACTLY. WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? EVERY CEO is DONALD TRUMP and MIKE BLOOMTURD: an Empty Suit who got the job via NOT MERIT. This is why advertising is POINTLESS BULLSHIT (when it's not a bribe tween some company and the press, so the press always do NICE stories on that company). SMART PEOPLE do not run Chevy or Pepsi or The Supreme Court (watch Blackout Brett Kavanaugh to see how childish and thuggish most judges are!) or become president! (The Governors of NH and NYC both got their jobs by...coming out of mom's vagina, just like the owner of the NYTimes, owners of the NYPost and ALL OF THEM. All family dynasty BULLSHIT and illegality, as they rig our entire society for the rich.) THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO ADs RIGHT!!! (INcompetent, destructive capitalists!) EX: ALL you have to do is have a SEXY FEMALE VOICE WITH A FOREIGN ACCENT for most ad copy, and we here in America would LOVE to hear each ad. Or even a Catchy Jingle can hook us. Or GORGEOUS VISUALS. Or clever wit. ETC ETC. INSTEAD, they all make ads that NONE OF US PAY ATTENTION TO and ignore!! FUCKING IDIOTS RULE OUR WORLD. Time to start burning their mansions down. They destroyed our quality of life. (Plus the Declaration Of INdependence says we MUST lynch the Establishment and Govt every 100 years or so!)

[@RCAvhstape]

@@dumpygoodness4086 You need to see an ad for crazy pills.

[@privateerburrows]

@Dumpy Goodness: You are 100% right; every word. Let me add a little thought: Left and Right are levels of income/wealth redistribution tastes. Call them "economic ideologies" but they are NOT "political" systems. According to Plato, the main 5 political systems are Aristocracy, Timocracy, Plutocracy, Democracy and Tyranny. Feudalism, the REAL political system right now under a thin disguise of Democracy, is a particularly corrupt type of Plutocracy. I was bringing this up because people get seduced in droves by this left/right "political" duality and debate it as if it were real, when in fact it has nothing to do with politics. Meanwhile most people don't know the difference between Timocracy and Plutocracy, or why Socrates classifies Democracy as the second-worst form of government. But I'm not contradicting your assertion that all leaders, managers and elites are inbred, incompetent and stupid. The only exception is Elon Musk. But as retarded as they are, the SYSTEM they've set up (the Rothschild's, mostly) is super clever and water-tight.

[@dumpygoodness4086]

@@RCAvhstape COOL DEFLECTION, BRO. (Weird that 100% of my critics ADMIT to having the mind, the soul, and the heart of Chancellor Hitler, whose NUMBER ONE DEFLECTION TACTIC [b/c he could never prove his critics wrong] was.... TO CALL HIS OPPONENTS "crazy" etc. No intelligent person ever uses juvenile DEFLECTIONS like "take your meds" etc. PLUS, you plagiarize this nazi garbage, child.) DISPROVE ANYTHING I POSTED. If you could, you wouldn't have had to DEFLECT like Hillary Trump. TIME TO EVOLVE, caveman. (Or you should go into politics!)

[@dumpygoodness4086]

@@RCAvhstape And your "rebuttal" is far more idiotic than i suggest. EX: THE FOUNDING FATHERS LITERALLY USED VIOLENCE AGAINST THEIR OWN GOVT to liberate our nation, ya 5 year old. READ the Declaration Of Independence. (Oh right: if you could read, you'd have understood my post!) JEFFERSON and the Founders (ALL FUGITIVES FROM POLICE, like Anne Frank was, look it up, Einstein) not only murdered a LOT of the King's Kops (Redcoats)...but they created teh Bill Of Rights to protect US CITIZENS from Law ENforcement! (That's ALL the BoR does! Protect us from cops, judges, prosecutors, politicians!) DON'T LIE: You vote for corrupt GOP and DEM politicians and then complain that you have to pay $1 billion EVERY 24 HOURS (!!) to COMMUNIST (!!) China...and that's just INTEREST payments on the largest debt in history. Being stupid has not panned out for you, Murican!

[@tylerphillips503]

Rick may be the first person to ever use Incognito Mode for something productive

[@leeallengrange3538]

I have never...EVER...bought anything from an ad I saw in a KZbin video. I can maybe count on one hand the number of times I’ve been curious enough about something I saw in an ad to explore it off youtube, but again, never bought anything.

[@chriscather1316]

There's far bigger than record labels wanting to get paid. I watched a 20 minute psychology video the other day that had 7 commercial breaks. No banner ads, straight up interrupting commercial breaks every 2 1/2 minutes. Some were skippable but many were not. This is KZbin simply annoying us into buying KZbin as a premium service. I get a pop-up offer for KZbin premium pretty much every time I open KZbin. Subscribe to KZbin and avoid the ads! It's more then music, it's KZbin trying to become a subscription based service like Netflix or HBO.

[@kennethsrensen7706]

The have started to turn down volume on interesting content and turn up volume extremely loud in the ads , It's totally sick and have made me skip many videos. You sitting and listen and suddenly an extremely loud add starts and shock you while you rush to turn down volume. Just plain sick .....

[@redrider5118]

Rhett shull getting demonitized for his own solo is such garbage. That one really set me off

[@alanpettibone]

That one blew me away. It sounds like the record industry and the creeps that file frivolous copyright disputes have KZbin by the short curlies, and YT likes the abuse. I have been using Vimeo to get away from these jackoffs, but obviously guys like Rick and Rhett just aren’t there... yet. We need a new platform that hasn’t been taken over by the evil empire.

[@AndiPicker]

Pretty sure the issue was that he showed a video that's owned by someone else, not that he played his own music.

[@crabbtrixexp]

@@AndiPicker it was a video of his own music, but because the footage from a canadian radio show he did, they are claiming it as theirs.

[@greybeardbass]

Really feels like extortion at times. Pay us or we're going to make the experience miserable for you. Double ads at the beginning of videos are obnoxious and being forced to turn off banner ads (usually covering something important, as you pointed out) or breaking into an ad at a critical point. Squeaky wheels get replaced. I'd be more willing to pay for the experience if the videos I liked were not part of a continuous hostage negotiation.

[@cheeziobodini]

Just get an adblocker. I've been using one for years and almost don't remember that ads exist.

[@cloudbloom]

@@cheeziobodini do you have any free recommendations for mobile ad blockers (android)?

[@44numskull]

KZbin is irritating us into subscribing.

[@fqed]

2023 here and they upped it again. Got 8 ad breaks w/ 2 ads per (5s skip, but still) They've now radicalized me enough that I am proactively trying to ruin their income.

[@BeerBenjamin]

Totally agree with the ads. On some videos I watched (not yours) the ad would cut off the word of the presenter. It is so annoying! Thank you for your channel, you are really helping me get back into music and guitar playing after years of absence. Best wishes, Ben

[@Pr0fitOfDoom]

KZbin should let creators specify the timing of the ads. When you upload a video, it should tell you you will have 2 unskippable ads, two skippable ads, two banners, and then creators can mark the timings where they will appear on the video, therefore giving some control over interruption of the flow of the video. Obviously with some parameters so the creators can't bunch them all at the end for example. This will allow the creator to take pauses in the content where it knows the ad can sit and prepare in advance. Seems like a win win for both parties.

[@MrShimwood]

I'm honestly surprised I never considered this. With the way most companies want to treat the Internet like television, this would be a very welcomed evolution of online advertisement.

[@room34]

Given the inevitability of these ads being inserted (I really don't see them going away), this absolutely makes sense. Right now it's totally arbitrary, sticking them right in the middle of a sentence most of the time. If there's no way to avoid having them, at least let the creators indicate the logical breaks where they could go.

[@blaker4807]

Honestly, yeah. Imagine watching a show on television and during some climactic part, it just goes to commercial. Same thing

[@RobertRoweMusic]

Yes! There should also be cap on the number of ads per video (based on length of video, maybe?)

[@marxug1]

That sounds logical, and a way for everybody to have a good experience. Except that KZbin has a perverse incentive to make it a bad experience for any viewer not paying for KZbin Premium. If you’re irritated, the more chance you’ll give them the subscription they really want. I think that’s the calculation, short-sighted or not.

[@EricMacFadden]

I've NEVER saw an ad on YT - Ad blockers are part of my browsers since ever - and NEVER used the KZbin app

[@mrgordons]

Yup!

[@DirtyHippyStudio]

I think its time to.go.back to.the browser youtube. Ads are becoming.more and more frequent and unskipable

[@Kurt1969]

Exactly. Why is this an issue?

[@Ripplin]

You probably will eventually. I'm on a desktop using Chrome with Adblock Plus and other goodies, and the unskippable ad at the beginning has been popping up for a few weeks now. Had NEVER seen that before. First time it happened, I asked a friend and it happened to him too.

[@LiveeviL6969]

@@Ripplin I'm also using the same setup, but I don't actually see the ad, but I get a box to Skip Ad and a gray screen. I still have to skip the ad at the beginning now to watch. Still better than being bothered by ads.

[@charlytaylor1748]

Them: "I see you are using an adblocker" Me - You're darn tootin'

[@DylanMadd]

So awesome of you to look into this. I watch on mobile device. So I have several breaks of 2 15-20 second long ads back-to-back. Some I can skip. Others, no. It’s maddening. On the plus side, I don’t see banners over your notations. Doesn’t happen at all on mobile. I’m watching KZbin become mainstream.

[@bullcrapptv]

Music on KZbin is about to breathe its last breath. Education, appreciation, imitation, homage, critique, review... gone. Ruined in the name of pennies for the publisher. I'm clueless why the artist isn't getting the money. And if they are, I'm clueless why the artists don't raise a stink and protect all the things I listed above.

[@gps9715]

Switch to bitchute.

[@pthomas36]

I've had an ad-blocker for years, and right now as I glance up at it, it's showing me that it's blocked TWENTY EIGHT ads on this tab. In a 7 minute video. Presumably that's 28 attempts to show ads but whatever. I don't get these interruptions and it's one of the most marvelous, blissful web tools there is. Without it, I wouldn't have such a youtube obsession!

[@Module79L]

I'm also getting 28 ads blocked by U Block Origin during the video (2 more after the video ends), so apparently the ads are the same worldwide (I'm in Portugal).

[@offcenterprofilepicture6274]

i just looked up at my adblocker and theres 31 blocked ads.

[@kassemir]

Some of these are probably not video ads though, but banner ads next to the video. But still, yeah. Too much. It's like network television, but on crack in terms of ads. It's actually disrespectful. Imagine how much time you'd waste if you actually watched all of these ads.

[@WromWrom]

uBlock Origin blocked 33 (!) ads here. And as a YT creator myself I know it hurts creators. But with the ad world becoming so annoying all over the interwebs, it's the only way to so something without getting eye and ear cancer.

[@BlindEyeSantorella]

This whole way of forcing ads on us watchers hits below the belt! Finding out that the video creator has literally no say, other than pay an extra fee so as to not have them pop up all over your work, is just such a monopoly for these greedy money grubbers to have that much control over it is just plain sickness!! Why can't they figure out a way to use the ads without interrupting the video creator's work? These companies who control how the ads are used should do some real work, and come up with a more stable plan to work with these video creators so they can have them viewed by the watcher without interrupting the video creator's works! God bless you Rick for all the struggles you've endured that come from being a video creator man!!!

[@510Delmundo]

Shouldn’t they pay YOU for the ad space? That’s how we got “free” TV back in the day. Remember “Wild Kingdom brought to you buy Mutual of Omaha”? MofA PAID for that show and everyone involved in it. How are you not being compensated for them using your creation to create brand awareness?

[@cristianescobar9997]

"I understand that they have to make money....". NO. Don't. Screw them. I remember the early noughties, when they reached the laziest point ever of marketing an act, and you were paying full retail price for an album just to have a two page booklet that consisted entirely in the song list printed in a bigger size type. That was back when they were "fighting hard" against the threat of online file sharing. Almost 20 years on and the label heads still get to spent these rough times in fancy accommodations while actual musicians of newer generations still struggle, and the best idea they've come up with is to butcher songs and content to place disrupting ads in the middle, with the same effect an electricity blackout during a rave party would have. I'm extremely reluctant about installing plugins and stuff, but I did add an ad-blocker 10 years ago, and have been having a great time listening to music on KZbin ever since, so much that I can hardly relate to what is being mentioned on this video.

[@Shaun.Stephens]

Hear hear! Ublock Origin does the job for me and I don't feel bad about it at all. (I wonder if this comment will be redacted by Google?)

[@josfur1977]

yep me too I give this PIMPING corporations my phones youtube app and thats it on my PC I am also free like you... cant relate to anything people are complaining! Ublock origin does the trick so well!

[@NewVine]

You are part of the problem. It costs money to make decent music... and consumers are spoiled.

[@phaikyouser9499]

@@NewVine sorry dude, the days when your industry mattered are up. Music is now a background noise for most people. Music is now free for most people. You are not getting my money anymore. Stop groveling and get some self-respect.

[@hut8_newzealand361]

It's hideous the way the money bags have hounded kim dot com for his file sharing service with their "black helicopter" raid on his house etc. You can get just about any song you want on spotify for free or a small cost. This is how people consume music these days. Or you can buy second hand CD's at an op shop for next to nothing or even buy second hand records. Music companies are just alienating their consumers by annoying you tubers making content under fair use copyright law. You can also see may full songs with video on you tube and fair enough in they are de-monetised. My ad blocker has blocked over 300,000 ads. I never buy anything based on a you tube add so why not block them. By the time I have propped up the banks by paying a mortgage, rates, power, run a vehicle, phone and internet and food there is not much left to give to my financial overlords anyway.

[@martinheath5947]

KZbin is like a restaurant owner having a waiter come up to your table while you're enjoying a nice evening out, to put turds in your drink and release the occasional fart.

[@MrUnl0rd]

Should we be thankful the drinks are free?

[@Gilbertr14]

The one thing that these big record labels don't realise is that people like Rick are in essence brand ambassadors to these bands. How many people here now listen to a different band because of these channels? I can say I do.

[@kenny75photography2]

Glad to see you make a video about this, Rick as its been a real pain to sit through these ads, which make videos unwatchable. Another way round it though I was told was to skip to the end of the video and hit the replay and then it will play without any ads at all.

[@vixapphire]

$12/mo. until they start putting in ads there too. Remember Cable TV's early days? "Subscribe to cable and you can watch TV without commercials!" That didn't last very long.

[@78tag]

Paying for ad-free KZbin is like taking one step further onto the rat trap.

[@Veeger]

Adblock. Check it out

[@blatherama]

I run an adblocker and lately I've been getting skipable "ads" that appear as white screens with no images.

[@stevenp.sparks2953]

Same here, but only in the beginning.....

[@Pasture_Prime]

ad blocker ultimate works no ads

[@Ron4885]

I use an Ad Blocker as well. I works great. Some are free, but you can pay for some if you want too.

[@k.o.o.p.a.]

I use uBlock Origin and I never seen an ad in KZbin

[@dmthandmade5674]

Ublock Origin is the only one that reliably works.

[@KevinStCroix]

Don't think for a second this will ever change. There are people sitting in a room every minute of every day trying to figure out how to add more ads to quality content.

[@GummedLeaves]

I thought I was the only one who hates this new way KZbin is flooding the ads in these video's. These are on all types of video's I also watch cycling videos and I think it's even worst on them. The banner ad's I can live with, it's the the other ads that really mess with the flow of the videos. And really are making watching KZbin unwatchable. I understand everybody needs to make their money, but to make it unwatchable is the wrong way to do it. Love your video's Rick. I think your channel is one of the best music channels out there with so much great information. Plus I totally agree with your ideas on keeping music real and off the grid, and lack of a better way to say it. Old School with a band in a room and a great song. Keep up the fight.

[@felipepontilho3921]

What happened to the “don’t be evil” corporate code of conduct Google used to have? This is depressing... 😕

[@UnbeltedSundew]

They ejected the "Don't" part a long time ago.

[@UnbeltedSundew]

@@maidenthe80sla The initial IPO of Google was in 2004, in which the motto was included. The motto ceased to be used officially sometime in 2018. The current motto is "Do the right thing."

[@AfferbeckBeats]

@@UnbeltedSundew Do the right thing... to boost profits

[@danopo]

They started out young and ideal, and then they entered the corporate world and had to make profits, deal with competitors, sue companies for infringing on their patents, get sued by people and companies for violating their copyrights, etc. And eventually the line between good and evil is managed by lawyers and accountants.

[@johnglover4453]

Google is in possession of Tolkein's all powerful One Ring these days. They are seduced by the Power, and tricked into believing it's all "good". Google is THE most EVIL manifestation in the history of the species! All of Big Tech are agents of Mordor, working for Darkness! The War is The Free Peoples of the world vs. Google, period! Google MUST BE BROKEN!!! Freedom literally depends on it!

[@tcliff1]

I've been using Ad Blocker for years. Haven't seen a KZbin ad since then. I highly recommend it

[@StefP.]

Yeah, but how about the youtube app ads for mobiles? I can't stand them! Every video must must have an advertisement intro. This is beyond silly and so irritating.

[@tbone6924]

There are actually people who don't block ads? How adorable.

[@thomaswoo7983]

LOL!! And if you make sensible and truthful comments on ideology that's deemed protected species by Google, "shadow ban" is unleashed in your ass. It's a sinister method KZbin uses to suppress speech they don't like without your knowledge. You'll see your own banned posts but no one else will.

[@Ron4885]

@@thomaswoo7983 That does happen to me at times or on certain channels. I like the term "Shadow Ban". My comment shows up on *my* computer on the top line. If I look at my friends phone my comment is nowhere to be found. Interesting.

[@Dethmeister]

I don't use adblock on youtube or twitch to support content creators. I use it on sites like yahoo because screw yahoo. Plus it's actually a necessity on some sites, it will block dozens of ads and there will still be dozens more that still show. Well, sometimes I'll use it on a youtube video that I want to watch uninterrupted but then i'll turn it off and rerun the video and skip through it quickly and click off ads that pop up.

[@ManoNegraCG]

Seriously, I've been using adblocker on my PC for so long that I'd forgotten there are ads on youtube videos. It's been great watching your videos completely uninterrupted.

[@drewliedtke2377]

I couldn’t tell you the last ad that I even remotely paid attention to. I “x” it or skip as soon as possible, and if I can’t skip it I basically just zone out for the ad. Actually, it was probably some online guitar thing...

[@dumpygoodness4086]

FUN FACT! Many (most?) ads are actually illegal ("fraud") BRIBES. EX: you GIVE CASH to your local newspaper....YOU ARE GOING TO GET A GOOD STORY ON YOU. (EX: Rolling Stone magazine used to give ANYONE who bought an expensive ad in their mag....a GREAT RECORD REVIEW. Totally illegal pay-to-play.) The NYTimes is completely corrupt re ADVERTISING (aka cash kickbacks). EX: a reporter tried to expose Harvey Weinstein 30 fucking YEARS ago but her bosses at the NYT BLOCKED IT b/c Harvey was giving them millions per year in Mirimax ads!!! NOTHING THE SUPER-MAFIA DOES IS ACTUALLY LEGAL. But who ya gonna call? THEIR cops?

[@VinsGN]

I can honestly say I have never in my life watched an Ad and then said to myself... I need to buy that... or I need to learn more about that product.... and as for the music business and/or record companies, they have a well documented history, since their inception, of being bottom feeders

[@dumpygoodness4086]

GREAT POINT. Same here. SPREAD THE REAL SECRET: most advertising is a CRIMINAL SHAM on the public. ex: PEPSI doesn't pay a cent to air their ads. YOU PAY 100% of their billion dollar AD budget, b/c it's written OFF THEIR TAXES AS A BUSINESS EXPENSE. ALL big companies get ALL their ads and everything else FREE essentially. Spread THIS secret: COMPANIES ADVERTISE AS "legal" BRIBES. EX: HOW can the NYTimes investigate crimes by Google or Apple....if the NYTimes receives millions of DOLLARS PER YEAR....in...."ADs" by Google or Apple, get it? QUID PRO QUO, and since its DECEPTIVE, it's felony fraud. EX: the NYTimes BLOCKED a reporter's story about Harvey Weinstein being a RAPIST...20 YEARS AGO (!!)....because Harvey gave millions in cash literally to the NYTimes (via full-page ads for his Mirimax films). COMPANIES ADVERTISE....so the PRESS and TV CHANNELS will LOOK THE OTHER WAY AS THESE COMPANIES MURDERED AMERICA and our quality of life. BLOOMBERG SPENT THE MOST MONEY IN HUMAN HISTORY to run for MAYOR of NYC 3 times (GOP ballot all 3!)....and spent the most money EVER to run for president! (1 BILLION cash in 3 months!) ALMOST ALL THAT MONEY HE SPENT....was above-the-table BRIBES (and is why he's the ONLY USA Politician to have the Press etc BEG HIM TO OVERTHROW TERM LIMITS AND STAY IN POWER LIKE PUTIN ) (!!!) because it was all AD BUYS on TV, radio, and on all major WEB PAGES, etc etc. PLUS, it makes it so no reporters can report ANY of Bloomturd's super-scandals. (He's the dirtiest politician in USA History, no joke. Imagine a loser like Hitler, but with $50 billion dollars! Oh right: hitler didn't rape little boys, and it's an open secret Bloomtard is a pedo, but NO ONE wants to lose their job to write about it!) MOST ADVERTISING IS A BRIBE and criminal fraud.

[@UmVtCg]

That's not the point of an ad. And almost certainly untrue. I'll bet my ass you have watched a Coke comercial and later drank a Coke. It messes with your unconcious mind.

[@EonSound]

I've bought some products from instagram ads. Facebook really has me figured out. Fancy looking audio plugins and pretty LED RGB neon studio junk.

[@RCAvhstape]

Advertising has been shown to work, and work very well, for a good century and a half or so. Companies pay a ton of money for ads for a reason. The fact that I can watch youtube videos for free makes me okay with some advertising of some sort, but this is deliberately obnoxious and is aimed more at getting you to pay for KZbin Premium than it is at advertising per se.

[@The90sGamingGuy]

My father and myself are music junkies and really enjoy your videos showing the break downs of songs. The constant ads in videos on this site is super annoying and causing some creators to leave you tube. I just skip the ones i can and sit through the ads i can't skip but usually curse at the screen when the unskippable ads come on screen.

[@kcw1879]

When I was a lad, they had a great idea everyone liked: Cable TV. They promised us for a very low monthly fee, that we would never have to watch commercials again. We all know how that turned out; Trippe digit bills monthly AND tons of commercials. A couple years ago, I was watching Dr Phil, and they put up an emergency number at the bottom of the screen for people to call if they were at the end of their rope, which was promptly covered up by a pop up ON ANTENNA TV.

[@rabrac8753]

3:47 I agree!! Yours is definitely one of the most 'professional' KZbin channels out there. The videos are always smooth, a pleasure to the eyes and ears, and being a beginner musician, I've learned more from this channel about the big things and the nuances of music than any other channel. Always gonna support you sir, as much as I can

[@thestrangermusic]

How to fix this: 1) Google for Chrome's extensions that block KZbin adds (there are several); 2) Choose and install one; 3) Enjoy your life free from corporate bloodsucking overlords. It saves you an absurd amount of time.

[@scbunn]

except your chrome overlords that are spying on your activities ?

[@jollyvoqar195]

Sucks to have to do this because sites need revenue but I agree, the ads are obnoxious and intolerable and blocking has to happen. I simply do not visit sites that block adblock.

[@RCAvhstape]

Chrome? By the same people who own KZbin? lol

[@5stringKen]

Facebook is free because Overlord Zuckerberg gets to spy on you. Gmail and many other Google apps are free because Google gets to spy on you. I'm OK with that, but not with paying Google KZbin to get rid of ads. Spying is enough to get Zuckerberg rich, it should be enough for Google as well. So, AdBlock Plus for me.

[@ExaltedDuck]

You might try the Jim Sterling Chains of Love strategy. Include a song owned by a label that disallows monetization entirely. Supposedly, that will prevent other claimants from forcing ads on your demonetized videos.

[@JacobFrey]

As somebody who wasn't born yesterday, I'm familiar with the concept of an un-skippable ad interrupting my show (video). Meh, no big deal. KZbin has given you a choice, and you can pay for that privilege.

[@chrisggoodwin777]

I've found (at least watching on my phone or casting to my TV) skipping all the way to the end of a video and selecting replay will bypass ads. Worst case, I may have to watch one ad, but it's worth it to skip the rest of them. Rick, you're 100% correct, though, not only are the ads annoying, but they do come up at the absolute worst times. I think that's because KZbin isn't made for commercial breaks, so there's no natural place to insert an ad. Thanks for another great video!

[@caelphillips8895]

I would HIGHLY recommend switching to Brave browser. It has a built in ad block that's currently being restructured for the current KZbin Algorithm. It's built off of the Chrome engine so you can keep your bookmarks and extensions

[@deebee7909]

Thanks for that. I'm gonna check it out now.

[@99percentirish64]

Yes sir!

[@mangoherpson]

I recommend youtube vanced for android users. A third party app you can download, blocks all ads on mobile KZbin. Looks and acts the exact same way as regular youtube.

[@guitarjag1]

I use Brave and can confirm it works like a charm -- 49 blocked items so far at six minutes in.

[@lucyf9034]

@@mangoherpson hi! which vanced exactly? I got multiple results and not so great reviews.

[@witzendoz]

Just like television, ad after ad that cuts in mid sentence, I end up not watching tv.

[@murringo9]

KZbin has totally destroyed KZbin.

[@frollixz3773]

Money ruins everything. KZbin really needs to get it’s sh*t together.

[@singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614]

The banning and deletion of conservative channels is it's biggest offender.

[@EclecticSceptic]

*Capitalism ruins everything.

[@singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614]

@@EclecticSceptic nice try, capitalism CREATES everything, GREED is what ruins it.

[@singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614]

@G Galilei another communist in the comments section 👍

[@EclecticSceptic]

@@singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614 Let's politely disagree :)

[@conorschipul5454]

Finally a creator speaking up about this, I've seen this happening for about a month and it makes so many videos so annoying to get through

[@KennethGonzalez]

You're spot on here! 1. Yes, we're still suffering the hangover from the shift to MP3s and digital delivery of content. I think we'll be dealing with this for a long time to come. 2. I support artists (even the "conglomerates" :-/) and their need to earn a living. Given the almost ubiquitous nature of KZbin, there has to be a more elegant way of handling this. 3. My proposal to Alphabet/Google/KZbin is to create a set of meta tags that creators can use to specify a preferred position for and time code at which injects of ad overlays can occur and NOT destroy the viewer experience. To me, this is the most workable solution, but it's also the most problematic, as it requires collaboration with the creator community and it doesn't really seem like KZbin is any good at collaboration, as you and your fellow creators experience due to the its inaction on "Fair Use." Keep up the good fight, sir! 👍😉 /kengon

[@DavidPalmer_blinder]

i don't understand how labels/publishers could go after your content in the first place. Your content is transformative, which last i checked was a little thing called fair use.

[@OwenDavey]

Thanks for addressing this, I do covers of full songs and ads show up all of the time that I wish I could turn off. When there’s 2 full unskippable ads in the middle of the best parts of long epic songs it definitely takes the viewer out from the song. A lot of people don’t understand that I can’t control it and it makes it look like I’m making money from it and I don’t care if it’s bombarded with ads.

[@kylereece1979]

Just wanna say that even though the ads are outta your control - ,I love the "What makes this song Great" series so much, that any interruptions dont even disrupt with the "Even Flow" of the video itself. This channel has helped me so much during my nights in lockdown,and its been a joy seeing and hearing you dig into songs that made me who I am, and also uncover a new curiosity in songs that were not always on the radar with me. I sadly have no music theory,but love listening and trying to learn along from the emotions you convey by addressing what modes move the music along.

[@jpolar394]

Commercials and advertising are the main reason I don't watch or listen to the radio or watch the TV anymore. One time I counted the phrase DOT COM was said 107 times in 1 hour over a local NYC Radio station.

[@miket485]

The relatively new You Tube irritant is once a video is over they start running ads. It used to be when it was over, it was over. For some reason this sticks in my craw more than some of the the ones Rick references.

[@telemeister]

I've noticed a massive increase in the number of ads in almost all the channels I subscribe to. Really irritating, and ALMOST makes you want to pay for KZbin Premium.....(I say almost because they are forcing you down that path which I find unconscionable)

[@roberteltze4850]

Not just more ads but I've noticed they've started pushing extremely long ads like hour long infomercials.

[@tmorelli1982]

@@YeeLeeHaw I spend more time on KZbin than any other platform. It's $10 a month for the premium, and you get both Google Play music as well as KZbin music included at no additional cost. What is your take on subscription services such as Netflix that are completely behind a paywall huh? You must REALLY hate them

[@sharpvidtube]

Use the Brave browser or a free add blocker. I didn't see any adverts, I am getting the first one occasionally now but no banner adverts or any in the middle of videos. No way I'm paying to remove adds.

[@tmorelli1982]

@@YeeLeeHaw treat [us] like garbage? Lol. Predatory?

[@tmorelli1982]

@@YeeLeeHaw You're kind of a weirdo huh

[@JasonBennett1]

This explains so much. I actually quit watching the Pearl Jam "Black" video after the 3rd or 4th video ad. Thanks for letting us know it isn't you - I had no idea that YT doesn't just de-monetize, they shift the allocation decisions to the publishers.

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Just use brave

[@J.Burrough]

You’ve done & do a great job putting your vids together! It’s obvious there’s a lot of thought on how they flow. The commercials have ruined my experience & train of thought to learn something new. Like I say you’ve done an incredible job, imo. It’s KZbin’s constant interrupting & platform changes that discourage me.✌🏼

[@j.dragon651]

I have an ad blocker and hadn't seen ads for a very long time. Lately, every once in awhile, they have been popping up again. Maybe I have to look for another one. I love it when sites tell me to turn off my ad blocker. I immediately close out. Whatever they were offering they lost their chance to pitch whatever it was. I turned my TV off over a year ago. I was in a hotel last week and had nothing better to do so I turned it on. The ads were insulting to my intelligence. Do they really believe if they show me a pretty girl I am going to buy their car? I guess some guys do. The insurance ads starting with overprice Gieco are really annoying. It seems no one touts the quality of their products any more because there isn't any quality built in. It is all use once throw away.

[@SepticFuddy]

AdGuard blocks them all for me. Every time I watch with someone else on their Roku I'm rudely reminded that youtube does, in fact, actually have ads

[@freekornwilly]

Your being modest. I’m sure Martin Scorsese is saying “I know I’m no Rick Beato”...

[@ballsrgrossnugly]

If he's talking about having an encyclopedic knowledge of scales and chord modes, then yes, I think he bloody well would!

[@gregaltenhofel7326]

I feel in addition to what Rick said. The extra ads we’re seeing was to push us in to a subscription. Something that happened to me just a couple days ago on my phone. The video I was watching went to an ad. The video was playing fine. Then the ad had to load and I got tired of waiting for it to buffer, & just stopped watching it all together. No Rick it wasn’t one of yours. So here’s the deal KZbin. You posses the ability to make your product greater than it already is while making more money. You also posses the ability to make it not worth watching. While we watch it tank. Then years later, talk about that thing “what was it called” that use to be. To advertisers; you in numbers have more power than any of us. Make demands.

[@mrlionel1965]

Amen!

[@ifiwasyouiwouldntbe]

"To advertisers; you in numbers have more power than any of us. Make demands." You mean those same advertisters who caused both ad-pocalypse's and made the platform like this? I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.

[@johnathanasiou9284]

It's not just your channel Rick, they are doing this to every channel I watch & I agree its massively annoying. The worst part is their AI bot can't even pick an ad which I might be even remotely interested in or as usually is the case, they are just downright boring i.e. that ad where Baldwin bangs on about "how we missed on buying Google stock". Look, I understand they need ads to support the YT platform but considering they have accurate view counts (unlike those TV & radio surveys), this is getting a bit too much. As an example, I was watching a video from steveo1kinevo (Aviation channel) & it puts on an ad for tampons!. Thank god, yours & other creators YT content is actually worth watching and pushing through these ads. I've also seen it with your videos, exactly as you described it. Considering that funny ad compilations get millions of views, it seems our ad creators are still half asleep to what the market & consumers want & respond to. The thing that annoys me above all with these YT ads bombardment is that they then have the absolute hide to demonetise YT creators even if they play music for 10sec, or like with your channel which not just brilliantly explains music production & inspires musicians worldwide but is also a community service teaching young (and not so young!) folk about long forgotten, brilliant pieces of music whilst at the same time bang on about how they supposedly "care" about YT creators. If they or "music societies" ever watched FBE YT channel & see the videos about whether a generation knows music from an era, they will be incredibly shocked at how much most kids these days don't know. Well if YT actually cared about YT creators, why do they always demonetise your & other YT content creators videos?. Hypocrisy, much on YTs part I believe & if they keep on carrying on like this, I'm sorry Mr Baldwin but I'm glad I never ever bought Google stock if they will shoot themselves in the foot like this!. Keep up the awesome work, Rick. Love the channel!

[@luizbrunoadultchildren]

I've been using Adblock for like 5 years now Rick and youtube somehow figured it out as now most videos don't load or just fade to black right in the middle to the point where it got so bad I've had to disable Adblock to watch videos and it's just absurdly irritating. Love your channel!

[@KindredBrujah]

The only solution I can think of which retains KZbin's desire to include advertisements everywhere is to give the content creator the freedom to place the ads where they want. So if KZbin says: "You must have 3 full-screen ads and 3 banner ads in this video" then the content creator simply chooses where to have those, perhaps with some restriction (you can't have them all stacked at the end, for example). But at least if the specific timing of them was at the creator's control, they could ensure nothing annoying like banners covering text or interrupting an important discussion occur.

[@Bezowinz]

Or YT share a schedule; ad every X minutes. This way folks can edit accordingly like tv.

[@D.NogueraMusic]

@@Bezowinz KZbin uses an algorithm for that too, but it depends on the video content. On videos like Rick's, they just bombard randomly the adds but I've seen some videos where ads are placed right before exposing main subject(s) or the ideas throughout the video.

[@lucbos7516]

Download Adblock Plus into your browser Problem solved

[@aka.Mr.French]

^^ This. I use Firefox & Adblock Plus, and see ZERO ads on YT. It's asinine to be forced to have to take this action, but YT's advert policy makes it necessary. If they came up with a sensible option (like Kindred's), maybe I'd reconsider... but forcing eyes onto ads is self-defeating; it's more likely to create resentment than spawn customers.

[@KennethGonzalez]

Made the same comment in my reply to this! 👍 Unfortunately, this is likely too much like *actual collaboration* to get implemented! ☹

[@adrianscarlett]

Personally, I'll do my best to avoid products and services that are advertised excessively or intrusively.

[@felipesepulveda245]

Rick, my brother and I we are amateur musicians from Chile, we watch your content every day because it is not only inspiring but highly educational. I’m also an Emmy award winner cinematographer and I can tell you that you ARE a special kind of Scorsese! Your work is truly well crafted, you can see in it your heart and soul! Our love to you, please keep up the good work, we’ll skip everything that’s necessary to skip to watch Mr. Beato. Greeting from South America.

[@aaronwilcox6417]

Im not a musical person at all but your channel has allowed me to somewhat understand music and open things up ive never seen or noticed. Excellent channel and even for non musical folks like me your channel is a treasure. Yeah I agree about the ads

[@LoganCovers91]

Use uBlock Origin, never worry about ads anywhere.

[@RealHIFIHelp]

Exactly, this is the only ethical blocker, most others sell your information.

[@playmoreguitar5393]

Thanks for sharing

[@caneratl7583]

I recommend adding Privacy Badger on top of that, it disables trackers.

[@FernandoTSacher]

@Ataraxia ... yes i was forced to use that because the brave integrated adblocker was not cleaning any youtube ads !

[@BrunoNeureiter]

What about mobile?

[@janvandebeek3576]

i simply use "adblockplus"......NO ADDS at ALL..!!

[@MatthewHoag77]

uBlock works better. (I have both, and there's a difference.)

[@pinkfreud62]

I have it on my cell, but now my work place blocks alot of apps including any Adblockers. A real pain when trying to listen to stuff while working. Grrrrrrrrrrr! >:(

[@Ripplin]

I use ABP too and even that is not immune now. Right at the beginning of random videos, the screen is white, and I have to click on a 'Skip Ad' box at the bottom right. That's all I get, but I never even used to get *that*!

[@cpad007]

I've never seen an ad on KZbin. I can't imagine putting up with that.

@@metalheadblues android use newpipe through the f-droid store. Or Firefox mobile has add-ons and install ublock

[@puvididdle]

Yo I noticed there’s been excessive ads on KZbin. Thanks for bringing this up. Some ads even appear right in the middle of songs..

[@andrewkochinski2620]

Greatly appreciate this video! I use KZbin playlists for my music, and ads are ruining the experience. Honestly its nice to hear a KZbin's perspective. Shouldn't be surprising it all boils down to money for records labels...

[@sski]

Since most of the creators I watch on ThemTube are demonitized for some reason, and ThemTube still loads ads on their content, I started using Brave browser last year and haven't seen a single ad on ThemTube since. Brave wipes them right out.

[@stevencox8575]

Brave is the best! I totally agree with you - no ads for me at all while watching KZbin.

[@muzallisam5068]

Same here.

[@freezatron]

Google Chrome sucks ballllllllls !! Time for me to make the switch I reckon :) In fact ever since youtube, sorry themtube was bought out by google it has gone steadily down hill and the fact that Susan WokeCheck (ThemtubeCEO) supports BLM is another nail in the coffin ...

[@valvenator]

Thanks! I'll be looking into it shortly :)

[@mindstorms44]

I honestly feel ashamed at my lack of technical knowhow I really do!.....I have an S10 phone that people keep telling me how great they are and what they can do etc but I just play music,write music,watch science stuff and hardly ever watch TV and in the UK we gave to pay a licence fee just to watch TV "legally "....... I really need to unfortunately divert time to getting up to some sort of level that I seem to be one of the last group of folk who know so little......I dont use facemook and other things I just use Instagram and KZbin but I have to say it (and this really is a first world problem) these adverts are just plain annoying, they apparently are "smart" these days too.somone told me the ads you see are constantly being updated and changed based on your activity on browsers etc and even literally listening in on your conversations......scary that one is......there is 1 person I actually know who has Never had any social media accounts EVER!......that's really rare and this guy is very tech savvy too.....he can code and all sorts of things ide like to do but I think that having no social media "footprint " is something that the current world seriously frowns on!.....looks like I'll be doing some research very soon.....greetings.

[@RichfieldAutoCenter]

The record labels don’t even realize that they’re getting free publicity for their artists on your channel....

[@kjguitarman]

THIS IS BAFFLING TO ME!! Do the record labels not realize this?

[@willmorrison1022]

@@kjguitarman Record labels are and have been run by greed rather than brains ever since Reagan. They are nothing but crooks, and most crooks just aren't that smart.

[@razgrizace8720]

@@willmorrison1022 this

[@Twinzje]

I get what you're saying but exposure isn't money

[@enjoiandrew69]

Or they realize it and they're so greedy that they want more?

[@DuaneCBlake]

Great analysis! At 2:00-ish ... Interesting to me that the annoying ad comes in "right at an important part of the video" as you say. My question based on the odd timing - is that ad placed automatically at the 2:00 minute point because YT knows that the first 1 minute of most videos are usually "introduction" content and a handy 'check-in / check-out' point? You probably know the answer, Rick, but it's worth thinking about for all of the other time points...maybe they are not so 'randomly' placed as it seems. The solution may be just to make the ads less intrusive, so it does not kill the creators' flow. Just for what its worth....

[@MrTPF1]

Agree! The ads are out of control on YT just like they are on cable TV. It's NOT going to get me to pay for "ad-free" up-purchases. It's going to make me abandon the platform.