Heads Up: Why I’ll Be Deleting All My Videos From YouTube

Did you notice YouTube has started putting ads on all videos now? That’s right, all of them – even if you specifically didn’t want ads before. I must have been the only one that missed that memo on Google’s changing policy (Google owns YouTube, after all). To my unpleasant surprise I found out the hard way and discovered ads were being playing on all my videos. Nothing you can do about it. Someone (Google) is monetizing my content and I’m not getting a penny as a thank you for creating the content to begin with.

They claim it’s to cover their cost – which I get. Hosting video online isn’t necessarily the cheapest thing to do. But still I felt tricked by this classic bait and switch: offering a semi decent video hosting solution for “free”, then slowly removing control and options to customize until eventually you slap ads on everything. Bad move, Google.

Time For A Social Media Detox?

I teach YouTube as part of my social media “detox” strategy. It may still have a place in the bigger pic…