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Monday, June 16, 2014

Why Does Youtube Replay Skipped Ads?

There I am, listening to my playlist...Phenomenology...and skipping the same ads over and over.  It's great that I can skip ads...but it's rampantly ridiculous that Google doesn't remember my preferences.  

"Yes Google...for the millionth time...I'm still not even vaguely interested in an Xbox...or a PlayStation...or a..."    

Google amnesia makes me crazy...well...at least according to Einstein's definition of insanity...doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results...  

"Maybe Google will remember my preferences this time?"  *Skip*  "Maybe Google will remember my preferences this time?"  *Skip*  "Maybe Google will remember my preferences this time?"  *Skip*

If the same salesman knocked on your door every 15 minutes...even if it wasn't difficult to shoo him away...you'd probably still call the cops.  Because that's some strange and suspicious behavior for sure.  

So who benefits from Google amnesia?  I sure don't...it's a waste of my time.  Does PlayStation benefit?  Nope, I'm skipping their ads.  Does Google benefit?  I really don't think that they get paid for an ad that gets skipped.  Playing an ad that I will skip costs them the opportunity to play an ad that I won't skip.  

So what happens if Google starts to remember people's ad preferences?  There will be no Armageddon.  There will be more awesome ads.  We will all add ads to our playlists.

Everybody's seen at least a few ads that they wouldn't kick out of their playlists.  I thought it would be fun to track down and share some of my favorites.  Uh, it turns out that there were more than I remembered.  Splendad gets quite a bit of credit for jogging my memory.  Having found nearly 20 ads, I decided to create a playlist consisting entirely of commercials which are both visually and audibly appealing....

Charmercials (Charming + Commercials)