YouTube commercials are about to get even more frustrating for viewers, as the company has announced plans to bring 30-second non-skippable ads when watching content on TVs.
during an event YouTube Brandcastthe company announced that non-skippable ads will be introduced to top-performing content to replace two consecutive ads that typically appear for 15 seconds each.
YouTube CEO Neil Mohan said during the presentation, according to what we shared Variety:
More and more viewers are watching YouTube on their home screens. Viewers especially the young ones no longer distinguish between the type of content they watch, when they turn on the TV, they want everything they love in one place from their favorite content creators, videos and blockbusters to football clips, and they can find all this on YouTube.
Variety notes that these 30-second non-skippable ads will be available to advertisers via their curated ads platform. YouTube Select.
YouTube has also confirmed that it is testing a new feature called Pause Experiences where ads will appear when a viewer pauses a video while watching YouTube content on TVs.
The ads come just a week after YouTube revealed it was experimenting with a new feature that would prevent users from viewing content if an ad blocker was enabled.
