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What feature I'd like to see added to YouTube premium is having built in sponsorblock of their own so that categories like sponsored segment or interaction requests can be automatically skipped over. Or even dislike visibility.
Until then lack of ads is not enough of a selling point for me when third party apps have what I now consider an essential feature.
Edit: I would also like the ability to create groups back. Once that disappeared I ended unsubscribing from a lot of channels that put out too much content that it flooded my feed and hurt visibility of smaller channels I wanted to see videos from.
NewPipe and Freetube on the other hand lets me create groups, so I can have a category to just see my cooking channels I follow and a separate one for hobby channels.
I’m a Premium subscriber mostly so I can still support the creators I watch, but sometimes I ask myself why it even exists when most content creators bolt in long sponsored segments. Even if they’re skippable, I should be able to enjoy the ad-free experience as advertised.
Companies don’t ask for retention statistics, so most of the time, they won’t even know people are skipping it. But I suppose if YouTube advertised a skip feature, it would decrease brand trust in creators.
Yeah, that is a good point about decreasing sponsor money.
As for premium helping out creators it has me just leaning towards buying merch directly from them being a more enticing proposition. Like they get more money, and I get something I want like the screw driver from Linus that costs less than a year of YouTube premium. Or like coasters from Gamers Nexus.
Exactly this, if sometimes I want to watch a video about my secondary hobby, but it doesn't mean that I want my feed to be flooded.
Manually curated groups without algorithms are a must
Yeah, those big channels just dominate the home feed. And Google being Google after killing off a feature still hasn't bothered to bring it back. I don't subscribe to those channels as a result like LTT and instead just visit the channel page directly. My subscriptions are for smaller ones with rare upload schedules.
Integrating sponsorblock officially would piss off both sponsors and the creators who would now get less money because sponsors aren't willing to pay as much for ad spots that don't reach everyone
Being real? Sponsor ads in video are fine by me. It's no different than tv and radio did for ages. The individual vidiots hawking whoever sponsers them just isn't an issue. It's as easy the tune out as radio spots used to be.
If YouTube's direct ads weren't fucking obnoxious, I wouldn't even object to those, but they crossed into obnoxious a decade ago with those.
It's the freaking combined wall of ads that happens when it's all together that is infuriating. You've got ads before a video, during, it, after it, splashed new below and beside it. It's just crap, and gods forbid you misclick and go back, it starts all over again.