Power

1.4 million views, and they won't let me place Mid-Roll ads on it after this new YouTube update. For the love of God, PLEASE @TeamYouTube give creators the option to place interruptive ads if there aren't any natural breakpoints. I might unironically lose my job, house, and financial security over this. For those that don't understand how ad placements work, each timestamp (as seen in the second video) gives you around a 1/5 chance to play an advert. So on average, most creators place them every 30 seconds to 1 minute 30 intervals depending on video length. With this new change, you physically CANNOT PLACE ADS if your content has seamless speaking throughout, since the automatic ad placement is terrible and won't actually locate a suitable space for you. This is an incredibly serious matter, any YouTube creator doing cut-commentary or that has minimal "silent" parts in a video will lose access to a majority of their ad revenue after May 12th 2025 when this change goes live. I know on the surface it "seems" like a good change - not interrupting speech with an ad break - but this will single-handedly ruin thousands of people's lives if this goes through. Completely unacceptable, and arguably the worst change in YouTube History. REVERT IT.