For some reason I’ve been spending less time on YouTube since the Google acquisition. That might have something to do with the fact that we’re growing by leaps and bounds and I need to spend more time building the business than looking for random, obscure music videos from the 1980s on YouTube.
That being said, I happened to be on the site today and got one of the most annoying, crappy ads in the history of online advertising… and having worked through the lean 2001-02 years, I’ve seen my share of dung online.
I’d cut the YouTube folks some slack if they were still an independent company having to pay those big bandwidth fees, but man: Steve, Chad, ask Larry and Sergey if you can cash in some shares, anything, all we ask is don’t put up this assvertisement.
In case you can’t see what’s going on, that’s an entire page takeover (like a poor man’s pre roll I assume):