IceForce said:
ultreos2 said:
Wouldn't the simplest answer be, playing commercials in your content... Like, oh I dunno, every TV show ever made ever, literally make it a part of the content itself?
They would have to store TWO copies of every video; one with ads and one without, effectively doubling the amount of server space required to host them.
I have a somewhat limited understanding of how the advertisement systems work, but to my knowledge, that isn't the only issue with serving advertisements. As I understand it, advertisers don't trust websites self-reported numbers for unique pageviews and total viewership. Most companies who serve ads do so through their own backend, which includes trackers that pay attention to viewership numbers on their own. Advertising companies do this so they know they're getting "accurate" (or at least information they trust) information on the amount of advertisements served.
There are other issues, as well, but I'm not as aware of those details, so I don't really feel comfortable responding on that topic.
Kross has made some excellent points in several posts. I encourage reading this one [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/6.843934.20781551], despite its length. As well, this one [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/6.843934.20782065] and this one [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/6.843934.20783775].
For most purposes, advertising and budgeting are both topics with a pretty amazing number of moving parts. That's what makes threads like these so difficult, how do you take what on the face sounds like a very good idea, and outright deny people because it just doesn't work out that way in practice? Part of why discussions like this are so difficult for everyone involved.
ultreos2 said:
This is our extent of technological development? We have tivo which can literally fast forward, and some cases remove commercials, but the Internet? That's just too hard?
No really. Please do go on about how our technological advances make things like this an pipe dream.
In this case, that's not completely accurate. Websites can have relatively few lines of code to verify ad blocking, compared to a video content, which is literally data. It would effectively be two videos, one with ad files literally part of the video (increasing the file size) and one without. This would be two video files, with two respective sizes, both of which would need to be hosted on and served by the servers. Short of compression, there's not a lot that will change the fact that video files have a definitive size. There's also tracking issues that way, referenced in this post [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/6.843934.20782110], among others I'm unaware of.
That's not to say these ideas are definitively
impossible, but in this instance, probably unrealistic. The Escapist is a relatively small team, and redefining a lot of code all at once isn't possible overnight. Especially with other issues that need to be addressed in practice as well. I don't doubt many websites are experimenting with this and slowly moving toward new systems. But until someone manages to address all of the problems at once, in a financially viable way for most companies, the current system is used so commonly because of its ability to fund sites like this one.
Just my thoughts, can't speak for its 100% accuracy.