YouTube now forcing whole Rewind 2018 video as an ad
With close to 7 million dislikes and counting, the Rewind 2018 video may well be on its way to become the most hated YouTube video of all time, but this isn’t stopping YouTube from pushing it as an ad.
Yes, we are seeing a lot of reports from users who say the whole Rewind 2018 appeared as an ad while they were watching something else. Take a look at some of these reports, that include screenshots as well:
https://twitter.com/TonyBamanabon10/status/1071996147185532929
https://twitter.com/RedditBest/status/1071831040677867521
https://twitter.com/Ilmkiv/status/1071809721152299008
https://twitter.com/loekos/status/1071589128414720000
What more, some users complained even the ‘Skip’ button was missing for them when the ad played:
https://twitter.com/WitchLagombi/status/1071908987979862016
https://twitter.com/doodboyyy/status/1072048271697227777
As far as audience reaction is considered, YouTube’s move to force Rewind 2018 as an ad is definitely bringing bad press to the company. Exactly why this is being done is anybody’s guess as of now.
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Himanshu Arora
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