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Why Auto-Play Video Ads On Facebook Are Terrible

If you watch videos on YouTube, it’s impossible to miss the auto-playing video ads. Sometimes you can skip them after five seconds and sometimes they last 15 seconds and you can’t. Either way, the consensus is that pre-roll video ads suck.

Facebook has really amped up its advertising solutions and one such solution that may be coming is auto-playing video ads. In the news feed. Here’s the problem with that…

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investdrei

@MackCollier you are out on a limb with this one...dont see facebook doing anything but adding users over the next few yrs

MackCollier

@investdrei I may be. Course if you had made the same statement in 2005 about MySpace, people would have thought you were crazy.

investdrei

@MackCollier lol My what? There are a few differences between the two but the beautiful part about the future is it hasnt happen yet!

investdrei

@MackCollier only time will tell. Thanks for the convo! Cheers.

MackCollier

@investdrei I know but FB continues to make moves that either degrade the user experience or raise privacy concerns.

investdrei

@MackCollier agreed! But making that connection with facebook is where you lost me...we arent talking about Myspace now

MackCollier

@investdrei Any time a company grows and brings in new stakeholders, there's a danger to losing what made the co awesome to begin with.

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