Cruising the Cut

@JordansCereals This size reduction is infuriating. Not the pricing so much as that each bar is now barely a mouthful, they've become a uselessly tiny snack. I won't be buying them again.

@seantpcarter Cheers, it’s not something I can get to at present.

@CruisingTheCut bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Maybe do something on this and help them out and create some good content?

@JenJacks3 They had winding holes. The boats are not mirrored at each end, you can’t just swap the horse to the back.

@CruisingTheCut Hi David. I'm sure you can answer this. Did canals have winding holes when the narrowboats were horse drawn, or did the horse and tiller swap ends? It will keep me awake all night

New video! Part 2 of my France trip, featuring @rainbowlollies 372. Boating up the Fonseranes locks on the Canal du Midi (France Trip Part 2) youtu.be/TErUWeAJJps

@CanalplanAC Have messaged you a bug

Pushed a lot minor changes to canal plan today. Hopefully we've not broken anything

@dustyrojo Truly, I've no idea!!

@CruisingTheCut Guess which episode “nowhere to moor here and I want my solar panels to be able to see any sun”

@CruisingTheCut I love your show I watch it all the time .

@thomasrossetti It isn't shown, I saw it on the way back

@CruisingTheCut Sorry if this is a stupid question, but where is the cat?

@nb_Snowgoose 🤣

@CruisingTheCut I should recommend watching with subtitles on. But not with a drink 🤣

New video! A glorious weekend aboard my tiny narrowboat youtu.be/u8oi1kKfKnU If you enjoyed the video, I have tip jars at cruisingthecut.co.uk/tip-jars/ or buy my canal ebook at cruisingthecut.co.uk/ebook/

@MrAlexTech @NealWiser @YouTube @YouTubeInsider Yep, I'd do the same if a sane alternative existed.

@NealWiser @YouTube @YouTubeInsider My adsense isn't huge, but it's enough for me to notice if it wasn't there. If I can figure out some other, more beneficial ways to monetise (and make up the difference!) I'll endeavour to turn off my Youtube ads completely.

I know I know they won't get served to everyone yadda yadda but still, fuck me @YouTube @YouTubeInsider 50 ads is a bit much isn't it?!? (yes 50, I counted...) This is not improving the 'overall viewing experience' for anyone 😆

@jamiefenn @MrAlexTech @YouTube @YouTubeInsider Even seeing a quarter of those ads would be far too many. It's absolutely something to worry about.

@MrAlexTech @YouTube @YouTubeInsider Not every viewer sees every single one of those ads. Don’t worry about it. 🙏🏼

@YouTubeInsider Of course not 🤦. It's still a ridiculous time to put an ad, they've barely started watching and you interrupt them. But above all else, the notion that your auto system "knows better" than me and will penalise me for manual placement is disgraceful.

@CruisingTheCut If a viewer didn’t get a pre-roll ad would a potential mid-roll at 2:50 make sense?

What I’m doing as a creator on my personal channel: Turning on auto mid-rolls, since that system will continue to be improved and optimized by launch and over time For new videos, manually inserting additional slots if/as needed where I think it’ll provide the best experience for viewers (no point editing for retention if I don’t consider the ad experience as part of retention) For back catalog, sorting by current watch time and doing the same for the top 20-50 most-watched videos (I’ll likely do more over time) (If I see a few extra auto slots in places I don’t want them like around brand deals, I’ll just remove them, otherwise I won’t worry because slots aren’t where ads WILL be, they’re the only places ads CAN be and as long as the slots are well-placed the system will fill as best for the viewer If I see too few or too late slots, I’ll check back around launch date in May because the detection system will likely have gotten better at finding more by then) And I’ll keep the feedback coming, because mid-rolls are part of how creators and YouTube get paid so everyone is incentivized to get this right! 🙏

@bwfuels Oh my, so sorry 😔🫂

Emma passed away today. I don't know what to say. She was all of me. Always put her heart into everything she ever did. The boat is being moved from Springwell to Apsley tomorrow where I'll stay a while. Thank you

@YouTubeInsider Half the problem, I think, is that Google assumes everywhere in the world has TV as bad as the USA where ad breaks every few seconds are normal and therefore OK to adopt the same on YT. We do not accept so many breaks on British TV and video systems.

@YouTubeInsider 🤦But that's absurd. Any break at 2'50" is ridiculous. And so many possible breaks which *may* have ads played is too many. Especially when I have very carefully selected points. Your 'AI' system telling me my understanding of my content is less good than its, is nonsense.

@YouTubeInsider And I notice YouTube's Forum won't allow any criticism of the system (I tried numerous - polite - versions of this thread, all rejected for being "against community guidelines")

Hi! Those slots aren’t where ads will definitely run, they are the only places where ads are allowed to run. The ad system won’t fill them all, and if you and I watch the video, we will likely get ads in different places Which slot actually get filled with ads, depends on a variety of factors, including importantly, personalization for the viewer

@YouTubeInsider Irritating the viewers with far too many breaks, and irritating the Creators by making it awkward to change (with an implied threat of lower revenue if we dare to challenge Mighty YouTube) is *not* going to improve revenue or retention or my temper.

@YouTubeInsider And though I opted out for my archive, it seems this does not apply to new uploads. And when I went to delete the auto ads, it merrily made them manual ones thus making it harder to work out which ones I'd intended to include and which were YouTube's. Shockingly annoying.