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Cruising the Cut

@CruisingTheCut

Making videos about canals and narrowboats. Currently taking a break from “social” media but the videos continue on YouTube.

On a canal somewhere Katılım Temmuz 2015
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@JenJacks3 They had winding holes. The boats are not mirrored at each end, you can’t just swap the horse to the back.
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Jenny Jacks@JenJacks3·
@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
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CanalplanAC@CanalplanAC·
Pushed a lot minor changes to canal plan today. Hopefully we've not broken anything
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Dusty@dustyrojo·
@CruisingTheCut Guess which episode “nowhere to moor here and I want my solar panels to be able to see any sun”
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MrAlexTech
MrAlexTech@MrAlexTech·
@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.
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MrAlexTech@MrAlexTech·
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 😆
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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YouTube Liaison@YouTubeInsider·
@CruisingTheCut If a viewer didn’t get a pre-roll ad would a potential mid-roll at 2:50 make sense?
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YouTube Liaison@YouTubeInsider·
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! 🙏
MoiDawg@MoiDawg

If you're a YouTuber you need to go through each and every video you have mid rolls on. YouTube's new AI removed half of my ads due to "disruptive placement" on most videos, leaving some shorter videos with no ads in the first 15 mins. Shorter 8-10 min videos had no ads at all.

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B&W Fuels
B&W Fuels@bwfuels·
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
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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")
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YouTube Liaison@YouTubeInsider·
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
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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Cruising the Cut@CruisingTheCut·
@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.
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