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What Grinds Our Gears: YouTube ads make me scream
February 9, 2024YouTube is really pissing me off lately. When I’m trying to relax, I like watching my favourite creators on my TV, but I’ve recently been getting multiple, unskippable ad breaks that are 45-seconds long. I’m talking about three or four ad breaks in a video, sometimes even five minutes apart. The worst part? YouTube claims the breaks are longer because there will be fewer ad breaks in the video, but it’s not true! These are more ad breaks, and they’re unskippable, AND they’re LONG. YOU CAN’T COMMIT THREE CARDINAL SINS TO MY PEACE. You think the drama stops at the…
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Holiday commercials are more sinister than sweet
December 11, 2020Every year after Halloween ends, they come flooding in: holiday commercials. Not just the ones that feature holiday music, deals, and colours — i’m talking about the commercials that act like a whole ass short film. Large companies spend thousands…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Could I get a little content to go with all these ads?
May 31, 2020Unprecedented times call for unprecedented media consumption. News articles, blogs, opinions pieces, factoids — like the borderline manic hypochondriac my mother always knew I’d grow up to be, I’m reading all of it. Or, at least, I’m trying to. It’s…
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Keep ads off NHL jerseys
October 6, 2014In the fifth issue of The Peak, published on September 29, writer Nick Bondi argued that the NHL should sell ad space on their jerseys. His argument essentially boiled down to the fact that “it’s inevitable” (his words) and would…
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NHL teams should wear ads on their jerseys
September 29, 2014Recently, the NHL rejected the proposed sale of advertising on jerseys, which the league estimated could net $120 million and approximately $4 million per team. The NHL declined the proposal because they didn’t want to be the first of the…
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