Valleywag
Internet users are up in arms on Digg over a months-old report, mistakenly rehashed as news by Gizmodo, that Google's YouTube site was considering adding 30-second ads to run at the beginning of its online videos. The problem? The report, from April, has been overtaken by events. YouTube's current plans, unveiled last month, are to add "overlay" ads, like the teasers you see on TV for upcoming programming, to the bottom of some videos. In a statement, YouTube group product manager Shashi Seth says that testing found that users didn't like the ads. Consider the outrage, however mistakenly founded, as further confirmation of Google's testing.
YouTube not, repeat, not adding 30-second ads
2:49 PM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Owen Thomas
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