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YouTube Will No Longer Advertise Contents Related To Drugs, Gambling Or Politics Conspiracy

...the vlogging masthead ad slot has been cleaned up to filter ill ads

Emeka Eni by Emeka Eni
June 15, 2021
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Google has reportedly limited the kind of content that ads on its vlogging platform, YouTube — this ad slot selectively displays ads according to perception, to improve credible or decent user experience. YouTube’s masthead ad slot located at the top of either of its app or web page will no longer showcase ill ads relating to gambling, alcohol, drugs, and politicians, Techbooky reports.

It worth noting that YouTube’s masthead is quite noticeable at the top of its launch page which determines the user interaction while exploring for videos to watch. For instance, a masthead that displays content about alcohol, gambling, politics, and drugs will make its users easily promote the use of these ill substances and behaviour.

According to the concepts of advertising via the web, it monitors users’ behaviour online — for contrast, what you see controls your thoughts whereby ads will iteratively display more ads that fall under any of the enlisted categories you previously viewed.

On the other hand, the previous American president, Donald Trump’s well-known political controversies is a perfect instance, whereby at the time of the previous presidential election, he booked a slot that lasted for days. While controversies about his administration and his opponent led to real-time violence by riot by his supporters.

Contents that display in YouTube’s ad masthead are liable to spread its reach across its entirety of users. Now Google’s video-blogging media has restricted access to creating awareness about ill content, in line with YouTube’s ad support page.

While Google’s YouTube masthead ad setting now automatically filters gambling, alcohol, or politics-related content to advertise on its vlogging media. This improvement by Google aims to provide social decency which Google would have enforced long ago.

Last year, Google enabled its masthead slot to filter ads according to their targeted user, meanwhile they usually reserve ads that will display for its set time. While Google has reportedly attempted to regulate its services with its outlined ad policy.

It worth noting that YouTube has curbed ill content from airing as ads on its platform — they reportedly blocked ads that broadcast conspiracy about the COVID-19 and vague theories about its vaccine, as well as using hate speech as keywords or political misinformation to promote ads on YouTube.

Nonetheless, Google’s advertising business aims to purify the contents for its users whereby lawmakers seeking to probe YouTube for antitrust violation, will have a lessen reasonable doubts of misconduct.

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