So Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube and is yet to make any money back on its investment. Since the day they announced their deal, everybody has been blogging on and off about, How Google is going to monetize YouTube?

• Will they be pre-roll ads, will they be post-roll ads, will they take over the entire space, Adsense, CPC, CPM, CPA…blah, blah, blah.
• Then of course there is the whole other perspective from the users side – Will it be intrusive, will they be forced to watch ads before watching the video, what kinds of ads, how many ads per video….blah, blah, blah.

Seriously, what’s the big deal? It’s just an ad. You see them everywhere you go. From your morning newspaper, billboards on the way to work {for those still in the 9 – 5 gig}, during your lunch break {my 9 – 5 gig had advertising in the lunch room}, virtually every website you view while at work, on the way back to home again, at the grocery store, behind your receipts, all day on TV, in between your favorite sitcoms, heck even the logo on your toothbrush is a form of brand advertising.

So all these hundreds of blogs writing over and over about YouTube advertisements just doesn’t make sense to me. I mean when was the last time you called, or wrote to your newspaper and told them you don’t want to see those front page advertisements, because you feel taken over by them. It’s like they have too much news taking up the daily news adpaper.

Since they are doing revenue share the top ring of YouTube users are probably the only ones who care most about this, as they now have the potential to make some money from their videos. Well, good luck to you.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Google making a buck or two out of their buyout of YouTube. But can we keep the noise level down please, I’m trying to watch a video on YouTube.

Oh! and the other thing. Everyone outside of the U.S can be safe from seeing ads on YT for sometime as they are presently geo-targeted. Which means only Americans get to see them. Yay! for the rest of the world.

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.