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This week YouTube hosted Brandcast 2025 in which it revealed how marketers could make better use of the platform to connect with customers.

A few new so-called innovations were announced at the event but one has caught the attention of the internet – Peak Points. This new product makes use of Gemini to detect “the most meaningful, or ‘peak’, moments within YouTube’s popular content to place your brand where audiences are the most engaged”.

Essentially, YouTube will use Gemini and probably the heatmap generated on YouTube videos by people skipping to popular points, to determine where to place advertising. Anybody who has grown up watching terrestrial television where adverts arrive as a way to build suspense will understand how annoying Peak Points could become.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's always jarring loading a news site without ad blocking. The whole thing just seems cancerous, and that's before you can even start reading the story.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently switched phones and forgot I didn’t have an adblocker installed yet. Clicked on an article and holy shit the modern mobile web is a toxic hellscape without it…

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

your phones also heats up, and then it gets slow. had to install adblockers to preserve the life of the phone batteries.