YouTube will now show 5 ads instead of 2!

YouTube is reportedly quietly testing a new ad policy, where free users are being shown five ads one after the other. As of now, the Google-owned video-sharing platform shows a maximum of two ads at a time to its free users. The information about five advertisements being shown simultaneously has been shared by many people on social media. However, it appears that this change is currently being tested on a limited number of free users.

Some users on Twitter have informed that they are seeing five advertisements one after the other on YouTube. Of course these ads are visible to free users. It seems that YouTube is secretly testing a new ad policy. Due to the very limited number of people complaining, it can be assumed that at present it has been limited to a few users.

Twitter user Mermaidvee (@BadGyalVeeVee) tagged YouTube’s official Twitter handle in her complaint, writing (translated) “So @YouTube two ads weren’t enough now you want to run five that no one cares about and I “Can’t skip (the ad).”

At the same time, The Ricked One (@LoganC01962550) also complained about YouTube showing five advertisements. Tweet wrote.

Responding to the tweet of a user mentioned above, YouTube said that this type of incident is called bumper ads, in which users are shown maximum five advertisements one after the other. These ads are 6 seconds long and cannot be skipped. The news was first reported by Gizmochina share it was done.

The tweet says, (translated) “This may be due to a certain type of ad format, called bumper ads, as they are only up to 6 seconds long. If you prefer, you can do so directly through the Send Feedback tool.” You can send feedback from YouTube.

At present, YouTube has not made any official announcement regarding the large-scale rollout of such bumper ads, so it is difficult to say whether all free users will get to see a flurry of such advertisements in the future. No.