YouTube to test two back-to-back ads in videos


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  • Thursday, 22 Nov 2018

YouTube plans to roll out new measures to combat the spread of disinformation and fake news by adding useful links to Wikipedia and other articles under conspiracy theory videos on the platform. — AFP Relaxnews

Don't you find it absolutely annoying when you’re right in the middle of an interesting video clip on YouTube and it breaks for an ad? Well, that is about to change real soon. 

YouTube has announced on its blog that it will be rolling out a new feature that places two ads back-to-back in videos. Viewers will have the option to skip directly to the content if they do not want to watch the ads in their entirety. 

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