Google Experiments with YouTube Ad Skipping

Google will begin experimenting with allowing YouTube users to skip pre-roll ads in a test to give the company insight into types of ads that are skipped or viewed, profiles of users who engage in either action and types of ads that are most successful, Online Media Daily reported.

The experiment will also seek to determine at what point during sessions users decide to skip ads, with Google pondering an advertising model where users opt-in to ads and advertisers pay only for users who view the entire ad, according to Online Media Daily.

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