Preroll PSA Ads Ask Viewers Not to Skip Over Homeless People

The campaign makes clever use of YouTube's 'Skip Ad' button

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A new PSA campaign is taking advantage of YouTube’s “Skip Ad” button to simulate how people ignore the plight of homelessness.

The pro bono series of preroll ads, created through a partnership between Deutsch LA, the United Nations and Tribeca Film Festival, star actor and trans activist Theo Germaine imploring viewers not to skip homeless people at the point at which the button appears on the screen, then going on to describe the problem in more detail.

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