Anyone else getting Trump ads on Youtube?

[Initech]

For some reason the Youtube ads keep showing me pro-Trump stuff ( ) even though Youtube knows that nearly all of the channels I follow are anti-Trump, and my attempts to disable the ads have only made things worse. Has anyone else got this or am I the only one?

[Lars39]

1. Yes!

Extremely aggravating

[cayugafalls]

2. I get them all the time. Trump is spamming YT.

It is a pay for play service run by google and you can pay more money to get a wider audience and more views.

Just a sad fact of life, but they must be spending a lot of money on YT as it is all over.

[RockRaven]

3. Yup. Same here. Promoted videos/ads are all Trump.

And my YouTube video consumption is mostly cooking videos and sports news, no politics of any kind.

[Initech]

9. I use Youtube to watch a lot of talk shows - Colbert, John Oliver, etc.

And the non political channels I watch are stuff like Cinemasins and Binging With Babish. But Youtube should know that I don't follow any Trump channels.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. No, but I often see them here on this site.

[Mike 03]

5. Yes, it was in the news that Trump's campaign did an ENORMOUS ad buy to

carpet social media during the DNC convention.

But on the upside, I just saw a great ad on YouTube with Chuck Schumer asking for donations. It is a matching funds drive where they TRIPLE your donation.

[CabalPowered]

6. They paid 7 figures to take over YT during the convention

There were multiple threads on the buy over the weekend.

[calguy]

7. Get used to it

The campaign is about to switch into high gear real soon. Trump has boatloads of cash to spend. So what do you think he will do? He's going to flood the airways with ads. Nothing unexpected here. It's down and dirty time, and you know how down and dirty trump can get.

[Initech]

10. I did check out Trump's channel.

I had no idea he even had a channel, and it seems like most of the videos were posted in the last two days. Seriously, WTF?

[mahina]

8. Let them run. Costs the campaign money but only if you watch it

YouTube ads are super cheap but together $$

Costs them more if you click

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. No, thankfully my Google Music subscription gets me YouTube Premium. So I'm

lucky, I guess.

[captain queeg]

12. All the time. They are embarrassingly flimsy

Let them spend their money.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

13. Yes... maybe it's time for an organized boycott of YouTube over this!!

[Alliepoo]

14. Hells Bells

That orange arsehole is even putting his ads on Collins Key (a couple of crazy teen brothers that do goofy stuff with food). Was watching with the grandkids this morning when that nasty sour looking ugliness popped up between episodes. Thought I was gonna puke.

[Grokenstein]

15. I'm getting them now...and I can't FIND them to shut them off!

Just the audio playing. If I click on a specific video, nothing, but when I return to my subscriptions page another one starts up.

FUCK YOUTUBE

[smirkymonkey]

16. Yep. A lot of them.

[Generic Brad]

17. Yep

Let him waste his money.

[Greywing]

18. I read an article last week that a-hole's campaign had made

a huge ad buy to run during the convention and Youtube was specifically mentioned. Just like he's running across the country holding his teeny rallies ... thinks that is going to bring him attention during this convention.