Now in its 19th year, YouTube AdBlitz 2025 organises Super Bowl ads by genre, allowing viewers to explore creative approaches from top brands in one place. With an increasing number of celebrity-led ...

YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

there have been a series of reports of YouTube displaying unskippable ads that last for several hours. Since these ads are being displayed to users of 'ad blockers' that block YouTube ads ...

A user on Reddit has recently encountered an hour-long unskippable ad on YouTube. The issue could be attributed to an ad blocker, which Google is proactively cracking down on. Google issued a ...

YouTube users have recently raised concerns about encountering unusually long ads—and when we say long ads, we’re talking about some lasting three hours or more. Screenshots shared on Reddit show ads ...

In response, Google has intensified its crackdown on such freeloaders, particularly in 2025, by introducing extreme deterrents like unskippable ads lasting several hours. In 2024, YouTube had ...

Without an ad blocker, you have two options: accept the existent of both skippable and unskippable ads before and during YouTube videos, or pay for YouTube Premium which costs $13.99 per month.

Users with ad blockers are reporting seeing hourslong unskippable ads ... failing to actually block the ad. They say refreshing the page fixes the problem. YouTube is certainly happy to ...

YouTube clarified that unskippable ads are typically capped at 15 seconds on mobile and up to 60 seconds on TV, denying any intentional serving of excessively long ads. The company suggested that such ...

However, many of our poll takers have reported seeing extremely long unskippable ads, even without an ad blocker, and they believe Google’s response downplays the real issue. YouTube has ...

Google is taking stronger action against YouTube users who rely on ad blockers. The company has introduced a new strategy: extremely long, unskippable ... disable their ad blocker or subscribe ...