Joe Fier explains why in-stream ads on public videos can tank your channel's organic metrics because viewers skip them. The fix: run in-stream ads on unlisted videos instead so the ad watch-time doesn't count against your stats.
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I talk about this in the tutorial and anytime I talk about in feed ads. Because if you talk to somebody else, like Sean or other people who do organic YouTube and they'll tell you that YouTube ads could potentially harm your organic growth if you do it the wrong way. Yeah, that makes sense. The wrong way is in stream ads. You don't want to run those to public videos. Those are unlisted. The reason for that is a lot of people can click skip. So some of the. And not all, but some of the people who talk about organic growth, they don't understand the difference between in stream and in feed, which is fine because I know that they're more inorganic. They're not on the ad side, but. But so they say, like, hey, don't run the YouTube ads well. Or like to a public video. If you use an unlisted video, it won't affect the channel stats. So what you would do is with an in stream ad, you run it as unlisted video and then it's not gonna affect the watch time stats of your overall channel. If you run that as an unlisted video. That's good. Okay, that's a huge distinction right there.