So AMC has a new series starting next week Low Winter Sun. So I go to their website and there's a preview video to watch, which I click. And it starts with a commercial for some product!

No, I'm not going to watch a commercial so I can watch your commercial. Click.

Not that douchy, most online videos have commercials these days.

Yea. Likewise, Youtube is going to turn into MySpace if they're not careful.

Welcome to 2011.

Really?

However in this case this is a commercial for a product that AMC wants you to "buy" (watch) preceded by a commercial. Do you see the difference?

Yea, search YouTube for any movie trailer or commercial. 99.9% sure you'll get an ad before you can watch the commercial.

No different.

The bottom line is that the studios and networks know that people now view trailers as a form of entertainment, not as an advertisement, so they can put another advert on front of it and get a little revenue.

Oh, this is new?

To the OP who was locked up for the past five years.

Not too new. But it seems like 90% of Youtube videos have commercials before them.

Random tip: If you don't want youtube vids with ads in the middle of them (for longer videos), put "youtuberepeater" in the URL instead of youtube. Obviously the video will be on an infinite loop, but you can shut it off when you're done.

I have never clipped on a promo clip for anything--move or TV show. I had a DVR before most of you ever heard of one-- Replay TV, years before TIVO. I will not watch any commercial before any video on the internet. So this being the first time I've ever clicked on one and found that they wanted me to watch a commercial to watch a commercial I was surprised.

If not watching a commercial with greasy-faced Flo (to date I've maybe seen a total of 18 seconds of her) makes me out of touch--I take that as an honor.

Enjoy not watching any videos on the internet, then.

I'm wondering how the astrofan has watched videos for the past 2 years without ads. I want to know his secret.

This must be the first time you've ever been on the Internet. Hello me friend.

He had ReplayTV. It's a secret.

Ye.... No, no I don't.

So you deliberately went online to watch a commercial but are now pissed because you found two commercials ... Yeah, that is douchy.

I use Ad Muncher and AdBlock (Chrome version). I didn't even know Youtube had ads until someone mentioned it in a video I was watching recently. The only video site that ever successfully hit me with an ad was Hulu, which is why I no longer use Hulu. I'd rather just wait and buy the shows than deal with ads.

Yep, You Tube has not had ads in years because of ad block, I only have them on my phone these days and that is annoying enough. Once saw someone tweet that ads were not working yet on their video and my thought was, don't worry no one watches ads with ad block. Of course I didn't say that.