Should I Use YouTube's Auto placement Ads or do my own?
Hey there everybody! So this is the first successful video that I have had, All my other videos were around 500-1200 views, this one obviously broke 50,000 which I am very excited about! The question I have is with this video, YouTube automatically put in 50 add placements, Now the video is two hours 45 minutes long just for context and the ads are anywhere between 3 to eight minutes apart. My average view duration of all these views is 36 minutes. I didn't know where to edit the ad placements until today, when I uploaded my next video which is two hours long, I do Minecraft 100 days content by the way.
I personally feel like the ad placements worked, because my AVD, views, and watch time reflect something very positive, But I wanted to hear from some other people that may have more experience than what I do. Thanks a lot!
EDIT: I want to be clear, my RPM is floating around $13, so I am VERY happy with that! I am NOT looking to increase that by plowing more ads into the video, I was thinking maybe there are too many ads? I just got monetized April 27, and this was the first video uploaded and monetized AND my first semi 'viral' video 😄
EDIT 2: People seem to be asking about the ages of my viewers, here is the break down straight from my analytics:
13–17 years 19.2%
18–24 years 26.5%
25–34 years 39.2%
35–44 years 11.9%
45–54 years 2.8%
