Accordingly these add appears on your screen for a few seconds and you can skip them by clicking on the skip add option, if provided.The standard In stream advertisements can be at a maximum of 15 seconds which includes 20 seconds for the EMEA and the 60 for skippable videos. A max time of 30 seconds is needed for the non-skippable videos to last.
Just as you watch a variety of adds on your televisions in between news, daily soaps and other programs in the same way various ads that pop in between various videos you watch on the Youtube.com
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