This week YouTube hosted Brandcast 2025 in which it revealed how marketers could make better use of the platform to connect with customers.
A few new so-called innovations were announced at the event but one has caught the attention of the internet – Peak Points. This new product makes use of Gemini to detect “the most meaningful, or ‘peak’, moments within YouTube’s popular content to place your brand where audiences are the most engaged”.
Essentially, YouTube will use Gemini and probably the heatmap generated on YouTube videos by people skipping to popular points, to determine where to place advertising. Anybody who has grown up watching terrestrial television where adverts arrive as a way to build suspense will understand how annoying Peak Points could become.
OK let’s all skip to the middle of sponsor segments so the ads cover the sponsor segment. Win win
The ads don’t cover anything though, the video continues where it stopped before the ads.
That’s fine though, because the important parts of the video will not have the interruption then.
You’d be skipping over the sponsor segments anyway