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X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst

www.businessinsider.com X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst

Experts in social media and advertising say an advertiser exodus has left X reliant on smaller, less reputable ad buyers.

X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI "undressing" apps.
The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk's controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.

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Since when do "high quality ads" exist? I mean, the mentioning of "low quality ads" implies that those others might actually exist.
- Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.
- As a current Twitter user I would say there's actually a large void between normal ads and whatever the hell I'm getting served on that platform these days.
- Thai and Japanese TV ads are quite something else
  
  loong man
  
  Hell yes time for another compilation video.
- Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!
  
  JFC, talk about blast from the past. this is all I will hear for the rest of the day now.
- There's low quality ads, shit tier ads and then there's whatever Muskyboi is attracting these days.
- This is the last ad that had me paying full attention when it first came on. It was ran during the football finals season and they made two cuts, one for NRL and one for AFL. https://youtu.be/gbMeKMkE_mk
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/gbMeKMkE_mk
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  And https://youtu.be/GY6uJlI-t14?si=isgeJeI1tZntpV8i
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/GY6uJlI-t14?si=isgeJeI1tZntpV8i
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- Spanish national lottery has amazing ads. Like in the sense that the writing, direction and execution in general is always spot on. I know how it sounds but they are really little works of art.
  
  Not many people in the world watch Spanish TV, so we might have missed the rare exception.
  
  Actually, millions of people watch Spanish TV.
- It's all relative.
- Those YT "in video ads" on Internet Comment Etiquette is about as high quality as you can make it. I wouldn't want to skip Erik selling Nord VPN, Raycon, Nobleberry, or anything else he wants to make an ad for.

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