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It seems that every other ad on youtube is a marine one for me. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me.

Well, are you speaking about the U.S.?
Here, noticed nothing special. I used to have a few recruitment ads on YouTube quite a while ago. Meant nothing special, just ads rotation, as far as I can tell.

U.S.

They've been laying soldiers and even high ranking officers off. I don't think there's a big push for more recruits, just maintaining.

...YouTube has ads?

...

In the beginning of the videos.

 MWHistorian wrote:
They've been laying soldiers and even high ranking officers off. I don't think there's a big push for more recruits, just maintaining.

Ehh, it's kinda the way the military runs... I had plenty of NCOs who "survived" the Clinton years (or they signed up in the Clinton years) and the way the DoD has sort of "always" done things is during a period of drawn down forces, they'll take recruits and initial term people all day long... they WANT a ton of "fresh meat" what they ultimately want is to find those 1 in a 1000 soldiers/marines, etc who can stand above their peers to keep.


My guess is, @OP, you or someone on using your computer/accounts, etc. went to some marine or other military related site, and picked up the tracking cookies or whatever, so now the analytics are sending you more recruitment videos, because clearly you are interested in joining (that last bit was a bit of sarcasm... I've no idea if you're actually interested in the military or not )

I'm using my college internet now, so that may be it.

Internet Ads are usually tailored to the user.

Been watching any military videos lately? Even a single data point can trigger certain ads.

 Sigvatr wrote:
...YouTube has ads?

Ah, a fellow ad-block user I see?

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
...YouTube has ads?

Ah, a fellow ad-block user I see?

Yarrrrrr. I don't want pesky ads ruining my videos.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
...YouTube has ads?

Ah, a fellow ad-block user I see?

Yarrrrrr. I don't want pesky ads ruining my videos.

You can always recognise a fellow Blocker by our smug self satisfied feigned ignorance whenever someone complains about internet ads.

Meh, I prefer directly donating to the people I watch videos of via PayPal.

Bet I've spent more than people watching ads

 Grey Templar wrote:
Internet Ads are usually tailored to the user.

Been watching any military videos lately? Even a single data point can trigger certain ads.

Well I did look as some airsoft stuff lately... I guess that could be it.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Internet Ads are usually tailored to the user.

Been watching any military videos lately? Even a single data point can trigger certain ads.

Is that why I get ads for Depends and "You too can graduate elementary school!" ?

Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

 Sigvatr wrote:

Bet I've spent more than people watching ads

You're underestimating the value of mind share and your time.

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

With roughly 1% of American population enlisting during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan I would say NOPE. War hungry civilians like their couches and tv. Not hard physical work, sacrifice ...or getting torn to pieces by random chance and spending their last moments in blinding pain and blood. They like using the achievements of others to prop themselves up.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

With roughly 1% of American population enlisting during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan I would say NOPE. War hungry civilians like their couches and tv. Not hard physical work, sacrifice ...or getting torn to pieces by random chance and spending their last moments in blinding pain and blood. They like using the achievements of others to prop themselves up.

ROLL OVER!! ROLL OVER!! ROLL OVER!!

Do not remind me about the H.E.A.T. trainer in Kuwait. SRSLY that sucked.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

With roughly 1% of American population enlisting during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan I would say NOPE. War hungry civilians like their couches and tv. Not hard physical work, sacrifice ...or getting torn to pieces by random chance and spending their last moments in blinding pain and blood. They like using the achievements of others to prop themselves up.

Like the phony SEAL guys Don Shipley exposes. Some Not safe for work language on this one as he outs a douche that stole a picture of one of Don's buddies that got killed and superimposed his face onto it:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qokNgLXGPuM

 daedalus wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

Bet I've spent more than people watching ads

You're underestimating the value of mind share and your time.

Saving 30+ seconds each time I'd have to watch an ad kinda speaks in favor of saving time

Relapse wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

With roughly 1% of American population enlisting during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan I would say NOPE. War hungry civilians like their couches and tv. Not hard physical work, sacrifice ...or getting torn to pieces by random chance and spending their last moments in blinding pain and blood. They like using the achievements of others to prop themselves up.

Like the phony SEAL guys Don Shipley exposes. Some Not safe for work language on this one as he outs a douche that stole a picture of one of Don's buddies that got killed and superimposed his face onto it:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qokNgLXGPuM

I do like when the stolen valors guy out dbags that like to pretend to have served. truly epic to watch them back pedal.

redleger wrote:

Relapse wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
Probably want to piggyback off all this ISIS news. When war-hungry civilians who otherwise would not join hear about the opportunity to kill people, they just need a slight nudge to make the decision to enlist.

Apparently the Recruiting and Training division is not wholly responsible for where the ads end up. A lot of it is done by professional marketing firms.

With roughly 1% of American population enlisting during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan I would say NOPE. War hungry civilians like their couches and tv. Not hard physical work, sacrifice ...or getting torn to pieces by random chance and spending their last moments in blinding pain and blood. They like using the achievements of others to prop themselves up.

Like the phony SEAL guys Don Shipley exposes. Some Not safe for work language on this one as he outs a douche that stole a picture of one of Don's buddies that got killed and superimposed his face onto it:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qokNgLXGPuM

I do like when the stolen valors guy out dbags that like to pretend to have served. truly epic to watch them back pedal.

There was a guy that had a gaming website about 15 years back that had as part of his bio on it that he was a Vietnam era SEAL. He would come onto a site I used to go to called the Ultimate GW website and talk about his wartime heroics to the teenagers and anyone else gullible enough to believe him. He had a son that would back up his bs stories and both would get pissed if anyone called them on it. Finally someone got in touch with Captain Larry Bailey( The Don Shipley of the day, who would quite often take his SEAL buddies to go pay a personal call on fakes), and let him know about this guy.
Bailey cut loose and proved that this guy was no SEAL, and had quite a public corrispondence with father and son throughout the debunking.
Suddenly claims of being a SEAL disappeared from this guy's website and his name appeared on the "Fake SEAL wall of shame", a website that listed names and offences of these guys.
All in all, a joy to witness.