Epic Games has stopped plugging Fortnite pre-roll ads on YouTube videos following a discovery that ads were playing on videos predators used to exploit children.
“We have paused all pre-roll advertising,” an Epic Games spokesperson told The Verge. “Through our advertising agency, we have reached out to Google/YouTube to determine actions they’ll take to eliminate this type of content from their service.”
Pre-roll ads, which play before a video starts, for companies like Grammarly and Google Chromebooks played on some of the videos that creator Matt Watson found for his original explainer that sparked conversation. Other companies whose ads were featured on videos, which starred children and whose comments sections were full of comments…
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