An ad was behind home plate for Game 1 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Astros in Los Angeles, and it annoyed many viewers. However, YouTube likely got a good laugh out of it.
The ad was for YouTubeTV, and made it appear to the viewer like the Fox broadcast was a YouTube video, with the red YouTube play button placed in the middle of the screen.
This is excellent advertising — and trolling — by YouTube:
It also led to some excellent trolling on Twitter (I fell for this one).
And it especially led to many fans on Twitter complaining about the distraction:
please raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimised by the YouTube logo behind home plate at the World Series
— whitneymcintosh.bsky.social (@WhitneyM02) October 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/chris_mutter/status/922990018142064642
https://twitter.com/KathrineB/status/922985928037199872
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