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YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube is dropping individual ad controls in YouTube Studio for pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads on new videos, according to a support document from the company<\/a> bylined by \u201cRob,\u201d a member of the YouTube team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Instead, creators will only be able to choose between having ads before or after a video on or off. If you choose to have those ads on, YouTube will choose whether to show pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, or non-skippable ads \u201cwhen appropriate,\u201d per a notice on another support document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n YouTube argues that this won\u2019t be too big of a deal. \u201cMost creators shouldn\u2019t notice a change as they already have many of these ad formats turned on by default,\u201d Rob said. \u201cIn the last year, for long-form videos that were enabled for monetization at time of publishing, more than 90 percent of videos had pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads turned on.\u201d But for creators who want to have finer control over the types of ads their viewers might see, this upcoming change could come as a disappointment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n YouTube is also introducing a few new ad options for mid-roll ads. For live streams, creators will be able to see a 60-second countdown before an ad appears, with an option to skip that ad if they don\u2019t want to interrupt the stream. Creators hosting live streams will also be able to delay mid-roll ads for 10 minutes. And in the coming months, with longform videos, YouTube says creators will be able to choose to have automated mid-roll ad breaks and<\/em> manually selected ones; currently, you can only pick from one option or the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n