Is using YouTube ads for kpop mvs a bad thing?

A lot of views is just us fans mass streaming anyway so I personally don't have an issue with ads.

None of our faves have completely "organic" views.

I don't care, it sucks that those views are being counted for charts and music shows wins but that's it. I mean it will only be funny when a video gets 30-40M views in first week and after ads run out they can barely crack 100k daily views 😭

Basic marketing. There is nothing wrong

Nothing wrong but it’s inflating views.

people are too defensive over ads

everyone can do it, it's a good promo strategy

but fans need to be chill about bragging about views when 50-80% are ad views

It's good. It can make people who would never check it out at least watch a few seconds and maybe get interested enough to watch the whole thing. It also makes people aware of the comeback, not everyone is following everyone's releases.

you can't please everyone...

some people see an ad and will naturally gravitate towards OMG xyz company is using payola and not "organic views"

some people see an ad and go cool nice promoting their group

if there's no ad some people will go hey they should use ads and promote them more

if there's no ad some people will be like see my favs are all natural no ads required...

can't win either way

As just an ad, for marketing, whatever. It's marketing.

But when an ad view is also counted as an actual view and goes to view counts, which is then used as a measure of success, I think thats dodgy af and is kind of cheating.

Basically adviews should not = actual views. They should be separate.

Saying that, I detest Youtube ads. I hate hate hate being made to watch something I didn't immediately search for or choose myself. So I have Youtube adblocked hard. I never see these "ad" based MV's.