Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-25771421-20170502184954/@comment-20644-20170502194337

Hey Tylobic. We use the champion videos from the official League of Legends YouTube account, so if you let us know which ones are out of date we can either replace it (if there is a new version) or potentially remove it. We don't want outdated information in videos either.

So far we haven't seen any data pointing towards video deterring people from the site. Which isn't to say that no one is seeing a performance issue, just that it's not particularly widespread. In fact, the number of people watching videos has been very positive, even exceeding our initial expectations.

We're using these videos and pre-roll ads that play in front of them in order to reduce the number of ads on the site. The ad clutter on the page is the major issue behind performance problems that some visitors encounter. We had to add video first to make sure that people were watching them enough to where we could start getting rid of the ads that slow down the site, and the ad testing that will begin this month are our biggest step towards doing that. Pages that have featured wiki videos will have even fewer ads than pages without video.

We anticipate that that in the next couple of months, the reduced ad experience will go live. This will improve page performance across the entire site, and on every League of Legends page.