There is some very good news for all our viewers who asked us to return to Youtube: We heard you, and we are coming back! And, there is more good news for those Explorers who’ve been waiting for an ad-free version of our channel.
On Friday, April 29th, both will become available. Advertising-free viewing of the full WildEarth Channel for our Explorer members (on our website only, for now) and advertising-supported viewing of full Safaris and Penguin Beach on YouTube (both LIVE and recorded) for everyone.
Towards the end of last year, we had to make the decision to no longer make our full safaris available on YouTube as we did not have a way to properly serve advertising there. This was a difficult but – at that time – necessary decision to make in support of being able to continue to provide free-to-watch options for our broadcasts, which is not possible without revenue from advertising.
Since then, we’ve kept looking for ways to be able to serve advertising on YouTube in such a way that would make it possible to bring it back as a place to watch our Safaris and Penguin Beach. We believe we have found the solution for this by changing the frequency and duration of our ad breaks. Instead of two-and-half minute ad breaks four times per hour (or two times per hour on our own WildEarth apps and website) as we are doing now, we will move to one-minute ad breaks, either ten or five (on our own WildEarth apps and website) times per hour. This change will allow us to match this pattern and frequency on YouTube and thus bring it back as a viewing destination for both LIVE and recorded shows.
YouTube chat will also be available again during the LIVE broadcasts.
For our Explorers, you can now watch all of our channel ad-free! The long-promised version of the live Channel without ads or promos is now available, exclusively for our Explorers, on our website from this Friday. We are working on also making ad-free viewing possible for Explorers on the WildEarth apps, but this is still in its early stages.
If you are not yet an Explorer, and also prefer to watch without advertising, you can find out about this and other benefits, and sign up by clicking here.
Finally, for the time being, we will stop adding more recordings to our apps now that they are available on YouTube again. We are working on a better and faster way of providing these recordings in the WildEarth apps and we will relaunch this once this is completed, but we do not have a timeline for this yet.
WE are very excited to finally provide ad-free viewing to our Explorers and to bring back YouTube as a place where our LIVE broadcasts and recordings can be viewed and hope you will enjoy these options.
Thank you WildEarth for going back to You tube
Thanks so much. working full day (and loadshedding) prevent me from looking sometimses.
thanks again.
Yay!!! Happy to have you guys back in YouTube, I had to go for 6 months not being able to watch you guys… we finally bought an AppleTV just so that I could watch Wild Earth. Are you guys still going to be putting the videos on there?
Thank you WE!! I find it much easier to watch the recorded safari’s on utube as it is easier to scroll forward, you can still see what is happening. Would that be something you can look at to do on the WE website? I unfortunately cannot watch the LIVE drives.
I am so grateful to WE that you make it possible for us to be part of a safari. I cannot tell you how much it means to me, my Kiwi husband will be able to tell you!!
Thank you again!!!
I have just come across this post, some things are well hidden, but I want to say how happy and pleased I am to be able to watch ad-free completely again, no interference from those awful ads{I know you need them} but as a Leopard and Lion explorer I have been asking for this on several occasions, using my username, White Mane, now my dreams have come true. You have made my life so much less stressful, thank you so very much.!!!
I’m one of your explorers who watches through the app on my TV. Hoping that you’ll make this channel ad free for us asap, as the stepped up ad frequency is driving me to distraction.
Hello Peter
I can not view the live fireside chat on here as I get the error message.
Will the recording be available later on youtube as it is easier to access?
Kind Regards
Audrey
I am so exited that you are back on You Tube, such wonderful news. Being in Canada has made it very difficult to watch live!!
BEST decision ever !! I am sure the whole world is celebrating.. xxx
Thank you so much!!
Best decision ever. The whole family -the wife being an explorer-watching again without problems, with all the useful features youtube provides.
Thanks @WE, again and again!
Peter Amazing news! Thank you
Excellent news about going back to U Tube. I really missed being able to back track to get some beautiful shots of the animals I missed. More and more I feel like part of a family on WildEarth safaris. Thanks to EVERYONE who makes all this possible so we feel like we are really there.
Just a thought. While revamping your app. Would you be able to make it possible to ask questions from there too?.
Thank you! Excellent decision 👍
Thank you Peter. Look forward to ad free via the app for explorers eventually (this is easier for smart TV than website). Appreciate that you are responding to requests and finding a way to make it work while still earning ad revenue. Question: do you get revenue from YouTube premium clients?
I’m sooo happy about this! Much easier for me to watch on you tube! On the website you’re not always sure which one is on. Sometimes due to weather it’s a recording. Doesn’t always tell you that. Thank you for the switch back!!
Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, thank you for listening to your viewers! We appreciate your response, and we deeply appreciate WE Safari Live.
I’m crying thank you tears! You’ll never know the level of gratitude I have for having a mobile platform with closed captions and rewind. Replays will be so much easier to access as well. You’ve made my day, my week, my month, my year! Truly, I welcome the ads if it’s helping to generate revenue, but not at anyone’s expense. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Love, ArtPeace311
I am an Explorer but I’m SO Excited that Wild Earth is Back on You Tube! Yay! Thank you Wild Earth! I had a Birthday on the 26th but I’m going to count this news as a “Birthday” Present!
That’s awesome news 😍😍😍
Thank you so much WildEarth I appreciate all you are doing! This is gonna make so many people happy! @wildearth
Such wonderful news!