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Ads shown before YouTube ISIS video

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Anheuser-Busch probably doesn't want folks to associate Bud Light with beheadings any more than Procter & Gamble is trying to market its soaps and cleaners to people packing to join an insurgency. But both companies are in "damage control" after ads for their products ran with ISIS videos on YouTube, reports Marketplace.
 
With more than 300 hours of content loaded to the site each minute, YouTube relies on algorithms to match products to the people watching any given video.
 
Considering the amount of data processed, the products-to-people matches are pretty accurate. Sometimes, however, the "fail" is, as it's been said, epic.

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