Advertising Analysis
Most people who use YouTube have not purchased YouTube Premium or have an AdBlocker that removes advertisements on their videos. This means that the average user has to sit through ads at the beginning of the videos they stream and most likely during the videos they stream as well. There is a multitude of these ads, but it feels like I'm only receiving "Mike Bloomberg for President" advertisements on every video I watch. And of course, many of these advertisements are monetized to where the content creator will receive a small portion of the ads worth with YouTube taking the larger cut - but there is a form of advertisement where no money goes to YouTube. These videos have what is called "Paid Promotion". A video that has a paid promotion is where the content creator will advertise for a company that is not owned by the content creator in return for payment. There are many different ways that these companies will contact the content creators, but its usually...