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Was his expectation that YouTube would cover his hosting, encoding and bandwidth costs for free forever? I wonder what his backup plan is and where will he host the videos now.

(It's still kind of wierd that YouTube doesn't support simply paying for their hosting.)

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I can't speak for him, but yes, I was (foolishly) expecting free YouTube hosting forever without ads because that's what they've always provided. I would think that enough YouTube content makers opt into ads and monetization to cover the costs for those of us that don't want it.

One possibility would be for YouTube to take a larger cut from content creators that do monetize, and the leave the unmonetized content alone.

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