Is there any way that I can pay YouTube so that the videos I post do not have ads when people view them for free? I think there is a clear answer to this question for video, and it’s ~$60/month.
unless I am very mistaken, that is the default behavior. youtube won't show any ads on the videos you post unless you put them there. so you need to be eligible for monetization (have videos that people watch, proven by some metric), and you need to enable it, and you need to explicitly post ads on your videos to generate revenue for yourself (and youtube)
I wish! Unfortunately, YouTube shows ads to my paying and prospective customers who just want to watch instructional content I create about things. I’ve seen them see the ads when doing user testing and watching over their shoulder. I’ve never setup or got any sort of monetization related to my videos. It makes sense they would show ads by default though, since the bandwidth and hosting costs them something…. It’s just that I would like an option to pay in order to improve the experience for my users.
or you can use AdBlockers -- I bet the infra people will love it :p
The problem isn’t for me. The problem is that customers who want to learn about my product via my videos are forced to watch ads if they don’t have an adblocker.
Can't you host the videos yourself or use another managed service (such as Cloudflare Stream—no relation)?
Yes of course that is possible. However there is significant value add from YouTube, comments, subscribe, SEO (YouTube videos often come up in google searches), works on mobile devices offline, etc