Sponsored sections are baked into video and very easy to skip.
Unlike platform ads which disable video control while the ad is playing.
By that metric, every streaming platform has ads since they serve movies with product placement.
No idea if this is right but based on AI summary google results, annual operating costs for Youtube is ~$3B-5B and Netflix is ~$25B-30B. While YT probably spends most on CDN/bandwidth, they have a mostly free content cost which is by far Netflix's largest expense
Cannot find any factual basis for the claim that YTP is the most expensive streaming app. Is this the case in some non-US market?