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Funny that everyone here is talking about small creators when an even larger impact will be on large companies using YouTube for content and for product instructionals. If I'm a brand, and I'm reaching you organically through branded content. I do not want another ad play before my content.

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Then those companies should use a paid video CDN service to host their content?

Which now makes me wonder if YouTube will launch a paid hosting offering sometime in the future that guarantees ad-free viewing.

Or they could use Vimeo but the issue is people search for stuff on YouTube.

For example, when I'm interested in a product (synths, videogames, etc) I go directly to YouTube to watch demos and reviews. If it's not there I won't see it.

You would think they would have had time to develop such a program before launching this change.

Imagine the outcry if they launched paid hosting at the same time as they introduced this new change?

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