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by ugexe 2012 days ago
Rare? Half the videos I watch have those ads for Raid Shadow Legends, some random vpn, and a bunch of others that are totally disconnected from the general topics discussed on the channel containing the ad
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That's AdSense, described here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/72857?hl=en

A brand deal occura when a video creator, or her management team, separately signs a contract with an advertiser. The advertisers in AdSense ads are chosen automatically by YouTube, not by the video creator. These ads interrupt the normal flow of the video. The advertising content from the brand deal is integrated directly into the main body of the video, usually by the video creator herself talking about the products. These have to be disclosed to the viewer (U.S. FTC regulations).

A single video can have both a brand deal and AdSense ads.

It's always either Raid Shadow Legends (scam), NordVPN (dubious), or some random gacha game (dubious scam).