[dkarras]

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)

[williamstein]

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.