On the flip side, they provide an inherently unprofitable high-cost service that, unlike virtually all others, actually does compensate its content creators.

Nobody I talk to about this ever seems to have any idea as to where the money is supposed to come from other than not ads and not blocking adblockers and not reducing bandwidth costs. So in other words… Nowhere.

Honestly… Leave YouTube alone. Even with ads, everyone’s getting a pretty good deal out of Google on that one. You don’t want to be sharing or taking on their costs.