In the past two years, I've probably recieved dozens of YouTube Red/Premium/etc marketing e-mails, pop-ups, etc. Every one of them highlighted some high quality

In the past two years, I've probably recieved dozens of YouTube Red/Premium/etc marketing e-mails, pop-ups, etc. Every one of them highlighted some high quality, exclusive content, which I can't remember. I don't remember a single marketing message mention that they'll remove ads, and in fact, your post is the first time I heard about it. I doubt I'd pay google for premium YouTube content, but I probably would do so to remove ads. Maybe YourTube's problem is more about messaging than content/price.