> just look at how quickly advertisers abandoned YouTube following the wall street journal reporting. There's not a chart anywhere I can find that shows advert

> just look at how quickly advertisers abandoned YouTube following the wall street journal reporting. There's not a chart anywhere I can find that shows advertisers reducing their spending on youtube. I "articles" (potentially paid for advertisments) claiming that was happening; but as far as I'm aware, there's no evidence that it made a material difference. https://www.statista.com/statistics/289658/youtube-global-net-advertising-revenues/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/289658/youtube-global-ne... Unfortunately, the data wasn't public during the controversy; so it's not really clear besides anecdotal virtue signaling by companies.