I don't know YT's monetization history, but longform video is incredibly easy to monetize because advertisers are willing to pay much more for their content bei

I don't know YT's monetization history, but longform video is incredibly easy to monetize because advertisers are willing to pay much more for their content being there. They get some edge from all the tech they have built for matching ads to users, but it's just fundamentally one of the easiest things to monetize on the internet, so I don't think they would have struggled there.