You're pretty badly off on the timelines there. > They're only now putting ads in videos, They've been showing ads on videos since 2007, before Google even bo

You're pretty badly off on the timelines there. > They're only now putting ads in videos, They've been showing ads on videos since 2007, before Google even bought YouTube. > charging for not-doing-that, They've been offering that for 8 years, about half the lifetime of YouTube.