It's because you get better ad rates on Youtube than if you made a website and posted the information there. Additionally, the current state of the web (Google

It's because you get better ad rates on Youtube than if you made a website and posted the information there. Additionally, the current state of the web (Google only exposing SEO blogspam, AI overviews making it so ~60% of searches end without the user clicking on a site) pushes people further and further away from making websites.