Personal experience - I buy ads for my videos. The ads link to nothing but the video I'm advertising. Why? To build up brand recognition using the cream of the

Personal experience - I buy ads for my videos. The ads link to nothing but the video I'm advertising. Why? To build up brand recognition using the cream of the crop videos we produce (and in our case subscribers). It's a slow process but it'd be a lot slower without putting up ads. In a purely money sense though I guess I'd rather no adblock using users see the ads I put up, there's no way they'll ever see any future ads as subscribers anyway and I'd lose out in the long run