I didn’t think I suggested otherwise. What I suggested, is that YT doesn’t track ad presentations against content creators. I don’t actually use YT for much, but my understanding is there are three categories of content.
- There is original content that the creator allows YT to present ads “over” and revenue shares with the content creator.
- There are videos that contain their own sponsors, and YT does not monetize them for the creator.
- There are videos that have been demonetized, or the money goes to someone else (like when a music video is posted by someone random, but content ID demonetizes it for the poster, but pays the original artist.)
In any case, the algorithm that YT uses to pay whoever it decides needs paying has NOTHING to do with the amount of ads watched or skipped (when I accidentally infrequently see an ad they usually provide me the chance to skip it after 5s.) The payment seems a simple formula related to popularity (views, likes and subscriptions) not how many ads were watched or not.