FWIW, I don’t believe the number of ad-breaks is determined by the YouTuber and instead, is determined by the algorithm. What drives the algorithm? How the song is monitized.
What’s weird with Beato’s videos - and I agree, they’re sometimes very ad-heavy - he almost never receives ANY ad revenue for his vids, instead making money from his tutorial materials he sells on the side.
As soon has he plays more than a bar or two of copyrighted music, the copyright hawks claim his video, stripping every single penny of ad revenue from it for themselves. And yet, YouTube still puts ad in heavy rotation on his channel.
He’s told people more than once to use ad-block software because he’s not making a dime from it.
I’ve seen youtube ads on some of my own uploads in the past that don’t even have copyright claims and I certainly don’t see any of that money.
I know at one point youtube was looking at adding a premium service where you could download content from youtube. Again if they are doing that, I am not seeing a penny of it.