The way I see it is, YouTube is a free video hosting site. Just so long as you can upload a videos to YouTube you have saved money by not having to host your own video server, web page hosting, all the mumbo jumbo. So anything else is extra. There's an excellent post by @papa-pepper (great man, lovely father figure to all) where he break down this idea and absolutely hack the money-game using Steemit. (post is here! https://steemit.com/youtube/@papa-pepper/how-to-monetize-your-youtube-videos-an-excellent-new-way)