I'm pretty sure they're "recommending" it because they're getting paid for it - it's a sponsor segment. After demonetization became common YouTubers looked for other sources of revenue and there are rather few companies that try to contact them directly for ads, so you see them appear over and over again.
Yeah it's diffidently not being recommended, it is being advertised. I wonder how many money they have spend. Every freaking channel mention them at some point.
You start to wonder where their money is coming from - their retail prices are already cheap, the discounts the influencers offer make it basically free. How's that sustainable?
But do they even have to pay much to youtubers for those ads? If you get 50k to 100k views per video then you'll likely make around the range of $50-$150 for the video. Paying the youtuber $50-$100 per video would already have a significant impact on their income, so they'd probably consider it. That would be 50k-100k people who will see the ad, because adblock can't block it.
If somebody is getting $50-$150 per video, they're probably doing it for the passion of making videos, not for the income, and they probably have another source of income that dwarfs what they're getting from youtube.
Not necessarily. If they put up a video every day then that's $1500 a month minimum. That's decent income in most countries, even in many EU ones. Now imagine if sponsor segments doubled that for you - now it's $3000 a month, which is already on the lower end of decent even in the richest countries.
Yesterday I saw a discount with an extremely cheap 3-year plan (under 30$ and no data limit, iirc). The price didn't offer confidence that the service would be available for all three years.
