Why are ads suddenly appearing on my YouTube videos?

Totally agree. Minimal functionality. I’m not optimistic about a solution—this is Google’s doing entirely and I guess it’s a miracle we were able to use a third-party app like PowerPoint as long as we did. I long ago started downloading YouTube videos through various free apps, which permitted me to edit them precisely through the trim function. But no question it’s easier to just use the URL. But clearly those days are now gone. Kind of amazing that it took Google this long to figure out they were missing eyeballs for their ads via PowerPoint users.

Yes me too exact same situation all political ads! For years I never had this issue with ads popping and I also have Youtube premium but it doesn't matter with the videos embedded on youtube.

Only solution I’ve found is to use Chrome browser (which knows you have a youtube premium subscription) and access powerpoint through office.com. But first you’ll need to upload the file to ONeDrive (just to make things more complicated!!). And as many previous posters have noted, your ability to control powerpoint is very limited, particularly in advancing to the next slide after an embedded video.

It’s all Google’s fault, so I’m afraid complaining to Microsoft will not solve the problem.

Hi John,

So sorry to hear your experiencing the same issues. Our church cancelled the premium subscription to google and we are purchasing music from worshiphouse media a much more expensive option but until there is a resolution that's our solution for now.

That's looking like the only answer to all this.

The funny thing is, I haven't had ads on YouTube for years since I installed Google AdBlock. I am not at all used to the gawdawful interruption of ads, so when they happen it's like a slap in the face.

Question: Do you do the trimming in YouTube? Or have you got a video editor?