Why are ads suddenly appearing on my YouTube videos?

Wow, brilliant observation, and one that makes perfect sense. If the owner of a channel isn't trying to monetize it, there won't be any ads shown, as I understand it. It would indeed be nice to know ahead of time which channels fit the bill and which don't, though.

Has anyone noticed whether ALL videos moved from Youtube actually generate ads once they're in Powerpoint? I find that some do and some don't. In my case, maybe 1 in 4 don't. I''m not sure, but I suspect these videos don't generate ads on Youtube in the first place. If I could tailor my selection of videos to those that are ad-free, it would help me a lot.

For example, nothing uploaded to Youtube by the ABC - that's the Australian national (government-funded) broadcaster - seems to generate ads, while videos from commercial channels do. Also, videos of university seminars and other serious meetings, seem to arrive in powerpoint ad-free.

I asked Youtube if they could give me an indication of what type of content creator to look for to avoid ads, but I didn't get a clear answer.

Any thoughts?

Interesting idea!

At one time, you could embed a browser in a PPT slide, which also would have solved this problem, but alas, in the interest of security, this was disabled.

On the other hand, YouTube has made changes that broke PowerPoint's links in the past, but it got worked out and though we had to re-create links to YouTube content, at least they worked again.

With luck, a MS-Google-YouTube tête-a-tête can/will solve the problem again.

Meanwhile, folks, PLEASE do the File | Send Feedback thing and report the problem. We really do want to make MS aware of how many people this is affecting. It matters.

Well, actually using their online Powerpoint app (through office.com AND via Chrome) DOES solve the problem—ads do not appear if you’re a YouTube Premium subscriber. However, the online Powerpoint app is severely limited in its playback controls (you can’t advance to the next slide until the YouTube clip is completed, for example).

The answer we all seem to be looking for is a return to the “good old days” of two weeks ago, when the dedicated Powerpoint app could handle an inserted YouTube clip without running ads and with the flexibility and control of Powerpoint.

I hope your proposal that this is something Microsoft CAN solve is viable.

Microsoft can solve this problem.

As with many apps they can run their browser as a background invisible task.

This would handle the identity and YouTube premier account authentication issues.

All their "3rd party app" powerpoint would need to do is present the video which the browser is fully legally watching in the background.

Many Microsoft apps keep their scale down by running other existing apps in background. So they have precedent for this.

AND it only works for fully paid up Youtube add free subscribers so google should be happy too!

This must be why using online-PowerPoint in a browser doesn't have the problem. So they already have this fix they just need to bring it out of the cloud into desktop powerpoint.