What determines whether or not an ad appears on a YouTube video? Is it random chance, or is there an algorithm?

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What determines whether or not an ad appears on a YouTube video? Is it random chance, or is there an algorithm?

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Yes, there’s algorithms behind it all, but in the case of ads not showing at all, they’re either cases where the creator didn’t monetize it, or YouTube de-monetized it so ads can’t be run.
That’s usually based on topics or keywords in the video, which is algorithmic as well.

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