(regarding the ad question i asked) i just looked it up and from what i've gathered it depends on whether the advertiser is paying for clicks (cpc; cost per click) or paying for views (cpv; cost per view. watching the ad for at least 30 seconds counts as a view for the advertiser.) there's more to it than that and i'm really bad at explaining things and wording things so i may have said things weirdly, but from my understanding you were right in terms of cpc ads. i apologize if none of this made any sense
ah, that sounds accurate, and extraordinarily complicated just as i suspected