I would imagine lots of advertisers with large budgets have told YouTube that they don't want their ads to appear in/alongside Brand's content, and that list will only get longer each day.
From their perspective, I guess it's simpler to just stop all ads for now.
I have similar issues, on a...
YouTube have suspended monetisation on his channel today.
"Industry experts have estimated Brand probably makes between £2,000 to £4,000 per video, which,, based on five videos a week, could produce close to £1m a year"
Sounds very much like the Brand show I saw down in Bournemouth. He started off by just wandering straight into the crowd to the back of the theatre, causing all sorts of hassles for the bloke that had to keep the mic wire sorted out.
Didn't have much of an opinion on him as I'd not seen/heard much of his stuff but went to see him do stand-up down in Bournemouth and he was absolutely superb and kept a large theatre of people thoroughly entertained for over 2 hours.
Big fan of his as a result. His radio show (or podcast of)...