Thanks, yeah that could be pretty low ball, although some of the youtubers say it provides just coffee money, but Im sure there is more motivation than a cup of coffee to make so many videos and a massive increase in content creators recently to fund themselves abroad could be do-able if the CPM rate is as high as you say. I will try and find some more accurate data.
I agree, there needs to be some additional income generation from fiat into the Hive ecosystem such as through Ad revenue like you mention. I cannot see any video platform in web3 that comes close to anything youtube can offer sadly.
It will be good to see the Ad revenue buybacks on LEO to see if it has any potential for the rest of Hive.