This isn't exactly true, you tend to work out what the specs and requirements of the content. Some will simply ask for a Ad read, others with mention in it within description. The only true requirement for all sponsored content is it is explicitly labeled as such.

Affiliation isn't sponsorship, this is true , but it does provide the user a mean to share revenue (the % differing on the size).

Twitch Streams are similar too, they'll often just have [ad] in the title or a mention, but not always a ad read unless it was required as per the contract.

Either way, GOG do indeed have a fair amount of adverts/affiliates out there, turn off your ad block and you'll see them a good chunk of the time on youtube depending on you spending/viewing habits, or just keep a look at Wario64 on twitter, they constantly have ad placements with him

the main thing is, though, thatfor a sponsord video the creator gets paid from the sponsor to make that particular video. for almost (if not all) advert, they are not used to pay for a video, but used generally for all videos. specificly on YouTube, the creators have very little choice about which advert to show, as it is handled by the algorythm. the creators then get paid by YouTube (not from the advertised company) depending on views.

Sony plans to add ads for free to play games.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23035875/sony-playstation-microsoft-games-in-game-ads

GoG needs to take it easy. Imho. Maybe dump these 90s forums and wait to CDPR open more studios. I see CDPR branding is gonna play major part how it goes down the line like after 10+ year.

Found him a few months ago. Very indepth and pretty good. But. He doesnt post much and he does do steam stuff as well (never noticed it much until i saw his more recent videos.Probably too much to hope doing mostly stuff available on gog.

That's true. I've even found some people joked around in one of his videos' comment sections where they would tell him that it's only been a month (or something like that), implying that he didn't take his time enough and that it was too early to upload, considering how infrequent his uploading schedule can be lol.