Honestly, the only reason I watch the EEVBlog videos on You Tube is because that's where they're hosted.
If they were hosted elsewhere, I'd watch them there.
I have a You Tube account, but have never uploaded anything to it. Instead I have used Vimeo, less restrictions, it was free (unless I wanted more space or longer video uploads).
I recently added adblock to my Chrome browser, why? Because I HATE all of the freaking commercials that come up on You Tube now. When it was just the banner at the bottom of a video, I could click on to close, that was fine. but now there's ads between videos, some you can't skip, some are 30+ minutes long (though, those ones you can skip), but still if, I put on a playlist and walk away because I'm listening to the stream, more than watching it, I now have to sit through those ads listening to them.
In short, if the videos started being hosted elsewhere, I'd gladly watch there.