Nebula.tv has some promise. It's not free but it's very cheap and creator-owned. Plus there's no ads.
But it can never be a true replacement for Youtube because it doesn't allow just anyone to upload there.
I hate it when corpos use the "oh we can't lower prices because our staff is getting paid too much"-narrative. What about the CEO who takes half the profits for himself?
It's the workers who create value for a company, they don't take it away by getting paid for their work.
He's also a shill for Coca-Cola and regularly appears in their ads