paid channel promotion

Hey y'all I wanted to ask in this group if y'all pay these paid promotions to run your channel on there website I had one guy interested with me wanting me to do a podcast but the catch is I had to pay some money and the video would go live and google would give me exposure it sounded to good to...

So yeah, I have been "in the business" for quite some years, and have had over 3 channels now. I however haven't ever hit the 1000 subs mark. I recently picked up my last youtube channel with the 32 subs it had back then, and am using it to post new content and hopefully grow it. As I see...