I was really interested in it when it came out on my region and still use it, better than acting like it's up to me to manually decide which content creator I bless with any sort of payment and which I don't.
If ads were the only reason, I know how to evade them in just about every platform I use.
I wouldn't mind it if it weren't so insane on price. Does YouTube really get $168 of revenue per year from ad-supported users? Doubt it.
I don't, running YouTube is expensive, and Google became a trillion dollar company mainly from ad revenue, it has to be making bank for them to not have killed YouTube
YouTube was intentionally run at a loss for years in order to quell potential competition and set up a monopoly. Now, they got all the content on their platform and that won't change for a while, so they can do whatever they want. It was a marketing strategy, not magnanimity.
A similar strategy was led by HP. They make no money from printers, but once you buy one, you are very likely to also buy their ink which is sold with a ridiculous profit margin, so that the loss of revenue from printers doesn't matter in the slightest. It's called "loss leading".
I've had YouTube Music since it was Google Play Music. So I haven't had ads in about a decade or so.
Totally 0%
I honestly think that YouTube has to embrace something similar to what Twitch does with subscriptions to specific content creators where they get around 50% of the subscription cost. I personally don't value YouTube Premium because I know nothing goes to content creators except for the fact that it covers ad revenue income without showing ads.
I personally don't value YouTube Premium because I know nothing goes to content creators except for the fact that it covers ad revenue income without showing ads.
Uh. Half of the cost of premium gets distributed to the creators you watch, and it's a non-insignificant amount of money.
I used to have it as part of a family plan until Google decided that I couldn't be a part of the family plan because I didn't live with the account owner, so I thought I would just sign up for it. So I did for quite some time until I realized that I could do the same thing without paying a dime and that's what I'm doing now. This was back when it was $9.99 or something like that. I don't know how much it cost now.
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