Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month - eviltoast

Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.

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    1 year ago

    It means the creators I enjoy actually get paid, whereas with adblock they don’t get any ad revenue.

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      1 year ago

      The creators will see jack shit of that price increase. It’s all going into exec’s pockets. The smart ones all have Patreon or other ways of monetising their content anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry, I don’t see what this has to do with my comment? I was answering the question “What is the point of Youtube Premium anyway?” and said nothing about the price increase.

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          • No ads.
          • Background play.
          • Download videos
          • YouTube Music Premium included

          First one makes it worth it for me. Have you seen how many ads some videos have? It’s insane. Not interested in watching 8+ minutes of ads in a 45 minute video.

          I know there are plugins, alternative apps, etc. to get the same stuff free, but I just prefer paying and never having to worry about any apps or plugins breaking. I just know it’ll be a perfect experience every time.

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            At this point it’s less about cost than it is about doing something against rampant collection of personal data no one should have any business looking at.

            I don’t see any problem if people see value in that subscription and want to pay it. But the fact that you pay and they still siphon the same metric fuck ton of data to monetize for themselves really shouldn’t be okay.

            Now, if they were transparent about this, asked the user for consent, who then agrees, then it’s obviously fair game. But doing this any other way should never be acceptable.

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        1 year ago

        You may be surprised to hear that the revenue split on Premium is the same as the split on Ads: 55% of all Premium money goes directly to creators on a member viewership basis. Alphabet increasing the price of Premium does increase the money going to Youtube corporate, but the revenue structure is fundamentally designed so that creators also receive an equal raise.

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      1 year ago

      Careful. People here got angry at Linus from LMG when he said it’s important for creators to make money to continue paying their massive staff and bring more content.