Anyone else think YouTube Premium is pretty reasonably priced? You are getting a music streaming service on top of ad free YouTube. I've been very happy with it since subscribing.
Aside from pricing - the ad free experience is stretch. Basically all youtubers I used to watch push commercials inside their videos, have additional sponsors, some add Patronite support and so on. So I'm paying but still get ads served heavily. Not to mention abusing idiotic "shorts" that give them better income.
So instead of justifying Premium I started unsubbing even those that I respected, but currently became plain ad space. Also archived manually most videos that I valued in the past that are actual knowledge/art and tend to just try to ignore youtube. It's not a complete detox (due to lots of embedded videos on third party sites) but so far feels like a relief.
Absolutely not. I only watch a handful of videos a month and don't care about their music streaming. $12/month is an absolute ripoff. No way my handful of ad views produces more than $1, MAYBE $2.
That's you, and power to you.
I know of cafes that use YT for music. They make their own playlists of nice video clips, and they display them inside theirs shops while they play the song. So.. good music, nice video clips, and all that for $12. At this point I will have to admit that they are cheating as business (cafes/restos) that play music have a difference (and more expensive) setup that they have to follow for licensing/playing music.
Btw, this could be illegal in some countries. Streaming is for private use, and to play music in the shop the license for public playing could be required.
It costs more than Netflix in the UK, and you still get some ads (sponsors in many videos).
(If there'd been a £6.99 Premium Lite option, I'd probably have paid. But then again, I've been on a subscription-cancelling spree this year, first things to go when inflation/energy prices really started to hurt)
Yeah but I watch more YouTube than I do Netflix, it adds more value to my life. I don't know why people say this like Netflix should automatically be allowed to charge more than YouTube because it's making traditional shows.
Not really. I don't want the music streaming service, so they're forcing me to buy something I don't want. Also, it's not like videos have no ads with premium.
Not really, they're just not able to sell you the ad free product on it's own for less money than the bundle.
But enough people bring it up that I honestly think the product page should let you buy YT Premium without YT Music for the same price just so people get it...
> YouTube generated $29.2 billion revenue in 2022. Over 2.5 billion people access YouTube once a month. YouTube Premium reached 80 million subscribers in 2022.
> you theoretically can create $2 per month Premium and still have big profits.
That doesn't follow. You're making three unfounded assumptions there:
- That YouTube is currently making big profits.
- That every user is the same value
- That ever user pays the same amount for a YT Premium subscriptions.
But in reality we only know YT's revenue, not their profit (or even whether it's a profit rather than a loss). We know for a fact that not every user is of the same value; the ad revenue from the average user in say US is far higher than that of the average user in Turkey. And in what is almost certainly not a coincidence, the price of YT Premium in the US is far higher than for those in Turkey.
It's priced well, but does not deliver on its promises. You still get tons of ads even with premium. In-video sponsor blocks are still ads, should be clearly marked so, and optionally skipped. As such I don't see why I would pay for premium when I still have to install an extension on top of that.
(I can see it being worth for music, but I don't use youtube for that.)
It is exorbitantly priced. I would pay 2$/mo for it, maybe 3. Additionally, I have zero trust that "ad-free" will continue to hold. Too many services have promised ad-free and then reneged on it. Lastly, music streaming is the last thing I want, I just put my music on my music player (my phone right now).
The price would only make sense to me, personally, in a world where it's the one and only streaming subscription a person could ever want. As it is, it feels like an $80-$100 per year service.
Yeah, it's a decent value for money. I wish Google would also allow paid customers a bit more customization of the websites (e.g. removing Shorts and all that crap) and enforced no sponsors inside videos for Premium subscribers.
If it is sponsored Ads, then I presumre that parented comments thinks the price is not good enough to actually provide, as it does not provide enough money for creators to not have sponsored ads as well.
