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I don't think that is a fair comparison, because people pay money to watch Game of Thrones, while YouTube is completely free. If it cost $14.99 a month to watch
by GhostVII 8y ago
I don't think that is a fair comparison, because people pay money to watch Game of Thrones, while YouTube is completely free. If it cost $14.99 a month to watch a small set of YouTube channels, their viewership would be far lower (and revenue per viewer would be much higher).
- munk-a 8y ago> If it cost $14.99 a month to watch a small set of YouTube channels Actually this exists, it's called Youtube premium and there are some channels that offer some content exclusive to the platform (as far as I'm aware) I have no idea how it's doing but I also don't have any interest in trying it out, I'd much rather support specific content streams via patreon or other offerings.
- josefresco 8y agoI pay for YouTube Premium.
- na85 8y agoAre there ads?
- ramses0 8y agoNo.
- josefresco 8y agoNot on YouTube (general) but I also pay for YouTube TV and there are loads of ads on their "on demand" content.
- ramses0 8y agoVote with your wallet. I'm about to ditch Pandora b/c they keep advertising pandora super-premium, when I'm already paying for pandora premium. What should that particular anti-pattern be called?
- josefresco 8y agoI already voted with my wallet when I dropped Comcast TV. What I found is that "cutting the cord" is not all unicorns and rainbows. I'm not more reliant on Comcast the ISP, and the speeds I pay for are not the speeds I get. I also dropped Pandora, because I had/have too many streaming music options and couldn't justify it. I don't remember commercials for their ultra premium offering, maybe its because I've been a paid customer for so long?
- awkward 8y agoYeah a fair comparison would be high viewership but freely available stuff like SNL.