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To be clear, at $5 per channel that is like saying the channel is half as valuable as Netflix, which is simply not possible. That said, we get it... not everyon

To be clear, at $5 per channel that is like saying the channel is half as valuable as Netflix, which is simply not possible. That said, we get it... not everyone has the scale to race to the bottom like Netflix, but that's the situation just the same.

kllrnohj 7y ago
I watch more LTT than I do Netflix. It's more relevant to my hobbies and, critically, Netflix has lost a ton of content over the years. As a different comparison point, HBO NOW is $15/month and that gets you a very small amount of content.
asdasdasdasdwd 7y ago
I'd pay $5 for access to a number of channels, say 10, and then they distribute their earnings depending on the time I spent on each channel.
- kwizzt 7y ago
  That sounds like the idea behind Brave and BAT. But instead of crypto, you use US dollars, which I guess might work better.
- Mirioron 7y ago
  This is literally what YouTube Red (membership) is.
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    Youtube Red does not distribute each subscriber's payment over the channels they watch. Every viewer-minute is the same, no matter if you spent 10 minutes or 5000 minutes on youtube that month. If you watch a single channel, but only for 50 minutes, that channel gets about five cents.
authoritarian 7y ago
The Netflix library is awful, and continues to get worse and more limited. There are multiple channels I follow that I get more watch time and utility out of than Netflix
- vorticalbox 7y ago
  I feel the problem with Netflix is the se as what happened to cable TV. Rather than paying a fee to Netflix let's just make our own and what you end up with is 100s of providers that have 1 or 2 things you actually want to watch.
bonestamp2 7y ago
> at $5 per channel that is like saying the channel is half as valuable as Netflix, which is simply not possible I can understand how you might look at it that way, but I guess it depends on how you define value. To an investor, no of course not... one youtube channel could never have the same asset value as half of the content on netflix. But, if you're talking about personal value, emotional value, qualitative value, I don't think you can speak in terms of asset value. A super fan doesn't care how much the content cost to produce or the variety of that content, in fact they want more of that one type of content than anything else. Most people have something they are irrational fanatical about and would pay more than $5/month to consume/learn/see everything about that thing. It's about a feeling and that feeling is often worth more than $5/month. That also doesn't include content that has real monetary value to consumers. For example, there is one stock related youtube channel I follow that charges $8/month for access to their private stock picks, analysis, etc. If that helps someone generate a 1% gain in their portfolio growth then that could very well be worth more than the content on netflix to that one consumer since the content on Netflix costs them more than it makes them. So, I think it's fair to say that someone may like one show or creator half as much as they like the content on Netflix even though the asset value could never compare.
cicero 7y ago
I support 4 different individual content creators through Patreon or their own platform at levels between $5 and $10 per month. What they produce is informative, unique, and much more important to me than anything on Netflix, which is just entertainment. Unfortunately, I don't think Patreon is a very good content delivery platform, so I hope Floatplane takes off and has a better UX.

kllrnohj 7y ago

I watch more LTT than I do Netflix. It's more relevant to my hobbies and, critically, Netflix has lost a ton of content over the years. As a different comparison point, HBO NOW is $15/month and that gets you a very small amount of content.

asdasdasdasdwd 7y ago

I'd pay $5 for access to a number of channels, say 10, and then they distribute their earnings depending on the time I spent on each channel.

kwizzt 7y ago
That sounds like the idea behind Brave and BAT. But instead of crypto, you use US dollars, which I guess might work better.
Mirioron 7y ago
This is literally what YouTube Red (membership) is.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  Youtube Red does not distribute each subscriber's payment over the channels they watch. Every viewer-minute is the same, no matter if you spent 10 minutes or 5000 minutes on youtube that month. If you watch a single channel, but only for 50 minutes, that channel gets about five cents.

authoritarian 7y ago

The Netflix library is awful, and continues to get worse and more limited. There are multiple channels I follow that I get more watch time and utility out of than Netflix

vorticalbox 7y ago
I feel the problem with Netflix is the se as what happened to cable TV. Rather than paying a fee to Netflix let's just make our own and what you end up with is 100s of providers that have 1 or 2 things you actually want to watch.

bonestamp2 7y ago

> at $5 per channel that is like saying the channel is half as valuable as Netflix, which is simply not possible I can understand how you might look at it that way, but I guess it depends on how you define value. To an investor, no of course not... one youtube channel could never have the same asset value as half of the content on netflix. But, if you're talking about personal value, emotional value, qualitative value, I don't think you can speak in terms of asset value. A super fan doesn't care how much the content cost to produce or the variety of that content, in fact they want more of that one type of content than anything else. Most people have something they are irrational fanatical about and would pay more than $5/month to consume/learn/see everything about that thing. It's about a feeling and that feeling is often worth more than $5/month. That also doesn't include content that has real monetary value to consumers. For example, there is one stock related youtube channel I follow that charges $8/month for access to their private stock picks, analysis, etc. If that helps someone generate a 1% gain in their portfolio growth then that could very well be worth more than the content on netflix to that one consumer since the content on Netflix costs them more than it makes them. So, I think it's fair to say that someone may like one show or creator half as much as they like the content on Netflix even though the asset value could never compare.

cicero 7y ago

I support 4 different individual content creators through Patreon or their own platform at levels between $5 and $10 per month. What they produce is informative, unique, and much more important to me than anything on Netflix, which is just entertainment. Unfortunately, I don't think Patreon is a very good content delivery platform, so I hope Floatplane takes off and has a better UX.