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Does it ever make sense to sell the ability to turn off ads? I imagine the majority of people willing to pay for such an option are power users, the same group
by CamelCaseName 5y ago
Does it ever make sense to sell the ability to turn off ads?
I imagine the majority of people willing to pay for such an option are power users, the same group that likely generates the bulk of advertising revenues and lives in countries with high CPC.
- MatekCopatek 5y agoWell, Youtube Premium does it, so does Hulu, and I'm sure there's other examples.
- Aperocky 5y agoYoutube probably conceded that adblockers does it anyways for powerusers.
- karolist 5y agoThese services show ads in ways that delay you accessing the content you want, banner ads, while annoying do not have that property and are a harder sell
- jedberg 5y agoreddit did it years before all of those.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoThere are ads in YouTube premium? What is the point in it then?
- sralbert 5y agoThere are no ads with premium.
- heartbreak 5y agoThere are not ads in YT Premium. The comment was listing services that sell the ability to hide ads.
- giarc 5y agoDo power users click on ads though?
- ChrisArchitect 5y agoPower users use Tweetdeck, and there are no ads I'm just realizing
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoGoogle tried something like that called Google Contributor back in 2017. You could basically just put money in an account, and instead of advertisers buying ads for whatever site you were on, it just took that same money from you and gave it to that site. Honestly a pretty elegant system, but I can kind of picture why it wouldn't have worked out.