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> The main source of income for youtube isn't ads. YouTube revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium subscriptions. Lol. You can open Alphabet's 10-Q

> The main source of income for youtube isn't ads. YouTube revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium subscriptions. Lol. You can open Alphabet's 10-Q or 10-K and find out in a matter of seconds how untrue this is. Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads <suppressed smile>" by Zuckerberg.

LewisVerstappen 5y ago
> Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads <suppressed smile>" by Zuckerberg. Why? Zuckerberg wasn’t lying when he said Facebook makes their money from ads though.
- HWR_14 5y ago
  Indeed. IIRC, there were quite a few issues with his testimony obfuscating things. But he was pretty blunt about the business model. I thought the point of the clip was how out of touch the Senator asking was.
- yunohn 5y ago
  Yes, and H8crilA is saying YouTube also exists off ads revenue.
- paxys 5y ago
  Exactly. Zuckerberg wasn't even smiling when he said that, just incredulous that the US Senator who has summoned him to DC and is questioning him in front of millions of Americans doesn't know the first thing about what he is saying.
RealityVoid 5y ago
You seem to ignore that the incredibly annoying ads are a prime reason people even buy premium in the first place.
ZephyrBlu 5y ago
They're referring to creators, not the platform. For creators it's absolutely true that merch brings in more revenue than ads, and I assume by premium subscriptions they mean channel membership. I also assume English isn't the author's native language because there are some small grammatical and structural quirks like this platform vs creators thing. It's very readable though!
- rryan 5y ago
  That makes no sense. Why is "YouTube Premium" capitalized?
  - ZephyrBlu 5y ago
    YouTube Premium is an actual product, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators which I why I assumed they meant channel membership. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium
    - dragonwriter 5y ago
      > but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators I’ve heard that per viewer it brings in a lot more than the per viewer ads revenue from non-Premium viewers. Not sure what the typical viewer numbers for each are; probably depends on the channel a lot.
    - dmix 5y ago
      Offtopic but I bought YouTube Premium a few months ago and it's 100% worth the money. YouTube ads are aggressive and it turns out I used YouTube all the time. I didn't really notice until I started paying for it how much time I spent having to wait for ads to end or skipping them. Now I get angry every time I end up in YouTube via incognito when using social media and an ad plays.
      - jthrowsitaway 5y ago
        uBlock origin will fix this (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox.)
        ddaalluu2 5y ago
        But not on the TV or mobile. Firefox ok, but it's also browser only. Youtube Music is quite useful as a radio player. Start with one song you like and it continues with similar songs. Key is it's just music and you have a list of albums of that band/singer/etc. Overall it's good enough but not really great. Vanced was great for that. Also installed both apps on my mom's phone so she would not be irritated by ads. Being 87 she clicks on ads more often than I'd like. She even bought useless things from Facebook ads. She knows that I'll be angry so she lies about it. I have to protect her from the internet. She's a different generation. For instance I tell her about something being true and she won't believe me until she reads on the internet about it, because she grew up with "what you read is true". She's also exposed to lots of radical propaganda on Facebook. It's so bad that she quite often shares right wing videos and I have to step in and have discussions with her about what she's doing. But she isn't right wing at all. She hates all forms of nationalism or racism. Long story short. Adblocking isn't available for all platforms. But it's required for multiple reasons. Google knows and doesn't allow adblockers to be installed on mobile Chrome, because if they did their ad revenue would take a big hit.

LewisVerstappen 5y ago

> Reminds me of the famous "Senator, we run ads <suppressed smile>" by Zuckerberg. Why? Zuckerberg wasn’t lying when he said Facebook makes their money from ads though.

HWR_14 5y ago
Indeed. IIRC, there were quite a few issues with his testimony obfuscating things. But he was pretty blunt about the business model. I thought the point of the clip was how out of touch the Senator asking was.
yunohn 5y ago
Yes, and H8crilA is saying YouTube also exists off ads revenue.
paxys 5y ago
Exactly. Zuckerberg wasn't even smiling when he said that, just incredulous that the US Senator who has summoned him to DC and is questioning him in front of millions of Americans doesn't know the first thing about what he is saying.

RealityVoid 5y ago

You seem to ignore that the incredibly annoying ads are a prime reason people even buy premium in the first place.

ZephyrBlu 5y ago

They're referring to creators, not the platform. For creators it's absolutely true that merch brings in more revenue than ads, and I assume by premium subscriptions they mean channel membership. I also assume English isn't the author's native language because there are some small grammatical and structural quirks like this platform vs creators thing. It's very readable though!

rryan 5y ago
That makes no sense. Why is "YouTube Premium" capitalized?
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  YouTube Premium is an actual product, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators which I why I assumed they meant channel membership. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > but as far as I'm aware it doesn't generate much revenue for creators I’ve heard that per viewer it brings in a lot more than the per viewer ads revenue from non-Premium viewers. Not sure what the typical viewer numbers for each are; probably depends on the channel a lot.
  - dmix 5y ago
    Offtopic but I bought YouTube Premium a few months ago and it's 100% worth the money. YouTube ads are aggressive and it turns out I used YouTube all the time. I didn't really notice until I started paying for it how much time I spent having to wait for ads to end or skipping them. Now I get angry every time I end up in YouTube via incognito when using social media and an ad plays.
    - jthrowsitaway 5y ago
      uBlock origin will fix this (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox.)
      - ddaalluu2 5y ago
        But not on the TV or mobile. Firefox ok, but it's also browser only. Youtube Music is quite useful as a radio player. Start with one song you like and it continues with similar songs. Key is it's just music and you have a list of albums of that band/singer/etc. Overall it's good enough but not really great. Vanced was great for that. Also installed both apps on my mom's phone so she would not be irritated by ads. Being 87 she clicks on ads more often than I'd like. She even bought useless things from Facebook ads. She knows that I'll be angry so she lies about it. I have to protect her from the internet. She's a different generation. For instance I tell her about something being true and she won't believe me until she reads on the internet about it, because she grew up with "what you read is true". She's also exposed to lots of radical propaganda on Facebook. It's so bad that she quite often shares right wing videos and I have to step in and have discussions with her about what she's doing. But she isn't right wing at all. She hates all forms of nationalism or racism. Long story short. Adblocking isn't available for all platforms. But it's required for multiple reasons. Google knows and doesn't allow adblockers to be installed on mobile Chrome, because if they did their ad revenue would take a big hit.