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This is cable tv all over again. Pretty soon there will be ads on paid YouTube subscriptions too, mark my words.
by omginternets 5y ago
This is cable tv all over again. Pretty soon there will be ads on paid YouTube subscriptions too, mark my words.
- emsy 5y agoThere are: “now for a quick word about this week’s sponsor”
- folkrav 5y agoI mean, that's on content creators doing live reads, and YT has nothing to do with it.
- emsy 5y agoExactly. So I’m paying 12$ a month, which is more than Netflix and still get ads. That’s actually the reason why I won’t get YT premium.
- endisneigh 5y agoWhy not just stop watching people who do that if you don’t like it?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoBecause we don't have to. We have technology that fixes the problem: sponsor block and ublock origin.
- dspillett 5y agoThere is a difference there in that the sponsorship money all goes to the content creator, rather than to YT who may or may not (at their whim) share a small portion with whoever posted the video (which is far from always the content creator). They also aren't stalking you around everything you do on the Internet in the name of targetting.
- cercatrova 5y agoSponsorBlock fixes this
- folkrav 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised, but it's also the moment I stop paying for YT Premium.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoNo doubt. YouTube premium customers are just providing disposable income data to advertisers. They've segmented the market, it's only a matter of time before some manager looks at how much more valuable the premium group is and decides to show ads to them too because doing otherwise is leaving money on the table.