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Same, huge youtube premium fanboy. YouTube has pretty much replaced Netflix and all the other streaming platforms for me, the content it has is more varied and

Same, huge youtube premium fanboy. YouTube has pretty much replaced Netflix and all the other streaming platforms for me, the content it has is more varied and interesting than yet another generic new IP play. Although it doesn't have classic time-tested movies, so that still requires a subscription somewhere.

joegahona 4y ago
Agreed re: movies, though some have been cropping up there recently, and in really good resolution too. I watched "Glengary Glen Ross" for the first time in my life last weekend on Youtube.
gardenhedge 4y ago
It also doesn't have TV shows like Game of Thrones, House, The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc etc
- ThaDood 4y ago
  It did, but it wasn't a huge success. Cobra Kai was actually a YT OG, it was a gem among a lot of duds.
  - voltaireodactyl 4y ago
    Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on Television* was also an unappreciated stone-cold masterpiece. (The * was because it was on YouTube, not TV)
justapassenger 4y ago
Premium moved me from being a consumer of a content made by big companies (including movies, and most of the shows) towards more independent content creators. I couldn't be more happy about it.
- medion 4y ago
  How do YouTube creators get paid from premium subscribers, is it fractions of a cent per minute watched or something?
  - moneywoes 4y ago
    Yes they get a separate stream from premium
  - charcircuit 4y ago
    There is a pot of money that is split between creators based off relative watch time by people with YouTube premium.
  - jknutson 4y ago
    The Spiffing Brit did a video on YT Premium revenue [0]. My understanding is all the money from all the premium subscribers is thrown into a big pool, of which YouTube takes 45% (or whatever their share is) right off the bat. Then, they take each Premium subscribers’ total watch time across all the channels they watched videos on, and split the remaining money based off of total premium subscriber watch time to each channel. For example, imagine there are only three YouTube channels out there, The Spiffing Brit, Pewdiepie, and MrBeast. There’s $1,000,000 USD remaining in the pot for the month (or pay period, I’m not sure how regular the payouts are) after YouTube takes their cut. In sum total, YT Premium subscribers watched 100,000 minutes of content: 50,000 minutes to MrBeast, 40,000 minutes to Pewdiepie, and 10,000 minutes to The Spiffing Brit. The payouts would be calculated using: revenue_share_ratio = sum_channel_premium_watch_time / sum_global_premium_watch_time channel_premium_payout = global_premium_payout * revenue_share_ratio So: MrBeast: revenue_share_ratio = 0.50 = 50,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 500,000 = 0.50 * 1,000,000 Pewdiepie: revenue_share_ratio = 0.40 = 40,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 400,000 = 0.40 * 1,000,000 The spiffing brit: revenue_share_ratio = 0.10 = 10,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 100,000 = 0.10 * 1,000,000 A bit of a contrived and simplified explanation I’m sure, but as far as I am aware the formulae they use to divvy up the money between creators is as straight forward as it gets. Money out per creator = global money in total * (creator minutes total / global minutes total) [0]: https://youtu.be/NLO5-IyS5pE https://youtu.be/NLO5-IyS5pE

joegahona 4y ago

Agreed re: movies, though some have been cropping up there recently, and in really good resolution too. I watched "Glengary Glen Ross" for the first time in my life last weekend on Youtube.

gardenhedge 4y ago

It also doesn't have TV shows like Game of Thrones, House, The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc etc

ThaDood 4y ago
It did, but it wasn't a huge success. Cobra Kai was actually a YT OG, it was a gem among a lot of duds.
- voltaireodactyl 4y ago
  Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on Television* was also an unappreciated stone-cold masterpiece. (The * was because it was on YouTube, not TV)

justapassenger 4y ago

Premium moved me from being a consumer of a content made by big companies (including movies, and most of the shows) towards more independent content creators. I couldn't be more happy about it.

medion 4y ago
How do YouTube creators get paid from premium subscribers, is it fractions of a cent per minute watched or something?
- moneywoes 4y ago
  Yes they get a separate stream from premium
- charcircuit 4y ago
  There is a pot of money that is split between creators based off relative watch time by people with YouTube premium.
- jknutson 4y ago
  The Spiffing Brit did a video on YT Premium revenue [0]. My understanding is all the money from all the premium subscribers is thrown into a big pool, of which YouTube takes 45% (or whatever their share is) right off the bat. Then, they take each Premium subscribers’ total watch time across all the channels they watched videos on, and split the remaining money based off of total premium subscriber watch time to each channel. For example, imagine there are only three YouTube channels out there, The Spiffing Brit, Pewdiepie, and MrBeast. There’s $1,000,000 USD remaining in the pot for the month (or pay period, I’m not sure how regular the payouts are) after YouTube takes their cut. In sum total, YT Premium subscribers watched 100,000 minutes of content: 50,000 minutes to MrBeast, 40,000 minutes to Pewdiepie, and 10,000 minutes to The Spiffing Brit. The payouts would be calculated using: revenue_share_ratio = sum_channel_premium_watch_time / sum_global_premium_watch_time channel_premium_payout = global_premium_payout * revenue_share_ratio So: MrBeast: revenue_share_ratio = 0.50 = 50,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 500,000 = 0.50 * 1,000,000 Pewdiepie: revenue_share_ratio = 0.40 = 40,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 400,000 = 0.40 * 1,000,000 The spiffing brit: revenue_share_ratio = 0.10 = 10,000 / 100,000 channel_premium_payout = 100,000 = 0.10 * 1,000,000 A bit of a contrived and simplified explanation I’m sure, but as far as I am aware the formulae they use to divvy up the money between creators is as straight forward as it gets. Money out per creator = global money in total * (creator minutes total / global minutes total) [0]: https://youtu.be/NLO5-IyS5pE https://youtu.be/NLO5-IyS5pE