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YouTube would not exist. Not everyone is willing to pay for Premium, but everyone is fine trading their time watching ads for watching everything for free. And
by judge2020 3y ago
YouTube would not exist. Not everyone is willing to pay for Premium, but everyone is fine trading their time watching ads for watching everything for free. And a small group of people, probably under 25%, will actually act on ads and sponsor spots in videos by buying said product. Maybe you don't think YouTube needs to exist if it can't survive off of direct payment, but there are quite literally billions of people who use it and would not be able to pay, which would destroys the reason most creators even choose to use YouTube.
- JohnFen 3y ago> everyone is fine trading their time watching ads for watching everything for free. Given that many people pay actual money in exchange for not seeing ads, I think this blanket statement is clearly false.
- judge2020 3y ago“Many” is not most, Premium only has 80 million subs[0], which is a lot, but not even 10% of of the global user base (they might also be counting family subscriptions as multiple users). 0: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-80-million-lyor-cohen/ https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-8...
- amelius 3y agoThe problem is that consumers will pay twice: once with their time, and then again through the product which is now more expensive because of ads. (And then again with their personal private information, and by buying not the thing they really needed but something that had more advertising budget behind it, ...)
- candiodari 3y agoThe whole point of our current capitalist economy is that "velocity of money" goes up. So, especially if you put it like this, this is a very good thing indeed.
- junofan 3y agoWhat the hell are you talking about? What does this have to do with ads in Gmail?