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YouTube premium pricing is ridiculous. $14 a month for android and $19 a month for iOS? Get out of here How much could they possibly make from ads in a given m

YouTube premium pricing is ridiculous. $14 a month for android and $19 a month for iOS? Get out of here How much could they possibly make from ads in a given month off a single user. Best case scenario with a user that watches YouTube like 4 hours a day 6 days a week and clicks through once every week. $4? Probably not even that. And yet somehow YouTube premium needs to be almost $230 a year for apple users? I bet they’d make way more with a lower premium tier that just removed ads and had no other premium features for like $20/year. Wouldn’t make as much obviously but I bet they’d do way more volume. I wonder if they have some dipshit mba arguing against something like this because it “makes them seem cheap” or “delegitimizes the platform against more traditional streaming networks” or some nonsense to justify charging Hulu prices for YouTube content

chx 3y ago
Especially when you consider you could VPN to Turkey and get it for 1.15 USD a month, if you do it for five people then it's 0.46 USD per Youtube Premium account. https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/14mwf6h/how_to_enjoy_youtube_premium_for_only_115_per/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/14mwf6h/how_to_enjoy_y...
Tao3300 3y ago
FWIW we would hate them less too.
PeterStuer 3y ago
The family plan is 18€/month for 5 accounts, so about 3.60 pp. I honestly don't know if Premium has any features besides no ads and background play on mobile. There used to be a smidgen of exclusive content, but I think they gave up on that years ago. I do not like Google's business model, nor their politics either. Thing is they do have a defacto monopoly on viable creator VoD. Yes, other services exist, but they are too fragmented to be viable. So, do I perpetuate this situation by giving them sub money? Yes. But pragmatically I'm still not going to have my kids be subjected to ad barrages in the meantime, while rooting for true competition to emerge.

chx 3y ago

Especially when you consider you could VPN to Turkey and get it for 1.15 USD a month, if you do it for five people then it's 0.46 USD per Youtube Premium account. https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/14mwf6h/how_to_enjoy_youtube_premium_for_only_115_per/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/14mwf6h/how_to_enjoy_y...

Tao3300 3y ago

FWIW we would hate them less too.

PeterStuer 3y ago

The family plan is 18€/month for 5 accounts, so about 3.60 pp. I honestly don't know if Premium has any features besides no ads and background play on mobile. There used to be a smidgen of exclusive content, but I think they gave up on that years ago. I do not like Google's business model, nor their politics either. Thing is they do have a defacto monopoly on viable creator VoD. Yes, other services exist, but they are too fragmented to be viable. So, do I perpetuate this situation by giving them sub money? Yes. But pragmatically I'm still not going to have my kids be subjected to ad barrages in the meantime, while rooting for true competition to emerge.