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I'm very much willing to pay for their content, but not in the way of watching ads during the videos.

by efdee 1y ago

aprilthird2021 1y ago
So you do pay for YouTube Premium then? Or are we not going to hear back from you?
- efdee 1y ago
  I used to, but I don't consume enough YouTube videos anymore to make it worthwhile. Give me a top-up plan that I can use to pay for individual videos and I will definitely do it. But what's with the weirdly aggressive second part of your message?
chii 1y ago
Your individual willingness is irrelevant. There are not enough people with your willingness to make this mechanism work by itself. So the choice is either to have the content exist, but rely on ads, or not have the content exist. And it's not your choice - it's the content creator's choice.
- notpushkin 1y ago
  If it’s not my choice, then there’s no problem if I block the ads, right?
- lxgr 1y ago
  You can pay for Youtube Premium right now and the ads go away. For a long time, my criticism was that Youtube Premium is needlessly bundled with Youtube Music, which is redundant for me as a Spotify user and which I refused to pay for accordingly. Now, in at least a few countries, there's "Youtube Premium Lite", which is basically regular Youtube but without ads. If you live in one of these, in my view that's close to the ideal scenario: Everybody gets to choose between watching ads and paying.
- efdee 1y ago
  Weird. I'm pretty sure that deciding whether or not to watch ads is entirely my choice.
hombre_fatal 1y ago
Youtube Premium has existed for 10 years and creators get paid from it.
- lokar 1y ago
  Do you happen to know if they get the same amount per view?
  - ta1243 1y ago
    > YouTube channels earn revenue from viewers with YouTube Premium. Throughout this month (August 2018), I earned approximately 55p per 1000 regular views and 94p per 1000 Premium views, so it appears that if 75% of your viewers went Premium, that would actually be beneficial. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/9agg5f/how_does_youtube_premium_affect_ad_revenue_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/9agg5f/how_does_yo... > Per user, creators usually get a LOT more from premium than ads. If I divide my monthly views by my monthly unique viewers, I get about 1.9 cents per viewer. > The way premium works is, first youtube takes a cut--I believe it's 45%. The remaining amount is divided among all the creators you watch based on how much you watch them. I believe that's based on view time. > So if the YT premium price is $13.99, the creators get 55% or $7.69. You would have to watch 405 different creators for each one to get 1.9 cents. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/16c80eb/how_do_youtubers_feel_about_youtube_premium/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/16c80eb/how_do_you...

I'm very much willing to pay for their content, but not in the way of watching ads during the videos.

by efdee 1y ago

I'm very much willing to pay for their content, but not in the way of watching ads during the videos.

aprilthird2021 1y ago

So you do pay for YouTube Premium then? Or are we not going to hear back from you?

efdee 1y ago
I used to, but I don't consume enough YouTube videos anymore to make it worthwhile. Give me a top-up plan that I can use to pay for individual videos and I will definitely do it. But what's with the weirdly aggressive second part of your message?

chii 1y ago

Your individual willingness is irrelevant. There are not enough people with your willingness to make this mechanism work by itself. So the choice is either to have the content exist, but rely on ads, or not have the content exist. And it's not your choice - it's the content creator's choice.

notpushkin 1y ago
If it’s not my choice, then there’s no problem if I block the ads, right?
lxgr 1y ago
You can pay for Youtube Premium right now and the ads go away. For a long time, my criticism was that Youtube Premium is needlessly bundled with Youtube Music, which is redundant for me as a Spotify user and which I refused to pay for accordingly. Now, in at least a few countries, there's "Youtube Premium Lite", which is basically regular Youtube but without ads. If you live in one of these, in my view that's close to the ideal scenario: Everybody gets to choose between watching ads and paying.
efdee 1y ago
Weird. I'm pretty sure that deciding whether or not to watch ads is entirely my choice.

hombre_fatal 1y ago

Youtube Premium has existed for 10 years and creators get paid from it.

lokar 1y ago
Do you happen to know if they get the same amount per view?
- ta1243 1y ago
  > YouTube channels earn revenue from viewers with YouTube Premium. Throughout this month (August 2018), I earned approximately 55p per 1000 regular views and 94p per 1000 Premium views, so it appears that if 75% of your viewers went Premium, that would actually be beneficial. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/9agg5f/how_does_youtube_premium_affect_ad_revenue_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/9agg5f/how_does_yo... > Per user, creators usually get a LOT more from premium than ads. If I divide my monthly views by my monthly unique viewers, I get about 1.9 cents per viewer. > The way premium works is, first youtube takes a cut--I believe it's 45%. The remaining amount is divided among all the creators you watch based on how much you watch them. I believe that's based on view time. > So if the YT premium price is $13.99, the creators get 55% or $7.69. You would have to watch 405 different creators for each one to get 1.9 cents. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/16c80eb/how_do_youtubers_feel_about_youtube_premium/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/16c80eb/how_do_you...