YouTube May Let You Pay to Skip Ads via Payed subscription..

[Tech_Dreamer]

Ads..Ads everywhere..

 

 

On Monday, at a conference in Silicon Valley, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the video giant was considering launching an ad-free subscription service,

 

 

 

YouTube right now is ad-supported, which is great because it has enabled us to scale to a billion users; but there are going to be cases where people are going to say, `I don’t want to see the ads, or I want to have a different experience

 

                                                                                                                    - Susan Wojcicki  (Youtube CEO)

 

By offering subscriptions, YouTube would add not just another conduit of revenue, but new complexity as it gets into the competitive space previously dominated by TV subscription services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime

 

In 2013, YouTube let individual content owners sell subscriptions to their stuff, but it has done little to promote that option since then

 

 

 

Wojcicki, previously the lead on Google’s advertising and analytics team, became CEO of YouTube in February. Since then, she has prioritized content creators on the site and sought to understand the audience ecosystem that supports them.

 

 

 

Currently, YouTube stars earn money by through a revenue share with Google on the ads tacked onto their videos, though many have said that these rates are too low. Indeed, there has been a threat for YouTube stars to jump ship for other competitors.

 

 

A subscription service could bolster creators’ earnings more by adding another source of revenue. And that extra money in their pockets probably can’t come too soon as rivals seek to undermine YouTube’s dominance

 

 

 

“There are always new ad platforms coming out, but at the end of the day people say, I’m going to go to the one that generates the most revenue for me.”

 

 

 

There have been talks about yahoo bringing a tough competition to googles youtube & been contacting some of the top subscribed/viewed channel content providers .. @LinusTech *wink wink*

Also facebook is doing something similar as you're reading this

 

YouTube also hasn’t spelled out how the new subscription service would compensate its talent, though it has historically shown a commitment to seeking to generate revenue for its creators

 

 

Google attracts more than a billion visitors per month, and an increasing number of them are coming from mobile. Google doesn’t break out YouTube’s financials

 

 

 

YouTube views are now coming from mobile devices. Along with that the site is growing 50 percent each year in terms of watch time

 

 

YouTube wants its stars to stay(remember rumors of pewdiepie network? ), and it’s doing that by offering a new option. But the option doesn’t mean much unless viewers also get onboard.

 

Bonus:

 

 

Rather Cool news for those who haven't heard about adblock plus, Cool anyways

 

So... would you pay to keep ads away? :huh:  Post your thoughts & Comments / Rants down belowww...

 

Link:

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/keep-stars-happy-youtube-may-let-pay-skip-ads/

[Flight1sim]

LOL that bonus!

Also, you mean like twitch?

[Snapy1]

Man, I really hate using adblock but man if it comes to this im gonna have to just to protest it.

[terrytek]

Might as well go ad free for everybody.

[Octagoncow]

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article too much.

I wonder how this will effect how much money content providers will earn.

[AlwaysFSX]

But this exists.

[Extingquish]

How exactly are they going to enforce this? What if the user isn't logged in?

[Darkstar101]

Pay to don't see ADS?

 

Lol!

 

I will continue to use Ghostery and NoScript in Firefox, I think they're better than Adblock.

[LancerBG]

i gave the adblock guy a buck...already paid.

[worldwin]

Pay to don't see ADS?

 

Lol!

 

I will continue to use Ghostery and NoScript in Firefox, I think they're better than Adblock.

You know LMG has this option where people are supporters in tiers of bronze,silver and gold. The thing about the ads is about how intrusive it is. The ads on this site are not even remotely annoying but on youtube it will drive you insane.

[KingDaddyDaniel]

But this exists.

Yes, but think of all the middle school teachers who are going to need an employer provided Business Account for Youtube. 90% of my history and art classes from grades 6-12 were teachers playing a youtube video

[TheMcSame]

So I can pay to skip ads or I can just use a free browser extension... Sometimes I wonder what people think when they come up with ideas like this.

[handymanshandle]

Meh I don't really care as long as YouTube still has a partner program that pays accordingly. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

most of you are missing the point about a paid subscription, this is not going to replace ads completely, this is to give people choice and what i'm assuming is the important bit, to increase revenue, every quarter youtube reports increased views from mobile (which doesn't have ads) compared to desktop/website views (which does have ads) this is a way to profit from that end, why do you guys think the massive issue with dmca claims happened last year, the forced networks to reduce their privileged channels that skip the automated system to normal channels, yes, it was mostly due to the stupid amount of takedowns request, but it was also to change the revenue stream from networked channels since they were getting paid from every view regardless if it was monetized or not, this changed that an most network settled to only pay for monetized views, now with a premium ad free subscription, it changes everything, if its something reasonable like netflix is, i might go for it, youtube is my main source of entertainment these days

[TheRetiredSlave]

So I can pay to skip ads or I can just use a free browser extension... Sometimes I wonder what people think when they come up with ideas like this.

 

Serious question: How do you think that Linus pays his employees and feeds his family?

 

I believe that he's said that Google's ad service isn't a very large part of his company's total income, but since he is offering us a free service, he has to get money from somewhere. Viewers using things like adblock is basically just like pissing on the work that his crew has done.

 

Dishonest people will continue to be dishonest, but if this service allows for honest people to both enjoy ad-free content without directly hurting the content creators, there's a good chance that it will be very successful. (Twitch has been doing this with success for a long time if I'm not mistaken).

[Lukiose]

Oh dear, I seem to have that functionality since 4 years ago in the form of a stop shaped ABP sign.

Lel

[Guest]

i gave the adblock guy a buck...already paid.

Scummy 

[Syntaxvgm]

Scummy 

I'll tell you what's scummy- the mobile ads. They don't pay the content providers, and they play in the middle of videos. 

[TheMcSame]

Serious question: How do you think that Linus pays his employees and feeds his family?

 

I believe that he's said that Google's ad service isn't a very large part of his company's total income, but since he is offering us a free service, he has to get money from somewhere. Viewers using things like adblock is basically just like pissing on the work that his crew has done.

 

Dishonest people will continue to be dishonest, but if this service allows for honest people to both enjoy ad-free content without directly hurting the content creators, there's a good chance that it will be very successful. (Twitch has been doing this with success for a long time if I'm not mistaken).

How do I think he pays his employees and feeds his family? Through sponsors  and any extra revenue that may/may not be generated by his company.

 

Besides, you make it sound like it's rocket science just to disable an extension to benefit him.

[TheRetiredSlave]

How do I think he pays his employees and feeds his family? Through sponsors  and any extra revenue that may/may not be generated by his company.

 

Besides, you make it sound like it's rocket science just to disable an extension to benefit him.

 

And the sponsors use... Advertisements....

Yes, Google's ads before videos play are different than the sponsor messages in the middle of the videos, but it's the same idea really.. Both are advertisements that benefit the content creators (whether that be Linus or SomeNamelessRandomChannel#453) and allow us to watch the content for free. 

 

 

I don't believe that I made it sound like rocket science to temporarily disable extensions. 

[Psykomantis00]

There are ad's on youtube?

[mr moose]

ADs ADs  Ads EVERYwhere?  there are only two on each page and half the time one can be minimised.

 

Content has to be paid for somehow, it costs real money to provide the service to view it, if you don't want ads then either be prepared to pay for the service or go without. 

[Syntaxvgm]

ADs ADs  Ads EVERYwhere?  there are only two on each page and half the time one can be minimised.

 

Content has to be paid for somehow, it costs real money to provide the service to view it, if you don't want ads then either be prepared to pay for the service or go without. 

Youtube is not the worst offender for me. I don't like ads on a lot of the videos, but I am fine if it's a channel i watch. 

I don't like websites that have so many ads that it's makes the browser sluggish. Sometimes I turn it off and it's like whoa this is slow to load. And my computer is just fine, and my connection is 12/5, so decent enough

[Tech_Dreamer]

LOL that bonus!

Also, you mean like twitch?

I don't know about twitch, But it's knda like what Netflix & Hulu does..

[mr moose]

Youtube is not the worst offender for me. I don't like ads on a lot of the videos, but I am fine if it's a channel i watch. 

I don't like websites that have so many ads that it's makes the browser sluggish. Sometimes I turn it off and it's like whoa this is slow to load. And my computer is just fine, and my connection is 12/5, so decent enough

 

I just don't use sites that are stupidly overloaded with ads.  If everyone does the same then companies will find a way to improve their ad revenue, rather than look at paid accounts.