Youtube Red.

[Thronar]

wonder why they didnt call it redtube hehehe B)

[VirtualDemon]

Not a fan of the "member-only access to new, original shows and movies from some of YouTube's biggest creators."

 

Yea I don't like that either. Degrades the experience overall for people who aren't forking money over because they're creating two tiers of experiences, rather than the one equal experience everyone gets now. 

 

Anyways as far as the other "benefits" there's this thing called Adblock and it's extremely easy to download youtube videos if you want as it is. If I wanted to contribute to a specific youtuber I would donate to them privately and not through a system where youtube gets most of the cut.

 

I dislike the idea in general, if YouTube started out by having the top channels offer two tiers of viewing, one for the "exclusive" people who paid, I doubt it would be as popular as it is today. People loved the platform because it was open and available to everyone free of charge.

[dylan43270]

I was actually thinking about switching to Tidal since I would get 50% off with my girlfriends student e-mail. May stick with Google All Access if this helps the Youtubers I watch. 

[AxelRantila]

So the subscription does also include Google Play Music. In that case AWESOME, since I already use Google Play Music and I woundn't mind paying a bit more for the YouTube Red benefits.

[ConnorDahne]

"Youtube Red, screwing more people than Redtube"
New official slogan

[HarmFull]

I'll just say this.

 

YouTube has been having trouble making money since day 1. How do you make money of a free service? Adds.

 

Since more and more people started using adblockers, marketing has moved into the video's for example: Lynda.com, Dbrand etc. in Linus' videos.

YouTube saw this and saw it as unfair competiton so they decided to demand a fee for in vid commercials, which I sorta can emphasize with but it is dirty, as it's the YouTubers own hard work that gets them those sponsorships.

 

What they are doing now with YouTube Red is something that's comparable to Twitch Turbo and I do feel it's a good thing (not to mention a pretty good deal if you count all the features and free Play Music). I do however think that exclusive content from the creators is going a bit too far.

 

Basically they can say something like: Linus, we're planning on moving Scrapyard Wars beyond a paywall. Agree or your video's won't be posted online! This is called blackmail!

[PCBjon]

Kinda pointless since content creators but ads in their videos anyway.

[lol1290]

"YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads, while also letting you save videos to watch offline on your phone or tablet and play videos in the background, all for $9.99 a month."

 

Umm... couldn't we do all that already?

[Patrick3D]

As a cord cutter, I will gladly pay the $10/month for the ad-free experience. I didn't cancel cable service to suddenly get everything for free, I canceled due to the poor cost/service value. The negative side-effect of Youtube Red will be the canceling of some Patreon subscriptions that were for YouTube-only content creators. If the Google Music service is identical to the current music service Google offers, that will be a nice bonus since I had canceled an $8/month early-adopter Google music plan in favor of Apple Music.

[Jerakl]

Here's TBs take on it

https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/youtube-red

 

 

You should put this in the OP @beach_boy98

[Brainless906]

https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/youtube-red

TB did a good piece on this. 

[RagnarokDel]

I use Youtube almost every single day, it is one of my primary forms of entertainment. Personally I think $10 a month, or 32¢ a day, pales in comparison to the value I get with the services Youtube and it's content creators supply.

 

"Its not going to make the content creators richer, its not going to make the content better, its not going to make the experience better (with the exception of external ads)."

 

The content creators will be getting a cut from the subscription. This will supplement there income, and if the service becomes successful enough, It could overtake their ad revenue, considering the increasing number of adblock users.

Youtube makes 4 billion revenue a year, they have 1 billion users/month. In other words, they make 33 cents/month per user in revenue. It would only take them 30 million users(3%) to vastly improve their revenue.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

"while also letting you save videos to watch offline on your phone or tablet and play videos in the background" , wait, does this mean they are gonna remove offline videos on normal youtube app? 

[asker509]

I'm just sad that ESPN pulled all their videos cause of this