[Quote]Rumors of YouTube adopting a paid subscription model have been circulating for years, and now, Google has made it official. Starting today, the video service is launching a small group of paid channels from select content partners, with monthly fees starting at $0.99. The list of 53 channels included in the pilot program include Laugh Factory VIP, JIm Henson Family TV, National Geographic Kids, ScreamPix, UFC Select, and more.
...In the weeks to come, Google will allow additional channels to adopt the paid subscription model, although content makers will have to meet a set of prerequisites.[/Quote]
[url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/09/youtube-launches-paid-subscription-channels[/url]
It's the end of the end for YouTube now. Watch as channels like Smosh or FineBros eat this up and all the little kiddies start paying to watch their stuff.
[QUOTE=bdd458;40587176]
It's the end of the end for YouTube now. [/QUOTE]
no it isn't
If I have to pay for a channel I watch regularly I just won't watch it anymore. It's not worth paying a monthly subscription just to watch youtube videos.
Watch as the traffic for these channels plummets to rock bottom.
It'll be a sad day when people pay to watch =3.
[QUOTE=bdd458;40587176][url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/09/youtube-launches-paid-subscription-channels[/url]
It's the end of the end for YouTube now. Watch as channels [B]like Smosh or FineBros[/B] eat this up and all the little kiddies start paying to watch their stuff.[/QUOTE]
and would you really be affected?
99% of the channels i subscribe to probably wouldn't even be eligible to switch
It currently just looks like cable tv channels.
[QUOTE=bdd458;40587176][url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/09/youtube-launches-paid-subscription-channels[/url]
It's the end of the end for YouTube now. Watch as channels like Smosh or FineBros eat this up and all the little kiddies start paying to watch their stuff.[/QUOTE]
Implying that any channels that would add a subscription would be worth watching anyway.
From the looks of it, it appears to be just tv channels with shows and the like. Other stuff will probably be safe.. for now.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;40587210]and would you really be affected?
99% of the channels i subscribe to probably wouldn't even be eligible to switch[/QUOTE]
[Quote]and all the little kiddies start paying to watch their stuff[/Quote]
Ignoring the second half of a quote is a fantastic idea. If all those kids start to pay, Google and a lot of other partners might start to see the profits go up, and then upping the prices, extending it to non partner channels etc...
The ramifications of this are endless.
[I]"Hey guys thanks again for watching the video, remember to comment, like, subscribe and pay me $0.99 so you can watch my shitty videos. See you next week!"[/I]
[QUOTE=bdd458;40587241]Ignoring the second half of a quote is a fantastic idea. If all those kids start to pay, Google and a lot of other partners might start to see the profits go up, and then upping the prices, extending it to non partner channels etc...
The ramifications of this are endless.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I doubt it. All this seems to be is a subscription service similar to Netflix and Hulu Plus and things of that caliber for television channels and movies. I seriously doubt any channel like Smosh is going to become a pay-to-watch channel.
i love it when people dont actually see the article/see it themselves. the only channels using this are tv channels like cable and stuff.
I don't really see partner channels taking to this very much, I mean even if Google allows them to do this, they would probably see a sharp decrease in video views, that means less money for them, which is something that they don't want.
They've been a reality for a while. I ran into a couple of them a few weeks ago.
I hope they add some way to filter out subscription channels, because there's no way in fucking hell I'm paying for Youtube, so right now it just clutters up the search function.
I will never pay to watch a Youtube channel, even if it's one of my favorites.
Well shit. Let's see which of the major let's-play channels adapt to this model the first.
My bets are on PewDiePie.
Calm down, guys, I was joking, geez.
I would actually do this for some channels, if the quality of the content is good, then I would pay.
A dollar a month doesn't sound like that much tbh.
Channel owners arent fucktards, they know the quality of their videos is going to have to be exceptional for people to pay for it. They arent going to ruin their fanbase by applying.
And if they did make people pay and it failed... well it would just be made free again?
Dont understand the hype around this.
[QUOTE=bdd458;40587176][url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/09/youtube-launches-paid-subscription-channels[/url]
It's the end of the end for YouTube now. Watch as channels like Smosh or FineBros eat this up and all the little kiddies start paying to watch their stuff.[/QUOTE]
Flaw in your anti-youtube circlejerk: Smosh's target audience isn't old enough to have a credit card.
I can't wait to pay to watch Mashitima
Calm down, this is a good thing and is entirely optional.
I don't see this as any different than paying to watch tv shows or movies on youtube. Don't know what you guys are flipping out about.
Considering with cable you purchase this massive package of channels most of which you don't watch, I could see this being the future. Pay for what you want to watch. Though would prefer if you're paying for a channel subscription on YT ads would be nonexistent but that seems slightly too optimistic.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;40587351]Calm down, this is a good thing and is entirely optional.[/QUOTE]
No, it's not. The shitty pay to watch channels are probably gonna be those "featured" videos every time you log into youtube.
I'd really rather this not expand, but I know that it will, because there are enough people who are willing to pay.
Honestly
As someone who would never get cable because there are only 3-4 shows I'd ever even want to watch (and as such I'm more likely to want to use netflix or feel encouraged to pirate such shows)...
I'd fucking love if I could get TV quality content and episodes of a show for $1/mo or whatever per show.
Imagine if you could get Game of Thrones or Walking dead on YouTube for a "premium price" of $3-4/mo on YouTube during the length of the season (or rather, you'd stop subscribing to it once the season ends unless you wanted to keep watching old episodes)?
Or you wait until GoT/whatever is all done, subscribe for a "cheaper" price of 2-3 months for $3-4/mo and watch it all in that timeframe. Maybe during the season a show like GoT would be $5/mo but off-season it would be $3/mo. Flexible options for peopel with different amounts of income instead of trying to get everyone in on the most expensive thing. You could have shows you love that you would watch on-season for $5/mo (i.e. I might love 2 different shows and watch them on season for a total of $10/mo). Then shows you like as well but don't care to watch them during their season you'd see over the summer or something for $3/mo (so I'd have 3 or so shows I'd watch over the summer for a total of $9/mo). And then of course, you could have cheaper and more "indie" stuff for $1/mo, and the free YouTube Director/supporter stuff we currently get with ads.
Sure, at those prices it would technically be more expensive than just doing netflix if you want to watch more than one or two shows at a time, but you get a show on-demand that is currently in season or still in production for television, and you save a boat load by not having to pay for cable, etc. Granted, this is probably what Hulu does, but still. I'm trying to be fair to the fact that realistically speaking, networks that would want to do this would likely want to charge enough per show to make it so if you did subscribe to multiple shows it would be a better deal to to just wait on netflix/hulu.
Granted I feel like that would never happen at that price point because cable would NEVER allow it, and the shows would feel like their profit margins are going to be infringed on, but I feel like this is just a logical progression. Plus it gets money directly to the content creators instead of relying on cable subscriptions, networks, ads, etc. To me, this is the natural future of "television" - cable becomes something only enthusiasts would ever pay for, and a much larger, much wider audience just pays for the stuff they actually would want on a series by series basis at a much lower price per month than cable.
I will pay at least 40 dollars to see minecraft videos thanks youtube
(never hire me for a focus group I'd ruin everything)
National Geographic Kids? But now what will I do on Youtube? :(
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