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YouTube premium is great, I'm surprised it's not more popular. I'd cut my Spotify subscription way before YouTube, but that's not what I typically hear from my friends.

Spotify = Streaming music $12/month YouTube = Streaming music + learned SolidWorks + learned Blender + learning Spanish + general entertainment of all sorts... $12/month. YouTube is incredible.

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It’s not popular because it’s incredibly expensive. For $12/month you get:

- No ads

- Minor usability improvements to the app

- “premium” content

- YouTube Music

The “premium” content is trash and YouTube Music is the worst music app with any significant effort put behind it, in addition to being a significant step down from Google‘s previous offering.

Most people would rather deal with the ads.

If youtube premium allowed you to access _all_ member's only videos on all channels, then it's be worth it.

It's not popular here because "YouTube Premium is not available in your country"

Also, I'd rather not feed the monopoly even more.

YouTube Music is a joke.

Really? I get my best music recommendations from normal YouTube. I figured their music service would be solid. Apple Music which I primarily use can’t find me new artists that I like, and when I had Spotify it was awful.

Really? I get the total opossite. Spotify keeps letting me find amazing bands with just 2 years if learning my taste. Youtube keeps telling me I want to watch the same music videos over and over.

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