https://www.polygon.com/23300486/disney-plus-subscription-ad...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...
Like the above sites, later on you will need to buy Youtube Premium Pro to actually get ad free youtube experience. Later on the current premium will definitely have ads.
Biggest difference is YT does not incur production and distribution costs (ie distribution rights). Creators on YT upload their videos and YT only pays out when they also make money off the ads.
So if a creator made a video and published it on YT and the thing got 10 views and no ad-revenue, the only cost for YT is the infra costs. Contrast that with a company like Netflix where they purchase rights to a film or TV series that flops.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6358146?hl=en
It also has youtube gaming where they pay streamers (buy out streamers at once) via contract just like Netflix buys rights for movies and tv shows.
https://www.polygon.com/23053800/sykkuno-youtube-deal-stream...
> Later on the current premium will definitely have ads.
I take it you work on the strategy of YouTube?
To get Youtube Original content like Kobra Kai (it moved to netflix in the end)
https://deadline.com/2020/06/cobra-kai-moves-netflix-youtube...
Or for non-premium user will get 5 ads before start of video whereas Premium user will get 1 ad before videos and get youtube originals, background video playback, download videos, youtube music etc. And Youtube Premium Pro users will get all other benefits of Premium users with one extra feature of going completely ad-free.
Do a lot of people want that?
I subscribe to YouTube premium but I've never been tempted to watch any of the original content. None of it is what I go to YouTube for. But I'm a sample size of one.