Anyone else think YouTube Premium is pretty reasonably priced? You are getting a music streaming service on top of ad free YouTube. I've been very happy with it since subscribing.
So instead of justifying Premium I started unsubbing even those that I respected, but currently became plain ad space. Also archived manually most videos that I valued in the past that are actual knowledge/art and tend to just try to ignore youtube. It's not a complete detox (due to lots of embedded videos on third party sites) but so far feels like a relief.
The payment here makes little sense. None if you actually don't like/need youtube music.
That's what I did.
(If there'd been a £6.99 Premium Lite option, I'd probably have paid. But then again, I've been on a subscription-cancelling spree this year, first things to go when inflation/energy prices really started to hurt)
But enough people bring it up that I honestly think the product page should let you buy YT Premium without YT Music for the same price just so people get it...
> YouTube generated $29.2 billion revenue in 2022. Over 2.5 billion people access YouTube once a month. YouTube Premium reached 80 million subscribers in 2022.
Src: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/
I suppose with $30 billions of revenue, and billions of users per month, you theoretically can create $2 per month Premium and still have big profits.
That doesn't follow. You're making three unfounded assumptions there:
- That YouTube is currently making big profits.
- That every user is the same value
- That ever user pays the same amount for a YT Premium subscriptions.
But in reality we only know YT's revenue, not their profit (or even whether it's a profit rather than a loss). We know for a fact that not every user is of the same value; the ad revenue from the average user in say US is far higher than that of the average user in Turkey. And in what is almost certainly not a coincidence, the price of YT Premium in the US is far higher than for those in Turkey.
(I can see it being worth for music, but I don't use youtube for that.)
The price would only make sense to me, personally, in a world where it's the one and only streaming subscription a person could ever want. As it is, it feels like an $80-$100 per year service.
On the mobile app you can't even see the full title, and mostly it appears to have nothing to do with the content anyway.
Maybe I'm just a bitter old man, but fuck all those shorts for their waste of increasingly precious time.
Is that the entirety of what TikTok is?
I'm not sure if Google product people actually use their products.
Obviously there are the increasing number of ads actually within youtube videos, but at least you can skip over them.