I have a family Premium subscription. I'm sad this can not be the default YouTube experience for everybody as every time I see someone watching YT without a sub I do not understand how they can tolerate the barrage of advertising.
Surely this attention economy model must be a loss for humanity as a whole, no?
This is reasonable. However, I don't like being forced to also pay for their music streaming service because I already pay for (and prefer) a different service.
If you watch a lot of youtube video's it's worth it for just the ad-free experience alone. I actually did some math a while back and figured out based on my hourly bill rate that it's technically costing me money to not pay for YT premium (that is the time spent watching ads times my bill rate was greater than the monthly subscription cost).
You're not really, it just doesn't cost YouTube any more in terms of licensing the music for their music streaming service than it does to clear the rights for YouTube Premium, so they literally may as well include it.
A YouTube Premium lite is available in a few territories, but where it isn't that's because the music situation means it could cost single cents a month less than the full service and therefore isn't worth doing.
> Income from premium is distributed by your watchtime. YouTube takes a portion of your monthly fee and divides it between the videos you watched. You watch only a single creator, that creator will get all of it. You watch only few videos, those videos will earn a larger chunk each. You watch hundreds of videos, each video will only earn a small amount. You pay a lot for premium, more will be paid to creators. You use a vpn to buy premium from india or so, only a fraction of that payment will be distributed accordingly.
> If you are not using premium creators get paid from advertisements that are actually watched. So either you have to watch the full advertisement, if it is shorter than 30 seconds, or at least 30 seconds from a longer advertisement, before you skip it. Skipping an advertisement after 5 - 29 seconds means no payout to the creator.
IIRC, premium was a large part of the reason behind those wacky auto-generated kids streams that was in the news a couple years ago. Parents don't want their kids watching ads, so a good number of kids have premium accounts. Premium pays a lot better than ads, so targeting kids can be quite lucrative.
PeterStuer|3 years ago
Surely this attention economy model must be a loss for humanity as a whole, no?
irthomasthomas|3 years ago
diebeforei485|3 years ago
_fat_santa|3 years ago
Mindwipe|3 years ago
A YouTube Premium lite is available in a few territories, but where it isn't that's because the music situation means it could cost single cents a month less than the full service and therefore isn't worth doing.
Tijdreiziger|3 years ago
kajaktum|3 years ago
jterrys|3 years ago
Google is notorious for snuffing products they consider unprofitable. Yet persisted with Youtube for 16 years. Why?
ChuckNorris89|3 years ago
hulitu|3 years ago
... and HD behind compression.
iso1631|3 years ago
robertwt7|3 years ago
james-skemp|3 years ago
I believe it shows as a different line item in their revenue dashboard.
Super basic official answer: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en
Edit:
From a creator at https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/xv8k6n/i_have_yout... (so take it as you will):
> Income from premium is distributed by your watchtime. YouTube takes a portion of your monthly fee and divides it between the videos you watched. You watch only a single creator, that creator will get all of it. You watch only few videos, those videos will earn a larger chunk each. You watch hundreds of videos, each video will only earn a small amount. You pay a lot for premium, more will be paid to creators. You use a vpn to buy premium from india or so, only a fraction of that payment will be distributed accordingly.
> If you are not using premium creators get paid from advertisements that are actually watched. So either you have to watch the full advertisement, if it is shorter than 30 seconds, or at least 30 seconds from a longer advertisement, before you skip it. Skipping an advertisement after 5 - 29 seconds means no payout to the creator.
bryanlarsen|3 years ago
PeterStuer|3 years ago
skyde|3 years ago
jerlam|3 years ago
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-cr...
You can build a creator career on YouTube, but on Vimeo you'll pay for the privilege.