YouTube Red

£9.99 to watch a reality show with pewdiepie in it, id rather wrap my sack in barbed wire with one end tied to a breezeblock and slig it out of the 3rd floor window.

The £9.99 spent on wire and blocks would be better value for money.
 
All these different subscription services are getting too much. Add a few things together like Netflix, this, Spotify, NFL network, WWE Network, UFC, Amazon Prime, Sky, BT Sport, Tunein Pro, X BOX live, subscription radio stations, etc and some people will end up bankrupting themselves without even realising it.

The shift of media to the Internet has been a good thing, but everyone wants a piece of the pie and the consumer is being fleeced like never before. Personally I won't be subscribing to anything like this new service (other than Sky TV).


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i pay the google music £10 charge per month. I assume youtube red will now be included in this?

£10 is nothing, and even with all the other subscriptions, over all i think people spend less money on media than they used to. think of the price of a dvd or CD back 10-15 years ago. my dad for instance would buy at least 4/5 dvds/cds in a month which would cost more than all the subscriptions i have now.
 
Fairly sure the answer is no said:
i pay the google music £10 charge per month. I assume youtube red will now be included in this?

£10 is nothing, and even with all the other subscriptions, over all i think people spend less money on media than they used to. think of the price of a dvd or CD back 10-15 years ago. my dad for instance would buy at least 4/5 dvds/cds in a month which would cost more than all the subscriptions i have now.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Red
 
So basically if you make money from ads, and youtube allows peeps to pay to not have ads, you're forced to pay to still recieve ad money from the people who dont have ads but pay for the privelige?

Next up they'll be abolishing the 'skip in 5 seconds' button and making ads 5 minutes long to get folk to pay the subscription, at which point i'll have to get a windows tablet so i can run effective adblock.
 
YouTube is amazing but I severely doubt I will be parting with cash just to avoid adverts.

Annoying that content might disappear/be exclusive.

Inevitably I guess another platform will come along and replace YouTube at some point...:confused:
 
Robosapien said:
Inevitably I guess another platform will come along and replace YouTube at some point...:confused:
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i imagine youtube have plans to become bigger streamers with movies and such. aleady you can watch full movies uploaded by users, just this week i watch titanic on youtube and it was so easy to do. this is how i think companies should look to distribute their content in the future, not through netflix but through their own channel on youtube, getting a share of youtube red or the advertising shown to non paying users.
 
I'm guessing the content will start disappearing then behind this paywall since they wouldn't put youtubers in this new red service and still allow their content to be accessed for free. I won't be paying for it, quite happy with freeview and most youtube stuff isn't up to the same standard as traditional tv broadcasting imo.
 
thenewoc said:
youtube stuff isn't up to the same standard as traditional tv broadcasting imo.
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funnyily enough i much prefer it. Youtube content feels way more real. Some channels earnt too much cash and become a bit too commercial while trying to pretend to be the small guy doing it alone in his bedroom type, but i see right through them and have a geat massive list of channels i've subscribed too done by real honest unique creative people. MKBHD is my favourite tech reviewer, LAHWF my favourite awkward prankster, boogie2988 my favourite lovable guy, bikeman my funniest quickest wit game streamer. none of the content on these channels is anything like you'd find on tv.

when i was younger living with parents i'd take my dinner to my bedroom and find something on tv to watch while eating. then as i got older it turned into iplayer while on my pc. now it's just youtube i go to and i hear this a lot with more and more people.
 
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All these different subscription services are getting too much. Add a few things together like Netflix, this, Spotify, NFL network, WWE Network, UFC, Amazon Prime, Sky, BT Sport, Tunein Pro, X BOX live, subscription radio stations, etc and some people will end up bankrupting themselves without even realising it.

The shift of media to the Internet has been a good thing, but everyone wants a piece of the pie and the consumer is being fleeced like never before. Personally I won't be subscribing to anything like this new service (other than Sky TV).
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And they wonder why people pirate things...
 
Sky TV
Amazon Prime
Netflix
BT Sports
XBL
PSN

...I do not need another subscription service....

YouTube for me has alway been a free service, i can live with the ads, that's part and parcel of the site, it always has been and I am used to it. It's expected so I am fine with it.
 
I'm with the others who won't be paying for google youtube... seriously most of it's pretty boring anyway. Pretty sure they tried this a while back too and that failed massively.

Also curious about what happens to the 'youtube red' content if you're in a country not supported by it... like anyone outside the US at the moment. Will you still be able to find it for free elsewhere?

Also paying £10 a month doesn't sound a lot until you realise just how many you need to sign up for to get a decent selection of tv shows (due to the stupid 'exclusive to... deals), music etc. That £10 a month can quickly turn into £40-50 a month and that's just going with the obvious ones like netflix, spotify, amazon prime, crunchyroll (anime) and xbox
 
Robosapien said:
YouTube is amazing but I severely doubt I will be parting with cash just to avoid adverts.

Annoying that content might disappear/be exclusive.

Inevitably I guess another platform will come along and replace YouTube at some point...:confused:
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If this is true :eek: and they create a two tier system with some contents disappearing form You Tube and only available on the subscription version this will kill You Tube as a platform.

They cant expect people who are (legally) used to getting their content for fee to start paying for it. They will just migrate to another platform.
 
squired said:
All these different subscription services are getting too much. Add a few things together like Netflix, this, Spotify, NFL network, WWE Network, UFC, Amazon Prime, Sky, BT Sport, Tunein Pro, X BOX live, subscription radio stations, etc and some people will end up bankrupting themselves without even realising it.

The shift of media to the Internet has been a good thing, but everyone wants a piece of the pie and the consumer is being fleeced like never before. Personally I won't be subscribing to anything like this new service (other than Sky TV).


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Was going to say the same. Each of them has one or two must-see things supplemented by loads of things you'll watch cos you've paid for it. It's the death by a thousand cuts though, you can't subscribe to everything.
 
It's pretty neat, actually. Lots of products in an ad free environment for subscribers. I will sub to it once Google Music is more fully featured, as it's pretty ass at the moment - No star ratings support, the Google Music app is quite pants compared to 3rd party competition, and the uploads are transcoded to mp3 whatever the source format...

AdBlock Origin eradicates ads for free users though... But then there's the moral aspect of supporting content creators I suppose.

Also, lol at lots of people moaning that their few clips earning ad revenue will get removed. The announcement states that only big time content creators are subjected to this, not people who upload a few videos here and there and monetise them.
 
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