An ad-free YouTube

Junr55

Junr55

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So I was watching a video by Phillip Defranco today talking about how some YouTube channels would become advertisement free if those channels were to run off of paid subscriptions. As for other content creators, i'm not sure how that would work out. But I wanted to know what everyone else thinks. Would you pay a one time payment of $4 or $5 to avoid having to watch advertisements on one of your favorite YouTuber's channel? Personally I like advertisements that are only 15 seconds or shorter in length. I found out about a lot of different movie titles that I went to see through them! How about for you guys?
 
Junr55 said:
Would you pay a one time payment of $4 or $5 to avoid having to watch advertisements on one of your favorite YouTuber's channel?
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Nope. Personally, I can sit through 5 seconds of an ad and then skip it.

Most others use Adblock - no ads and no one time payment needed.
 
I don't think there is any channel I'd buy a paid subscription for, but there are tons I would watch ads for. I think a paid subscription would be good for special content that isn't available to non-paid memebers, but all content being subscription is a hard sell for me. They'd have to have great content and it would have to come out pretty often.
 
I prefer the ad route because I don't really want to subscribe to a channel financially. But I think it's fair that if someone pays for a subscription than they should not be served ads until the duration of the subscription expires.
 
i'm surprised there was not one person that used adblock, that decided to post on here. And honestly people complain about 30 second - 1 minute ad's when you could get up to get something or tab to something else while you wait.
 
@Junr55

http://recode.net/2014/10/27/susan-wojcicki-code-mobile-2014/

If you watch the video with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, she talks about YouTube looking at how consumers are using apps and getting the option of paying for the app or having ad-supported access.

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She says that consumers could pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience. She also talks about how long-form content is available view Over The Top. That means content delivery via the internet like Netflix and Hulu for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-top_content

This part is confusing, apparently from the Wall Street Journal

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The question is, how are creators going to divvy up that $10? What is Google's revenue share? If the customer watched 100 videos that month, will it be split up proportionately by each channel/video that was watched? Will it be split up by watch-time?

Only time will tell. Here's Phil's video. Jump to 5:01

 
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