Hot Topic Youtube Red: A New YouTube Monthly Subscription Service?

Will You be Joining Youtube Red

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • No

    Votes: 11 78.6%
  • Total voters
    14
Okay first off Ive received NO information about this service. None ziltch nothing. As a content creator shouldnt they let us know BEFORE they give it to the general public?
Also how will be receive revenue now if YOUTUBE is collecting the subscriptions for ad free content?
I smell a rat here....
 
I'm not particularly concerned because, I mean... Who actually invests money in something thats free? Thats so 1990s.
Plus, pretty sure anyone who would care enough to buy that would already be using adblock.

This is one of those shiny badges companies tack onto themselves to earn PR points, even if it doesn't actually do anything.
The only thing anyone should be concerned with is that youtube is finally experimenting with getting people to pay to use services on their website. It's a small aspect now, but everything starts small.
 
Cabbage Hunters said:
I'm not particularly concerned because, I mean... Who actually invests money in something thats free? Thats so 1990s.
Plus, pretty sure anyone who would care enough to buy that would already be using adblock.

This is one of those shiny badges companies tack onto themselves to earn PR points, even if it doesn't actually do anything.
The only thing anyone should be concerned with is that youtube is finally experimenting with getting people to pay to use services on their website. It's a small aspect now, but everything starts small.
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Ive also heard a lot of rumors and Id like to know if they are true or not, such as if we the creators OPT OUT of the service YouTube will set our videos to private. So does that mean we have to pay the 9.99 too? If not why would they offer an opt out?[DOUBLEPOST=1445488057,1445487984][/DOUBLEPOST]
SerjEpic said:
This might help with revenue for some content creators. A 1000 views usually equals to $1-$5, but with RED you can make a lot more it just depends on how long people watch you. If 1000 people are subscribed to 20 channels and they watch all the channels equally, each channel will get $250.[DOUBLEPOST=1445470060,1445469972][/DOUBLEPOST]
Google is working on stopping adblock from working on Youtube.[DOUBLEPOST=1445470271][/DOUBLEPOST]
I agree with you ad-blockers dose not help Youtube or content creators, they only slow down the growth of Youtubers. RED is only going to help smaller channels.
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If smaller channels opt in...but I hear if you opt out they set your videos to private. Now by opting in does that mean we have to pay the money too as creators?

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Stike96 said:
I think it will affect it in some way, I mean there will definitely be less ad clicks (because some of the people who were clicking on ads will no longer be seeing them), so some of that subscription revenue will definitely be coming our way, I really don't see how it couldn't change.

Also yeah we'll have to see about adblock, I think if Google was to block it or something like that they would be pretty quite about it (although I'm sure the internet won't be quiet).
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How do you know some of that subscription revenue will come our way? Youtube hasnt even contacted most of us! I got no notice of this, I found out about it on twitter from a youtuber complaining about viewer retention and its effects on the new service...
 
LadyDewinter said:
Ive also heard a lot of rumors and Id like to know if they are true or not, such as if we the creators OPT OUT of the service YouTube will set our videos to private. So does that mean we have to pay the 9.99 too? If not why would they offer an opt out?
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All normal individual creators are opted in automatically. There are some very small edge cases (networks that have specific, separate contracts for revenue with Youtube) that have to opt in manually. Most of these cases have been resolved already, but if you have an edge case and you don't respond they will set your videos to private. I'm assuming you don't run a network, so you have nothing to worry about.

No, you don't have to pay anything if you don't want to. If you choose to opt out, Youtube will disable your monetization, not private your videos. As of this point you're automatically opted-in.

The worst part about all of this is, I had to find all this out from someone who works at Youtube. They did a horrible job making this kind of information accessible to creators...
 
I think I heard that for the YouTube Red users that view our channels, if an ad were to play from that playback that was bypassed by YouTube Red - we still get the revenue as if YouTube Red did not exist.
I don't think YouTube would risk screwing over the smaller channels that have potential to be bigger and bring in more site traffic. Wouldn't make any sense from a business point of view.
 
iGM said:
I think I heard that for the YouTube Red users that view our channels, if an ad were to play from that playback that was bypassed by YouTube Red - we still get the revenue as if YouTube Red did not exist.
I don't think YouTube would risk screwing over the smaller channels that have potential to be bigger and bring in more site traffic. Wouldn't make any sense from a business point of view.
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Not true. You'll be getting an infinitely small percentage of what they paid for access after Youtube takes their cut (45%, like ad rev), so you're splitting $5.50 across every single video they watch that month. It's going to be less than your CPM unless you have diehard fans that only watch your channel and also pay for Red.
 
Riddikore said:
I think they mean you have to agree to the terms of making your channel videos eligible for the subscription service. Not that you need to purchase the subscription yourself.

Here's the Tech Crunch article:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-offer-creators-cant-refuse/
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Right? This is exactly what I got from it. YouTube said it themselves, via their blog, that they don't want to get rid of their free, ad-supported site. So if this is the case, it would be unfair that you couldn't upload anymore publically and still have a free, ad-supported site anyways. Netflix doesn't do that at all. In fact, you can't watch anything without a subscription to Netflix, so this is not like that at all. It's just a matter of if other people want to purchase that subscription or not and the fact that YouTube wants to get it on the record that they can use your product for YT Red.
 
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