No matter how big you are I bet you will shoot yourself in the foot and loose a bunch of people.
I'm kind of confused by this comment.
I believe
@SerjEpic was saying he'd
use the service, ie he'd be prepared to pay a subscription to watch without ads. The comment is from a user point of view, (unless I completely misunderstood lol
) Not sure how the size of his channel comes into it
Either I have misunderstood the new service or people in this thread are all talking about different things.
Here is my understanding of the situation:
From the YouTube users' (viewers') perspective:
- From a date yet to be announced, if a viewer has
not subscribed to the new ad-free service, then there is no change to them. They can watch videos as before and there will be ads on the videos. (on the videos that are monetized)
-If they have subscribed to the new service, then they can also watch videos, but there will be no ads (even on videos which the creator has monetized).
From the YouTube creators' perspective:
- Since this is a significant change to the YouTube business model, YouTube must legally change their TOS for partners. They informed creators of this in April via email and the new TOS were issued in June I believe.
- Also from a legal point of view, creators must explicitly accept those TOS. This is the stage we're at now. YouTube is apparently sending out requests for people to accept the TOS.
If they don't accept the new TOS, then their monetized videos will be switched to private until the new agreement is accepted. ( Source:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...aunch-october-22nd-with-the-name-youtube-red/
So all that has really changed from the creators' point of view is that monetization now means that the creator will either receive money from the ad revenue or from the ad-free subscription. I really don't see how that is shooting oneself in the foot? In the eyes of the viewer, the channel creator isn't doing anything different. There are ads on his monetized videos for people who haven't paid but that's nothing new.
The creator will still have the option of publishing videos with no monetization at all.
never in a million years. No one on youtube is interesting enough for me to pay to watch
No i dont and Ads dont run when i watch videos
So this means that YouTube is offering people to pay $8-10 to block the ads?
Well i would never do that because there are many free ad blockers
I can't believe that on a forum of YT creators who are all trying to grow their channels (and depend therefore on the good financial health of YouTube and would themselves benefit from revenue from their own hard work) that people are using adblockers on YouTube. The irony and hypocricy in that attitude astounds me.
It's like being an employee of McDonalds and moaning that the food isn't free for everyone.[DOUBLEPOST=1443517420,1443515210][/DOUBLEPOST]Anyone who thinks that YouTube can provide "free" content without ads is very naive indeed. Let's not forget that YT was losing millions before Google bought it and currently it's break-even at best. I think these changes are fantastic.
