Got the same bullshit email, total dick move by Google and I'll be cancelling. It's just pure greed.
I'm be exploring the ad blocking and/or VPN options.
Google need to separate YouTube and Music.
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Got the same bullshit email, total dick move by Google and I'll be cancelling. It's just pure greed.
I'm be exploring the ad blocking and/or VPN options.
Google need to separate YouTube and Music.
Jesus, how do they justify that price?
They charge more than Netflix yet they don't even make any of their own content?
It's because you also get youtube music streaming included with it. If netflix had its own music streaming service bundled in their prices would be even higher than they are now.
Music might really be their main problem. Basically every video has some music in it. If not in the foreground, then in the background. Even game soundtracks in Let's Plays are often under license. So the moment someone plays any such video, the content mafia comes around the corner with their baseball bats in hand collecting their tolls.
So I assume if they have to pay for music any way, they figured they might as well include a tailored music listening experience with Premium.
I'm always amaze by the fact that all these streaming platform do is give you access to others content ( they dont create shit), but they get to keep 98.7% of the revenue, because.
It's times like these when I'm glad I refused to even log into Google to view YouTube, let alone buy subscriptions. I also refuse to view downloading content (without logging in) that's freely available to be viewed as piracy.
These subscriptions are undoubtedly a rip-off. For those saying creators get a "cut", there's a reason why sites like Patreon exist. It's substantially better for creators if you subscribe to them directly that way and get your videos from Patreon. Same with Nebula etc. If I really had to pay then I'd do that (and do already for some stuff that was never on YouTube anyway).
You can get enough subs for the price of a YT premium to get plenty of content to watch, even if you don't want to subvert Google. So there's zero reason to throw money at them for this. None at all.
I am not saying I like YouTube, but they are actually one of the best when it comes to paying their creators.
Pretty much every popular creator from other platforms (like tiktok) goes to YouTube once they are big and want to earn money.
And yes of course they earn more on Patreon, but if I recall correctly most YouTubers get most of their money from YouTube, because they have their biggest audience.
De-monitisation is a pretty huge problem for many though.
I'm curious what's driving this revenue rush at Alphabet. It almost feels like something internal, like they're trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.
It’s not just Alphabet it’s cloud based companies across the board and basically VC money is drying up because it can be secured on 0% interest loans anymore
Alphabet would be less impacted by interest rates or VC money since they're a megacorp. I'm curious if for them they are afraid of not being competitive enough if they get trust busted.
It's happening across a lot of industries, especially tech. During covid line went up very fast. Post-covid line stopped going up fast, but companies are desperate to keep it going up fast. Otherwise it would count as a slowdown in year-on-year growth and we can never ever have that (/s).
Companies then: Let's make money!
Companies now: Let's make more money faster! Our graph of profit must concave up!
Companies 100 years from now: Let's increase the rate at which the rate at which our growth in profit increases increases!
People saying I'll cancel will not cancel. I've seen so many corp simps in the last few years that I lost faith in humanity
But it's on the internet, it must be true!
Enshittification of youtube is definitely progressing very rapidly.
I can't blame them. The fight to block adblockers is an expensive one, and they went all in on the fight. /s
Asshats.
E: adding the sarcasm mark, in case it wasn't obvious.
All prices seem to be going up around the board. I just got an email saying my Turkish Family Plan (via VPN) is increasing from TRY ₺59.99 to TRY ₺115.99. That's $3.29 to $6.36.
I haven’t received the email but I guess I should expect that price hike. Thanks for the info
Personally, I'm a fan of
For those who must have the official paid version, keep an eye on Ozbargain Youtube.
Free trials and/or VPN + subscribe overseas for a fraction of the price, eg Individual has been $2.34 a month via India, A$2.30 via Turkey
(this is before any potential price increases in those countries)
Revanced project, smart YouTubeTV and/or Smart YouTubeNext, ublock origin, and xManager for Spotify.
Does this mean that for people who don't pay they're going to make the ads twice as annoying?
Twice as frequent and half as skippable maybe.
It'll be like having visited a bad pornsite in the 90's and your screen will end up being ads stacked on top of ads.
Might be the end kf the platform if that actually happens, there's already an insufferable amount of ads as i keep getting these double ad blocks in a row.
For reference this is about $20 USD
It costs so much more to get the packets across the ocean, right?
I didn’t buy it in the first place because it was too expensive, this only further cements my never buying it.
Happily had Spotify for over a decade now and no issues paying a reasonable price there.
November last year the plan in CAD went from $17.99 to $22.99 a month, I took that because.i get a lot of use out of it. I haven't got an email yet but $46 a month will get it cancelled.
We're talking about the family plan here, which gives you 5 individual accounts.
nearly double the price for the same thing! this after disney raised prices, max downgraded service and kept prices the same, and disney is about to finish buying out hulu in order to, I'm sure, raise prices. Yarr!
Yea it's a pretty crazy increase. time to VPN up and move the family plan to india or turkey.
What are the downsides of buying a plan from another country?
There's always the chance that your account gets blocked in some way, or perhaps even your payment processor flags it as fraudulent. so it is best to set up a new account entirely just in case.
Also, your music and some algorithm suggestions will get mixed up, but that tends to solve itself after a little while
Well... I guess it helps creators at least.
Unless youtube changes their cut
That's going into Google's pocket, not the creators'.
They receive a 2/3 cut
I understand that revenue from a premium user's view is much higher for a creator than from a free user, but how would a 2/3 split work? Do you mean that YouTube uses 2/3 of premium revenue to pay creators?
That's my understanding of it