For ten years, social media site YouTube has given us countless of precious memories and entertainment. How would you like to pay for YouTube?
Don’t worry; it’s just optional. It is for most of us. This ad-free subscription is expected to debut in the next few months. You can store videos with your mobile device offline. The cost of the new ad-free YouTube will cost around $10 a month. Producers can create videos exclusively for the premium site. This premium site could include a lesser cost for a specific category, like music, or family based videos. Video producers will split subscription profits with YouTube, well, YouTube will get 45% and the producer will get 55%, based on the time viewers watch their channels and videos. This could prove an unfair advantage to channels with low or moderate viewership. But wait; there’s more: YouTube producers who put videos on the premium channel will be required to be premium customers themselves.
YouTube wants to compete with Hulu and Netflix in the paid subscription game. Their parent company Google already has Music Key. But they’d better keep this paid subscription service just that, optional. I’ve been a YouTube fan for years. I don’t know about you, but watching commercials is worth what I pay for YouTube now: nothing! But if people want to pay for the service, let them pay. For those who want to keep it free, let it be free. If YouTube continues with this plan, I think they should reduce the price for this. If Hulu and Netflix are only charging around $8.00 a month, shouldn’t YouTube make their service more competitive to that? ?And what about channel and video producers? How many of them will get tempted to join this premium network for an extra piece of the pie, thus making fans pay to even see their videos? And how many subscribers will they risk losing because of this?