Topic: Youtube to put up paywall for certain channels.

Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #27,777

It will be $2 per channel per month. Because Google needs more money!

Google is on the verge of unveiling an à la carte subscription service for some of YouTube’s specialist video channels, to finance a broader range of content and add a second revenue stream to the digital video market leader.

The move, which has been in the works for months, could be announced as early as this week. It will apply to as many as 50 YouTube channels, people familiar with the plan say. Viewers will be able to subscribe to each channel for as little as $1.99 a month.

YouTube claims the lion’s share of that revenue. Brian Wieser at Pivotal Research estimates that YouTube’s ad revenues will rise from $1.3bn in 2012 to $2bn this year and Bernstein Research said on Friday that its revenues could exceed $15bn “in the next several years”, roughly matching CBS or Viacom.

YouTube told the Financial Times that it had “nothing to announce” regarding channel subscriptions but was “looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content, beyond the rental and ad-supported models we offer”.

YouTube’s channel partners include Howcast, World Wrestling Entertainment, The Onion and Machinima – a network for gamers. It is unclear which channels have signed on to the new service.

Cable and satellite channels, which traditionally rely on a dual revenue stream model, are eyeing YouTube’s subscription service to generate revenue from older shows and new programming, according to another person familiar with the project.

YouTube has moved away from its early days as a destination for user-generated content to professionally produced video that would not look out of place on television. In the past 18 months it has spent more than $200m on advances to dozens of start-up channels.

The new channels have helped expand YouTube’s audience to 1bn users who watch 6bn hours of video each month. Every one of Ad Age’s 100 largest brands has advertised on the site.

“We’re seeing a myriad of brands increasing their media spend,” said Robert Kyncl, global head of content partnerships for YouTube.

Time Warner, The Chernin Group, Bertelsmann, Discovery Communications and Comcast have all invested in companies that create or aggregate YouTube content.

Traditional media companies are also eyeing audiences flocking to individual YouTube channels: DreamWorks Animation, the company behind the Shrek movies, this week acquired Awesomeness TV, a “teen-focused” YouTube network in a deal that could be worth $117m if earnings targets are met.

Subscription YouTube channels will compete with the likes of Netflix, the streaming service with more than 30m subscribers, and Hulu, owned by Walt Disney, News Corp and Comcast, which said last week it had surpassed 4m.

Oh yeah, sauce: www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c27c9856-b3fd-11e2-b5a5-00144feabdc0.html (you may need to spoof your user agent to google bot to read it)

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doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 40 minutes later[^] [v] #414,027

Awesome, definitely better than seeing the same ad 15 times a day

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #414,028

(MATT WAS BANNED FOR EVADING A BAN)

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Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,038

nice get @OP

Syntax joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,042

Anyone is free to buy stock in Google.

Betting since Google does not really need the money the added income will be GOOD for Google stock, which is GOOD for Me.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 43 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,048

@previous (Syntax)
Shut up retard

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,049

@previous (F)

Anyone is free to buy stock in Google.

Betting since Google does not really need the money the added income will be GOOD for Google stock, which is GOOD for Me.

!KThEOwLwbU joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,051

@414,027 (doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ)

i never see ads with adblock+

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,052

Google is trying to take over the world.

Anonymous F replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,053

@414,051 (!KThEOwLwbU)
You are immoral and evil.

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 28 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,056

@414,051 (!KThEOwLwbU)
> i never see ads with adblock+

I have adblock but the printed ads on Google search of course show up with the links.

If adblock were to block those and of course it could, the data base wood be so HUGE it wood jam up your computer.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,057

@414,051 (!KThEOwLwbU)
> i never see ads with adblock+

!KThEOwLwbU replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,058

@414,053 (F)

There is optional functionality to show ads that are acceptable and I have that activated so lol

Anonymous F replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,059

@previous (!KThEOwLwbU)
How are YouTube's ads not acceptable? Bandwidth and storage for all those videos is expensive.

!KThEOwLwbU replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,061

@414,056 (Syntax)

!KThEOwLwbU double-posted this 13 years ago, 58 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,062

@414,059 (F)

I don't choose what counts as acceptable retard

Also they're annoying, i would deactivate the functionality if it showed youtube adverts

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,063

@414,027 (doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ)
I hope you're talking about the mobile version of YouTube, because Adblock takes care of that problem on Firefox and Chrome.

Anonymous F replied with this 13 years ago, 12 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,064

@414,061 (!KThEOwLwbU)
Horrible person.

!KThEOwLwbU replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,066

@previous (F)

Oh no the poor $200,000,000,000 company won't get to show ads to me, how grievous a blow i must be inflicting upon it

Anonymous F replied with this 13 years ago, 35 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,067

@previous (!KThEOwLwbU)
See the OP as for what you are doing.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,068

@414,064 (F)
This. People who use adblocker are clearly souless beasts.

Now bend over like a good consumer and accept 500 ads up the ass, you ungrateful fucks.

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,069

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Let us not forget Google owns Chrome n Chrome offers Adblock.

!KThEOwLwbU replied with this 13 years ago, 36 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,070

@414,067 (F)

I, personally, am enacting paywalls which may possibly go onto channels which I don't watch anyway. Awful!

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,072

@414,069 (Syntax)
Let us also not forget that Google does not own Firefox and Firefox also offers Adblock.

doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 13 years ago, 17 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,074

@414,063 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
i dont want to keep money from the content creators though

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,076

@414,072 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Given I use both Firefox n Google

Such is good. Best of all is the continued work to make it difficult for websites to see that WE use such.

The Board replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,079

@414,074 (doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ)

But you won't donate to Minichan? >:/

doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,081

@previous (The Board)
no but i would gladly watch an ad for minichan!

squeegee joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 11 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #414,082

> 2013
> still complaining about online ads.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 3 days later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #414,983

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #415,000

You have to pay to subscribe to channels now?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #415,011

@previous (L)
only certain channels

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #415,029

im ok with this