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Google describes YouTube Red as "the ultimate YouTube experience." The $9.99 subscription will cover all of YouTube products, meaning YouTube, YouTube Gaming, YouTube Kids, and the newly announced YouTube Music. The new service will let you watch YouTube videos without ads, save videos to watch offline on a mobile device, and play videos in the background on a mobile device.
There is a big catch about that $9.99 price: $9.99 will cover Android, desktop, and the mobile Web, but if you purchase a subscription via Apple's in-app purchasing on iOS, the price goes up to $12.99/month. Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all subscription revenue on its platform, and Google is passing that cost directly onto the consumer. (Most likely, customers will be able to bypass the higher price by paying $9.99 directly to Google and using the service across all platforms, including iOS, simply by signing into the app.)
YouTube won't talk about revenue sharing with content creators, but the company says it will pass on the "majority" of the revenue. In lieu of ad revenue, subscription revenue will be split up among creators by view time from Red subscribers. The subscription service changes things for YouTube creators, and anyone that doesn't agree to the new subscription terms will have their content set to "private" on YouTube.
darkfeline suggests the following specific points and topics for discussion:
1. iOS support costs extra, YouTube is passing the cost of Apple's cut directly to the consumer.
2. Up-to-date ad blockers and youtube-dl bypasses all YouTube ads to the best of my knowledge.
3. youtube-dl allows you to download videos for offline play.
4. How do you feel about exclusive paid content?
5. Who the heck is Pewdiepie and why does he make so much money? (How do you feel about YouTube "celebrities"?)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @08:53AM
"Who the heck is Pewdiepie and why does he make so much money? (How do you feel about YouTube "celebrities"?)"
Does it matter? I don't really think about him/her - he's around, and I stumble over his name, and his videos from time to time. I know who he is, but don't really know him. He is entirely peripheral to everything that I go to Youtube for.
Did you watch Serenity? (Dumb question, huh? Anyone who hasn't watched it and Firefly probably doesn't visit sites like this.) "You can't stop the signal!" Lonely half-retarded geek living at the edge of settled space, all alone, has to build a robot for company. But, he's connected to everything in the known universe. That's how I see Pewdiepie.
Posting AC from a computer I don't control - how many of you recognize me?
(Score: 2) by AnonymousCowardNoMore on Friday October 23 2015, @11:54AM
Sounds fun. I'm going with Phoenix666. Did I win?
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday October 23 2015, @05:45PM
I haven't seen any of that or him, but you described mystery science theatre, except there was a plot in that the protaganist was fed the worst movies his employers could find. (I am a fan of Gamera, myself..)
That model of content distribution, the "keep circulating the tapes", doesn't look like that is how this pewpewdie thing is supposed to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @06:37PM
Haven't watched it.