• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
          91·
          3 months ago

          I get what you are saying, but the balance is off.
          YT premium costs (edit) more than a streaming service per month.
          There are no industry leading movies or series released exclusively on YouTube.
          YouTubes benefits of premium is “not being delivered ‘skip after 5 seconds’ live streams” as an ad that will play indefinitely (or at least for hours).
          Also, streaming services provide much better series discovery. Ie, find a show you like and easily discover the start of that series, then binge watch the entire series in order.
          YT premium is basically a “play next” queue, 1080p, and no ads.
          It doesn’t (AFAIK) support creators any more. It’s literally just a fee to not-be-inconvenienced, and it’s not great at that

          • auzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            Yep… i actually looked at Subscribing. But… It’s basically mostly amateur hour and the subscription costs a huge amount.

            Even worse, I don’t believe creators even get revenue until they exceed sufficient subscribers. So most people are actually paying youtube to put benefit from other people’s video’s which they have no involvement in.

            • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              When did this change? AIUI creators got a larger cut of YouTube premium views compared to ad share.

              • auzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                3 months ago

                Not sure if its subscribers or views… But, I tried to monitize one or two of my videos, and it wouldn’t let me because I don’t think I had enough views or something.

        • BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          Wait, are we acting like YouTube isn’t profitable now? If I’m going to spend money on videos it’ll be a content creator owner platform like Nebula

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      231·
      3 months ago

      Is that what they are trying to do? Push crap ads and try to kill adblock to get a little extra user share to pay for yet another subscription?

      PS: let me add that I also watch TV and the balance between quality of content and ads and their placement is much better (yes, some countries are worse than others with this). I don’t know what they are doing in youtube ads, but it’s anti-human (not just the ads, but the design too: super slow loading, tricks you into clicking the wrong content). Like they don’t want you to “pay” by watching ads, they want to torture you until you subscribe, go away or get adblock.

    • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 months ago

      It’s only a matter of time until the premium users get ads. Just like Netflix, and cable TV before that. You will inevitably wind up paying to be advertised to.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Google makes enough money evading taxes already. Not gonna help them make more.

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’d pay for YouTube Premium Lite if it didn’t state “Note: Ads will still show on music content and outside of videos.” and if that’d make them stop harvesting all my data.