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AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year agoIt’s a lot more complicated than that because they are not entirely service providers, but service facilitators. They do not make the content, they merely distribute it, so they are only responsible for part of the service provided.
The result of this is that independent content creators often only upload their content to YouTube and not its competitors because it’s the most popular platform, which means that consumers are forced to go to YouTube in order to get the content from those independent creators, which makes the platform more popular, so more independent creators only upload there…
I would be inclined to agree with you if we had half a dozen competing video sharing services that creators all uploaded to, but as it is now, YouTube has an almost-monopoly and they’re squeezing hard because they can. If YouTube didn’t exist, it fould allow better services to exist. They don’t exist in a vacuum.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
Okay, but those independent content creators are often doing this trying to make money.
YouTube actually does have a pretty fair deal for “if you make us lose money, we won’t charge you” and “if you make us money, we’ll give you 55%.” That includes increased revenue to those creators if you subscribe.
Getting in the way of monetization here isn’t just hitting Google’s bottom line, it’s hitting those creators using Google’s platform as well.
I used ad blockers for YEARS until YouTube added a paid option and once I started using YouTube more (again) I went for that option quickly. I switched my mentally a few years ago to “if it’s not worth paying for, it’s not worth it” and that cleared a lot up for me in terms of priorities.
An aside but, I’m extremely annoyed with the pro-piracy, anti-paying game modders, and general anti-giving people money for the work they’re doing attitude that I’ve seen on Lemmy (and in gaming communities) recently. It’s like everyone wants to be paid a six figure salary when it comes to their life and then they want to get everything they enjoy on a computer for free.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
YouTube premium is as much as some professional streaming services. It’s an insane price. Creators get (depending on who you ask) somewhere between $0.003 and $0.018 per view with ads, so with 55% of premium going to creators ($7.7/mo), you’d have to watch between 428 and 2,567 videos per month. That’s a fucking LOT.
neatchee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The hell are you talking about? Premium is $13.99/mo, removed all ads, includes YouTube Music with all it’s licensed music, among other things. What exactly does your math represent? The amount of hours you’d need to watch to generate revenue equal to the cost of the service? That’s a ridiculous thing to base your calculation on. If you think watching ads is such a better value than Premium then watch the damn ads?
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m saying that they charge you way more money to avoid ads than they get from the ads because consumers have learned to expect such prices from professional streaming services, while the price has no actual justification other than that people are ignorant enough to pay it.