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AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year agoYouTube 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.
neatchee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are describing supply and demand. Not much more to it than that. Demand for ad free services is greater than demand from advertisers. What’s your point?
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why are you assuming that supply and demand is automatically an ethical system for pricing? Just look at American medication prices.