Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers
elgordio@kbin.social 3 months agoWhile YouTube doesn’t commission, much, content it does store disproportionately more data. A streaming site has maybe 1,000,000 hours of content. That amount of content is uploaded to YouTube every day. It’s a totally different business model.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And, I don’t think I should be the one paying for that.
They should charge minor storage fees to the creators and uploaders. You pay to put your content up there if people watch it you get paid back as many multiples as necessary. It would be a fantastic method to reduce the amount of trash video stored up there that nobody ever watches.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
It turns out creators don’t want to pay for the storage.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d say we’re at an impasse, but if I don’t buy premium and I don’t watch ads in their content, they’re not getting paid.
If they paid a pittance to keep their storage and it pushed their quality up and push the price of premium down more people would watch and they’d make a hell of a lot more money.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
But let’s be honest, you’d probably block their ads if they self hosted.
BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It would be a hard-sell these days to charge someone to gamble on whether or not their content is going to get any views. My guess is that the conent economy et al is like an iceburg, it takes a lot to float it but only a little bit is worth seeing the light of day. Ie, you have to host a ton of garbage to be able to sift out the gems.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hard sell maube but they’re the only game in town. I suspect it’s not a matter of if but when.