The main issue with YouTube premium is the price, I can't imagine that they're making anywhere near $14 a month from showing me ads that I never click on. I'd love to see a breakdown, including how much is subsiding free users, how much is going to creators, and how much is going into the pockets of shareholders.

I think like most if not all of the people I know would easily pay $5 dollars for premium

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I signed up through Pakistan and got the family plan for $4 AUD a month.

Been going for a couple of years now and no problems.

Also the big benefit is YouTube music, so I don't need my spottyfi account anymore either

It's actually great value, I never watched YouTube for entertainment before I got it, now I get to watch people do way too big deep dives on subjects I would normally find boring, but because they go too far it gets interesting

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’ll get an email shortly kicking you off that plan, they’re just working through the list. Had it for 4 years, signed up quite a few others as well. Everyone has been booted over the last 2-3 months.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Well that's a shame, I don't see myself buying it at full price.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I don't know the breakdown but I know that creators generally earn much more per premium view vs normal view.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

YouTube and creators make significantly more from premium users than ad-supported. But I’m okay with that. I’m paying for a service, that service works (mostly) great. I get essentially Spotify and ad-free YouTube for that price, and thus get far more bang for my buck than a Max subscription or a Hulu subscription or whatever.

A lot of the features of YouTube Premium (ad-free, downloads, offline music, background play and PiP on mobile, video queues, etc.) are likely available from other YouTube clients, but given how much I use the service I don’t mind paying for it. Especially since using other clients sucks for the creators (unless you’re personally subscribing to everyone’s Patreon, and I don’t know about you but there are a few channels I subscribe to on Patreon and FAR more that I just…watch).

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 3 points 2 months ago

Reach out to friends and fam! We do a family plan which I think comes out to $4-5 a month per account.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Even if there was a single ad that I would want to click on, ever, I would still just simply look up the site instead. The only reason I've clicked an ad in the past 20 years was when I did it accidentally. They know that (as in, they know that the click ratio will be low) and I'm sure their goal is just for you to see the ad.