@sourcerer @offtopic most of the time showing ads works faster than doing (e.g. sponsorship of a product by YouTube). In 100 people, at least 3 or 5 people will consider an ad, whereas a sponsorship will have to reach for wider base of people to be viable. It’s also easier to suck up companies (who wants to promote ads on YT) than doing something else entirely. But you see, it will eventually end up with, “hey the sells aren’t as we expected, we need to show you a product banner”, and so now ad blocker will kick in.
It’s really hard to make money in other way than ads. Maybe we can have a better, more visible way to do something, but still we might end up paying anyway. (In YT creators, if 200 people watch a video, only 1 or 2 will “consider” giving 3 to 5 dollars, at most 10 dollars, and YouTubers has to rely on Google to pay for their content at the end…because donation/tip doesn’t really work in a wider prospective.
Yeah, literally every company actually does it. Netflix for example. You definitely don’t need to pay if the content is available freely on the Internet. Or pay to one boss who have the largest (based on your taste) library, here that would be YT. If its not YT, and you find interesting things on Netflix then it’s Netflix and so on.
Having multiple services and paying for them is an issue from the very beginning of the Internet video streaming. The problem is that a service might not have content what you’re looking for. Not sure what exactly making them to not to have “everything”, but you gotta have to select one.
Actually YT premium here is 2x cheaper than cable TV subscription, with 40 to 50x more variety (cable TV has become worse, they no longer provide variety of channels now and you have to pay more to get them), and the worse part? It’s done by the government. And so the premium is kinda way to go here, otherwise pirating. Most ISPs here almost don’t care if you pirate content or not, because those who work at ISPs (underpaid) also do pirate video contents.
It kinda depends… at the end no service is free. Some manage pays by selling user data (e.g Micro$oft), some by selling their products at ridiculous prices (e.g Apple and stores data at Google cloud, in fact they are the biggest customer of GCP).
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