Seeing Red ...
Maybe the indie music creators should protest by switching to providing backing tracks on RedTube. Make a pleasant change from all that huffing and puffing (so I'm told).
Google says most of its video creators have signed up to new subscription contracts for its pay-to-view YouTube Red service, rather than have their videos pulled from public display at YouTube. YouTube Red is Google's ad-free subscription service, and rolls up both music and video for $9.99 a month. Google Play subscribers …
Google, take pistol, load, locate foot, pull trigger.
So this is going to be mainly things like music videos I presume. So the target market, kids.
So do kids pay £9.99 a month to watch these videos, or just move to rival for free? You know the same kids that expect stuff to be free and are happy to sell their souls, rather than pay for it?
Answers on a postcard to
Fantasy Land
America.
The current YouTube is staying as before, kids are going to keep watching. What is new is a paying ad-free service with a few more features.
Though I read in TechCrunch that Disney has refused the new terms, so there's that. Disney might still leave their videos on YouTube without monetizing them (no ads shown), otherwise they will disappear.
Though I read in TechCrunch that Disney has refused the new terms, so there's that. Disney might still leave their videos on YouTube without monetizing them (no ads shown), otherwise they will disappear.
As I understand it if you don't accept the new terms then your videos are automatically set to private. However Disney are probably big enough to object and not be ignored.
.. of Google destroying the very thing that made YouTube attractive.
It's already seriously messed up with clickable overlays and in-video advertising, so anything else it does to open up a gap in the market for a new entrant is IMHO only positive. There is only so much abuse people are prepared to tolerate, at some point you will overcome the reluctance to change and at that point all the pent up demand will stream to the next offer.
"clickable overlays and in-video advertising"
Err, what are these things you speak of? The combination of NoScript and Ghostery (for FireFox) block all advertisements (even the wait-5-seconds-to-skip ones) yet leave absolutely everything else functional, even the YouTube Centre Developer Build GreaseMonkey script.
>Err, what are these things you speak of? The combination of NoScript and Ghostery (for FireFox) block all advertisements
Haha! I used chromium the other day for some reason and thought "Ewch! What's that?!" For such trivial content, I can't believe people are willing to put up with so much non-content.
Jdownloader works too. I'd rather give them the tenner/month.