YouTube Premium launches in the UK for £11.99 per month

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This works out as around £144 year. That is around the cost of an Amazon Prime subscription,which also includes Prime Video and Twitch Prime where you get free games and freebies,and the cost of a yearly standard Netflix subscription.

Also,regarding normal YouTube,if they want to close off music videos off with a massive paywall,it means its actually worse for many artists(especially not the big ones),since at least in my case I have had a look at bands and artists I would have never bothered to look at otherwise and bought their music. I would assume its the case for many people.

However,other alternatives like Bandcamp exist and at least the artists get more of the revenue AFAIK.

[Gerrard]

found this from mattaphobia (works with DanNerdCubed?)
its all very confusing as who gets what. plus theres MCN fees and other fees to worry about too. you wont know until a few months time when they start paying people for this months views.

This is what I was interested in, so looks like I am much better off sticking with Patreon. NerdCubed has stated that he gets more from Patreon and Twitch now than YouTube.

This works out as around £144 year. That is around the cost of an Amazon Prime subscription,which also includes Prime Video and Twitch Prime where you get free games and freebies,and the cost of a yearly standard Netflix subscription.

That's a good point. With the Twitch Prime sub, I believe you can still support the creators you regularly watch, albeit once every few months if you are spreading it around.

[Spud1]

I am not in the slightest bit interested in add free music videos on youtube - which this is clearly for - but I would happily pay £2-£3 a month to remove adds on the other videos I do watch/subscribe to...hell even a twitch style system where I could sub to a creator and give them a small fee to just remove adds on their own videos as there are only 2-3 people I really watch regularly.

as it stands at £11.99 a month its crazy expensive and i'll just put up with the ads.

[big_hairy_rob]

Also Meh. Won't be paying this.

I just wanted to add that I just love how the BBC content through BBC account appears to generates Add revenue on youtube...

[mikerr]

BBC might have ads because youtube are making it difficult for channels to choose to be ad free, see Blender foundation's problems when they refused ads:

https://www.blender.org/media-exposu...eos-worldwide/

[edit]appears youtube have now allowed them to remainad-free ... but this has been going on since December....

[rich835]

Google need to sort out their issues with Amazon and Microsoft first. The Amazon Fire Youtube app has been withdrawn, and I think there's still no official Youtubue Windows 10 app. So this is a very limited service, clearly targetted at Android and Google home devices. Surprise surprise.

[peterb]

I am not in the slightest bit interested in add free music videos on youtube - which this is clearly for - but I would happily pay £2-£3 a month to remove adds on the other videos I do watch/subscribe to...hell even a twitch style system where I could sub to a creator and give them a small fee to just remove adds on their own videos as there are only 2-3 people I really watch regularly.

as it stands at £11.99 a month its crazy expensive and i'll just put up with the ads.

My in built adfilter takes care of most of those! I find my brain is pretty effective at ignoring the content of ads until the skip option appears! It’s a pity the ad isn’t long enough to allow the kettle to boil though!

[Xlucine]

Google need to sort out their issues with Amazon and Microsoft first. The Amazon Fire Youtube app has been withdrawn, and I think there's still no official Youtubue Windows 10 app. So this is a very limited service, clearly targetted at Android and Google home devices. Surprise surprise.

Why do you need an app to get to youtube on windows 10?

[Ttaskmaster]

Why do you need an app to get to youtube on windows 10?

Same reason you need one to get it on Android - "Because, Apps"?

[Stu C]

More expensive than Netflix... I'm out.

[Biscuit]

I find it bizarre that some of the best commercial minds in the world got together, looked at their offering, looked at the market and said, "£11.99, yeah that sounds spot on, we'll definitely compete with the big boys in modern online media by charging more than them with barely any real user-end perks or promise for consistent quality content"

You want to support a creator; drop them a dollar or two via patreon, buy a product through their store, or utilise their affiliate links.

[karelamella]

When it will be launched in Germany?