YouTube Premium subscribers are reporting price hikes around the globe

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252145/youtube-premium-price-increase-europe-asia-middle-east-south-america

YouTube subscriptions are getting more premium (pricing).

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RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I hate youtube pricing as much as the next guy, but I feel the headline is the opposite of the first line in the article:

YouTube is telling Premium subscribers outside the US that they’ll be paying more for the service soon,

I thought youtube was sneakily changing prices.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

They would get shit on in court if they did that. Amazon tried with prime and was not successful.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Do creators make money from people that watch that have premium? That's the only way I'd consider it.

Who am I kidding, even if they do it's probably pennies. That's why they all have a Patreon and a sponsorship on every video.

Damn990099@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

From what few creators I've heard talk about their income, premium users watching earns them more money than ads. But both together are nowhere near as much a Patreon.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

It's a thousand times better (or more) to pay them directly.

People who justify this in this manner ("I'M pAyInG ThE CreaTOrs") are being used by Google, and are rubes.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Just give your favorite people money directly. It'll be 1,000 times (or more) than they get for a view or two a day.

Do not fucking pay YouTube.

notgold@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

But then I have to watch ads on my phone at work. YTP is just convenient. I hate it but it's convenient.

Winter8593@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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