YouTube starts paid subscription service

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

That would kill them because people would simply move to one of several other video sites that do not charge for videos.They make a pretty good revenue from selling space to advertisers as well.Depending on how they set the system up it could work.The clincher will be getting viewers to want to pay for something that they had previously been able to view for free and I predict that some folks that have a large following may dislike the idea of charging their viewers.Especially when they already get money from advertisers and from selling their own products.FPS Russian for example he sells those shirts.


They are trying to money garb basically and I only see other companies like the ones that are listed in the article are going to bite the numerous private individuals/groups that have popular You tube channels will most likely simply move to another video site.If every video site decides to charge then some will simply choose to start their on site if they can manage to get a few sponsors which many of the very popular channels can easily do (some already do have sponsors). I predict that Youtube will be sorry in the long term with this plan of action especially if they require any channel with a certain amount of subscribers or higher to be subscribed.

Agreed.