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[Dwarvenhobble]

Ok to add my $0.02 to the discussion.

If youtube would ask me for a decent price I'd likely get premium.

In the UK youtube premium is £11.99 a month so ~$16.50 a month.
That's £143.88 a year or $198 a year.

Compare that to Prime
£7.99 a month or £80 for 1 year on one go meaning it costs £6.58 per month.

Compare that to Netflix
£5.99 a month for basic
£9.99 a month for standard
£13.99 a month for the Ultra HD service

Youtube premium is literally more expensive that all but the 4K netflix package. If they dropped it to a more sane price I'd consider it but I know youtube isn't making £11.99 a month off me from viewing ads mostly because I've seen ad payout rates and while they can vary a lot depending on the providers and I'd wager $0.02 per 1 hour would have to be 1 hour of adverts not 1 hour of content and even then I'd say that a higher rate than some stuff pays out at. I mean sure a certain provider who I can't name was paying out $0.45 per 1 person who viewed the advert at one point but that's more of an anomaly normally a creator will be getting like if they're lucky $1 per 1,000 views. if they're not getting the premium ads.

 

[Gordon_4]

Ok to add my $0.02 to the discussion.

If youtube would ask me for a decent price I'd likely get premium.

In the UK youtube premium is £11.99 a month so ~$16.50 a month.
That's £143.88 a year or $198 a year.

Compare that to Prime
£7.99 a month or £80 for 1 year on one go meaning it costs £6.58 per month.

Compare that to Netflix
£5.99 a month for basic
£9.99 a month for standard
£13.99 a month for the Ultra HD service

Youtube premium is literally more expensive that all but the 4K netflix package. If they dropped it to a more sane price I'd consider it but I know youtube isn't making £11.99 a month off me from viewing ads mostly because I've seen ad payout rates and while they can vary a lot depending on the providers and I'd wager $0.02 per 1 hour would have to be 1 hour of adverts not 1 hour of content and even then I'd say that a higher rate than some stuff pays out at. I mean sure a certain provider who I can't name was paying out $0.45 per 1 person who viewed the advert at one point but that's more of an anomaly normally a creator will be getting like if they're lucky $1 per 1,000 views. if they're not getting the premium ads.

If you read through the Netflix plans, the 6 pounds per month is limited to a single active screen. 10 pounds gets you two active screens, and 14 pounds gets you four. YouTube Premium (to my knowledge) has no such limit. I have premium but its mainly so I can listen to stuff with the screen locked to help me sleep, use it for music in the car without adds and listen to my favourite stuff offline. It brings loads of value to me, but value is going to vary between person to person.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

If you read through the Netflix plans, the 6 pounds per month is limited to a single active screen. 10 pounds gets you two active screens, and 14 pounds gets you four. YouTube Premium (to my knowledge) has no such limit. I have premium but its mainly so I can listen to stuff with the screen locked to help me sleep, use it for music in the car without adds and listen to my favourite stuff offline. It brings loads of value to me, but value is going to vary between person to person.

I can see it being value for some people but also Netflix and Amazon are making shows and funding them. Youtube is while it tried it a bit with youtube Red shows that never really took off so it's youtube stuff almost entirely reliant on peoples ability / capacity to produce the stuff themselves then it might give them a bit of money.

Like I've looked into it Amazon's royalty payouts are better than youtube ad rates. Maybe with youtube premium it ends up about the same rates but when the royalty pay rate is 5 to 10 times that of youtube and that's not including stuff like upfront payments for series and stuff signing to be on Prime I really think youtube is kind of overpricing premium by a lot.