OkaYoutube Premium
50 USD per month? Are they crazy?
For YouTube TV, not YouTube Premium. YouTube TV is actual live TV channels, like cable.
DipsIs this a normal price for TV in the US? In Europe it is more like 10-20€, which is why 50$ sounds out of this world ridiculous.
Pretty normal in a package yeah. The cheapo packages are like 15-30 USD
If anything, that is low. Cable bills can get truly outrageous depending on what you add. You get an NFL or MLB subscription, a few premiums like HBO and you can have a $200/month cable bill.
DopamineDeficientjesus. brb recovering from my aneurism
If there were no ads at all I’d instantly subscribe. But I don’t pay for anything that has ads. It’s either free with ads, or paid with no ads.
This isn’t YouTube Premium; this is YouTube TV which is an entirely different product. YouTube Premium is like $13/mo. and cheaper for students.
And really it’s just saying it’s tv without physical cables which arguably is still incorrect I guess if you consider internet cables
throwmeinthekbinI don't. I consider it a series of tubes.
567PrimeMoverA cable is a tube but for electrons
Technically it’s more like a Highway. The majority of the electrons are traveling on the outside
A highway is a tube but for cars
A car is a tube but for people
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOXThe tube people will destroy us all.
Except if you use optical fibre, in that case it’s photons
Hold up, it’s not a big truck?
xthexderWoah, what year is it?
2006 baby
Ted, is that you?
Sadly, its going up to like $19 a month :(
ubermeistersThere’s got to be a tax on stupidity somewhere in the world
No it’s not. It’s going up by $2 to $13.99/mo. Considering how much time I spend on YouTube, I feel like it’s worth it.
Unless you know a way to decouple youtube from youtube music, im not wrong. I would happily pay that price for it too.
ayyndrewThat’s because you’re looking at it in the iOS app, so they add ~30% to make up for Apple’s cut of in app purchases. If you buy it directly through the YouTube website, it will be cheaper
Thank you! Ill check that now bc these ads are driving me up the wall
squidzorzI think I’ve seen news rumors that they’re testing an ad-free YouTube-only plan that doesn’t include YouTube Music.
But the reason you’re seeing $18.99/mo is because of the Apple tax. Go to www.youtube.com/premium to see the actual price.
shanghaibebopThis.
YouTubeTV carries network channels that directly charge YouTube TV carriage fees. Those channels charge a pretty hefty fee regardless of who you get the channels through.
variety.com/…/pay-tv-true-cost-free-1234810682/
This is not YouTube premium.
nexguyYoutubeTV is $73 per month. What is $50?
YouTube TV used to be $50/mo until June 2020, so I presume that this is an old meme.
aphonefriend50$ a month and you can bet your ass they will still shove ads down your throat eventually.
Surely they’d let you pay more to keep from having to see those ads.
genoxidedev1$50/month + 2.5% of every previous months' payment
Quick, someone in marketing promote this man!!!
Start with 1 cent per month. What a deal!
Then double it every month. 2 cents, 4 cents, 8 cents? Still cheap as hell! And you can cancel after 24 months.
Sure, I have $16,777,216.00 budgeted for tv.
No. This is LITERALLY just cableTV. TBS, USA, TLC, MTV, etc. you’re just paying YouTube vs Comcast for access to the channels.
BlaiddIt’s just cable tv, it has normal tv commercials.
They do, but not from Google. Google simply takes the cable feeds and streams them. Any adds are from the cable feed.
I have it because it’s the only service I could find that streams my local OTA and PBS stations.
Couldn’t you just use an antenna?
Because … O(ver) T(he) A(ir)?
I’m near Detroit and pick up ~50 channels with a $20 antenna.
spidermanbro you pirate tv channels?
Sure. If you don’t mind watching Wheel of Fortune and Ellen all the time.
I get, over the air, in HD, free, with an antenna, the major networks and their subchannels, movie channels, retro channels, pbs, game show channels, scifi channels, comedy channels, local channels, etc. Free.
But I don’t mind watching wheel of fortune.
I’m just messing with ya. We used to have an antenna and those shows were on all the time just because of our schedules
This is the best way, but it doesn’t work in every scenario. At my last apartment, I was basically unable to get OTA channels. Too much of the sky was blocked, and I think radio interference from a nearby military base didn’t help.
In my current condo it works mostly well, but I do get some skipping and drops that can be annoying during a long game.
I live in a hole on the ground. Almost literally.
PrimalAnimistI cancelled cable a few years ago and now use YouTube TV. I love it because I can record everything, never run out of DVR space. I can run 5 tvs with different shows on each. I can watch TV anywhere on my phone and laptop. I can stop on one device and pick back up on another. Well over 100 channels now (but I only really watch a handful). Every channel also has an on-demand section. Like TCM has what’s live but also a huge library to stream from.
I have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Peacock, Max…but if I had to just use one service, it would be YouTube TV. It follows me, and is not tied to my house. If I go visit another state, it will even switch to the local news wherever I am. It has, by far, the most content in one spot for one price.
thing that got me w/ YTV, and got it ultimately canceled was trying to share it w/ a family in another state. that doesn’t fly, which was a huge bummer.
Was this a few years ago? This is no longer true.
The past 3 years, I have shared the service with 3 friends, one of which lives in a different state and we have had no issues. You just add them to your Google Account as “family” and they login their own devices.
There is some weirdness where YouTubeTV gives you 5 family shares, but only 3 total streams (outside your home’s WIFI) can be active at once. That’s why I limited the sharing to 3 total.
You should givr it another try!
I randomly swap family members and friends out sometimes, too. It’s pretty sweet being able to share all of my apps, books, games and yt.
I used it when it was new for a little while. I liked it as far as a TV service goes but I’m kind of over live shows at this point.
Holy cow how much do you spend on media a month, I’m over here thinking the $20 usenet I paid for the year was too much, but was debating on getting sling tv for the parents, right now I have an antenna connected to my plex server but it’s not the easiest to use
Well I think I pay something like $95 for YouTube TV +Max. Netflix is like 12? I’m on a sweet Spotify+Hulu for 9.99 promo for years, but I think it’s going up to $10.99. Disney is like $9. It may seem like a lot, but that’s all I spend on entertainment. I don’t eat outside the home regularly. I don’t go see movies at theaters. I don’t buy things like DVDs and stuff.
And to be fair, it’s for the household. We’re poly so there’s a variety of interests. And if you divide that by 5 adults, it’s cheap.
I use YouTube the most of all streaming services. Yet I don’t understand why there isn’t an affordable easy to use option, that includes no ads and a high CPM for creators.
My understanding is YouTube premium, doesn’t highten the payout to creators, but rather just substitutes the dirt poor ad revenue per impression.
It actually does get higher revenue for content creators for the majority of your creators.
It’s based around your watch time and something like 50%? of your subscription split across the channels you watch.
Ad impressions pay very little on YouTube.
iAmTheTotYou're misinformed. I watch many creators who have said in their own words that Premium subscriber views make more money for them.
All of the creators I watch say don’t bother because they just get demonitized from both and the money just winds up going to copyright trolls anyways.
Gawd yeah I get Hulu Live, and it costs $80+ a month… the video constantly drops or the image becomes static. And I’ve never been bombarded with more jardiance musicals and balance of nature ads in my life. It’s just non stop stuff I will never ever buy.
ZerushFor TV better, 100% free
