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Originally Posted by Lomac
I can't be the only one here that used to subscribe to car magazines back in the day. Paying for stuff used to be the norm. The problem most people have is that they expect top notch production quality, all the while feeling like they're not obligated to pay for it.
Film is expensive. I know; I used to work in the industry. Could they get away with using only GoPro's and cheap dSLR's? Yes, but the quality suffers and it's instantly noticeable, and then people will start bitching about that instead.
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This describes it perfectly, There is a huge demographic of young tech savvy people that don't feel they have to pay for convenience anymore. Back when the Iphone 4s came out almost every big name newspaper had an app for their company hence the decline in print media. Apps are free and convenient.
I can understand why people don't want to pay for something that was always free. But I can see them taking a new approach.
We call it "Freemium". Basically give the user a chance to look at a 1 minute clip of every episode so he/she can decide if they wish to pay for a subscription. This 14 day trial is bullshit cause what if next month they release a video you're really into but wait your 14 day trial is over. Candy Crush is a good example of freemium. it's a free app with in app purchase's of hearts/lives. You can play whenever but the app has borders which you can bypass with an in app purchase.
I don't believe in subscription based services. I'm part of a huge group, that's currently growing, that wants to pay for what they need and nothing more. In some cases it makes sense, like Netflix, but Youtube is a terrible place to implement it. You start by paying drive at 4$ then next thing you know your make up tutorials is now 4$ and on and on. An average user of youtube watches at least 4 youtubers that they come back for daily. so 16$ a month and then there is those odd videos where you watch like once a month but then you would have to pay2subscribe.
YouTube won't stay free forever. Sooner or later it'll be so unfiltered that they'll charge youtubers for space on their website(which they already somewhat are) and from there youtubers would charge subscribers. It's a big ecosystem filled with advertisements and endorsements.