Youtube Red is failing, and will continue to fail until they decide to care about improving the quality of their several original series and the incentives for people to subscribe.
You want to get rid of ads? Get AdBlock. Want to watch your favorite Youtubers on their own high-production-value shows? Too bad, because their all either terrible or painfully unoriginal. Want to watch videos or listen to music offline? Well, there are literally thousands of third-party sites that llow you to do this already. Of course, it's illegal, but when has that stopped anybody on the internet?
The whole thing stinks of a knee-jerk, short-sighted scheme to profit from the movie/show streaming phenomenon.
Jack Morris
Only thing I ever considered it for was background playback of videos on Android, but there's an Xposed module for that
Charles Martin
offline videos through the app is pretty nice
considering it's basically just an extra feature with Google music it's not bad
Gabriel Nguyen
google fails to understand that youtubers aren't talented. That's why they aren't on TV. I'm not gonna pay a monthly fee to watch some people who weren't good enough to be on TV do gameshow-tier garbage
Isaac Flores
youtube is failing in general
Easton Sanchez
To fun to see some """famous""" youtuber embarrass themself when having to interact with people outside their autistic to 12 year old pandering environment who actually are entertainers.
Christian Young
I don't even know what youtube red is
Wyatt Bell
its basically for the kids and moms that let their children watch youtube allday long
Hunter Hernandez
there are different standards for entertainment nowadays. People who are good on youtube are good in that amateurish environment. I am not expecting network or cable TV tier stuff on Youtube. It's basically an amateur entertainer's network. I would pay good $$$ to see people who were trained to be entertaining... like people on TV/movies. YT stuff wouldn't cut it in hollywood.
Parker Reyes
>Youtube Red is failing COUNTER ARGUMENT... What is Youtube Red?
Kevin Scott
John Lajoie got started on YouTube and is now a main character on the TV show "the League". It's pretty funny, honestly, and he's kind of the best part.
Jaxson Walker
It's Youtube Netflix, I guess. Basically a bunch of YouTubers have their own "shows", you can only watch them by paying $10 a month. You also get offline videos and background play on videos, but it's not really worth it.
Jayden Lee
>Youtube Red Seriously the worst name for a service I've ever heard. What the fuck is red supposed to imply?
Connor Morales
That show ended though
Nathan Evans
Ten dollars a month? For (youtub)e-celebrities?
Jackson Ramirez
What's it called?
Jacob Hernandez
it's in a bundle with google music
Josiah Diaz
I use Adblock and just whitelist all the channels I want to support.
Sebastian Johnson
youtube still lacks what many would consider to be basic features. If they wanted to charge for stuff like music playback with a phone screen turned off then they should have un-fucked that years ago.
Thomas Price
What possible channels could you want to support
Brandon Brooks
Well then, allow me to have this: >Paying for music
Bentley Gonzalez
What if they just set up a tip jar or something.
I actually believe YouTube styled celebrities are a version of the future YouTube red is just Hulu or Netflix. I mean smaller studios or individuals who charge for content rather than a blanket service like red. As anons pointed out most of it is shit, so if you can donate or contribute on a point by point case you might have an interesting system. PayPal and kickstarter and patreon are precursors to that, like yahoo and ask jeeves to google. Look at porn artists who pull in 5-10k a month for doing pretty faces and ladyboys.
It can work, digital entertainment, but like any camwhore knows, you have to have the talent to pull people in. And if you're good at something why would you do it for free?
Ayden Johnson
>whitelisting anybody You stupid cuck. Ads are for the dumbass plebs.
Evan Baker
Monetizing youtube is stupid. Google already pulls in piles of money just in ad revenue from people who don't know what adblock is. Red is a fucking joke...you're going to charge me to watch annoying ecelebs? Fuck you Google.
What's interesting is how late to the game they are. Fucking AMAZON beat them to the punch, like holy shit.
Blake Long
>What if they just set up a tip jar or something. Only benefits small timers. Past a certain point of subscribers, YTers make more from adsense than they would from patreon.
Andrew Sanders
I imagine Google makes so much off ads that they don't really care if their userbase gets paid for uploading videos. They're literally making money off the entire internet, I imagine YouTube is a very small part of what keeps Google running. Right, but even freaking Facebook let's users trade monies for memes and shit. Creating micro economies keeps the small fish coming back. Red is just setting up another clunky service with shit original content, a tip jar lets everybody throw a couple dollars around and boost the overall activity on the site.
Austin Johnson
Couple of small car channels that don't have many subs. I learned a lot about prepping and painting cars from both of them so not blocking ads is a fair trade.