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    Default YouTube is charging us for channels now

    http://www.youtube.com/channels/paid_channels
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/bu...arts.html?_r=0
    YouTube on Thursday detailed its plan to let producers sell paid subscriptions to their videos, creating a prominent new marketplace for programming on the Internet.

    The sprawling video Web site, a unit of Google, said the first paid video channels would appear online on Thursday afternoon, with subscription rates ranging from 99 cents to $7.99 a month. The early participants include Sesame Workshop, the producer of “Sesame Street,” which will stream full episodes of the children’s show to paying subscribers; Ultimate Fighting Championship, the mixed martial arts league, which will stream classic fights to fans; and the Young Turks, a progressive talk show.

    YouTube identified about 30 of these partners on Thursday and said other video makers would soon be able to set up their own paid channels using YouTube’s infrastructure. In a conference call for reporters, Malik Ducard, the director of content partnerships for YouTube, suggested that this “self-service feature” was the most important piece of the announcement.

    “As we roll out wider and as we roll out self-serve, you’ll see a lot of innovation,” he said, predicting that homegrown YouTube stars with fan followings would set up paid channels. YouTube’s plans for paid channels were widely reported this week, but the names of the participants were unknown then.

    For YouTube, the paid channel plan gives the creators of videos — some of whom have been dissatisfied with the payments from the advertisements attached to their videos — a new way to profit from their popularity. The plan also gives YouTube a new source of revenue, although there are widespread doubts about whether people will be willing to pay for channels.

    Mr. Ducard said viewers would pay with Google Wallet, the same system Google’s app store uses.

    Absent from the list of partners on Thursday were all of the biggest media companies in the United States, like the Walt Disney Company and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal.

    Instead there were start-ups like the Rap Battle Network, Baby First TV and Cars.TV. Some of the partners have tried to gain distribution on cable and satellite television systems but view YouTube as another appealing way to gain an audience.

    Several companies specializing in how-to videos are among the initial partners, including iAmplify, a producer of instructional workout videos. Another area of concentration is children’s programming: in addition to Sesame Workshop, there will be paid channels from National Geographic Kids and the Jim Henson Company. Henson will stream full episodes of shows like “Fraggle Rock.”

    Mr. Ducard said all the paid channels would have 14-day free trials and many would offer discounted yearly rates for subscribers. In letting the channel owners set their own prices, YouTube and the partners hope to find out quickly what price ranges are most successful.

    YouTube declined to say exactly how it would split the revenue from paid subscriptions with the producers of channels. It now keeps 45 percent of the revenue from the ads it sells and gives producers the rest. Mr. Ducard said the subscriber revenue split would be “very similar to the ad-support business.”

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    Silly youtube ...

    I hate the young turks, I hope no one subscribes ... so annoying.




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    Goddamit, I cant imagine having to pay for all the stuff I watch on popular channels. That feels like getting jagex'd, only this time I give a fuck about it :/

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    Just more ways for corporations to corner more markets and make more money. As if VEVO wasn't enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by l6bustank View Post
    Goddamit, I cant imagine having to pay for all the stuff I watch on popular channels. That feels like getting jagex'd, only this time I give a fuck about it :/
    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by [XoL] View Post
    Silly youtube ...

    I hate the young turks, I hope no one subscribes ... so annoying.
    I like some of their views and outlooks but sometimes they act *so* progressive and self-righteous. It makes watching it painful.

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    Thank you corporate Americans! They need to see more money flow from our pockets to theirs.

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    been watching TYT since 2006, i reallly REALLLLLLLLLLY HOPE they don't actually do this, this will destroy their subscribers base, people use youtube because ITS Free, and the main reason people watch their show is because ITS GOOD.

    I never subscribe or payed money to them but i like/comment on their videos, heck they stopped doing the extended clips, but the livestream is good..

    Really hope i don't have to pay money to watch them now :-(, and if i do then let it be reasonable like 0.10$ cent

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    Only a few channels will be paid-to-view. I think they are looking around 0.99c/month payment. To be honest, if a YouTuber that I watch has become subscription only, I'll be paying to view the content.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
    Only a few channels will be paid-to-view. I think they are looking around 0.99c/month payment. To be honest, if a YouTuber that I watch has become subscription only, I'll be paying to view the content.
    It's following a twitch like system

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    Quote Originally Posted by xtrapsp View Post
    It's following a twitch like system
    I thought Twitch basically was paying for no ads?

    Anyway, I expect most YouTubers wouldn't benefit from this. Very few people would be willing to pay, and would probably make more than if they kept it with ads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
    I thought Twitch basically was paying for no ads?

    Anyway, I expect most YouTubers wouldn't benefit from this. Very few people would be willing to pay, and would probably make more than if they kept it with ads.
    Yeah they might even make less money since their will be less viewers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raiden702 View Post
    Yeah they might even make less money since their will be less viewers.
    Exactly, i mean 0.99$ is barely any money, but what if you have to pay that for like 10 channels? thats 10$ a month just to watch youtube vids!? and what if you really like youtube (like me) and a lot of channels become pay to view, am not going to pay 20-30-50$ a month just to watch good vids :S:S.

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