• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    How do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don’t even finish most of the videos I start watching there, and the ones I do, I’ll likely never watch again anyway. Subscribtion seems much more logical profit model to a company like that.

    • pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 days ago

      That’s fair. Nebula, Patreon, and Floatplane are the three “streaming” subscriptions I keep because much of the money goes straight to the creative involved.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      You don’t need to pay a subscription fee to watch YouTube. What are you even talking about?

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        20 days ago

        He was discussing options where people oppose both ads and subscriptions as methods of payment for consumed media.

        IMO YouTube Premium is the only subscription that I will probably never cancel as not only does it pay more to content creators than ad revenue does (per individual viewing), it directly financially supports the hundred-odd creators I enjoy (large and small).

        If the cost is too high for you to justify, you can band together with friends to split the costs of a Family Plan and/or do as I do and VPN back to my home country where the cost is significantly less than it is where I live now!