• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’d pay for YouTube premium if t wasn’t more expensive than HBO. It’s ridiculous. Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.

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      2 years ago

      lol zero production costs because they’re not a production studio, genius, lmao. they do have a shit ton of overhead costs though - look into it instead of acting like it costs nothing to be the largest video hosted site on the planet.

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        2 years ago

        Keep 720p only for users who upload crap and aren’t generating revenue and keep 4k for the channels who are uploading quality content. I’ve seen a podcast uploading hours of content in 4k. That is incredibly costly to stream to people.

        I’m not going to pay for a service that is so wasteful with their income and then they want more.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah they just need bandwidth for a billion people no biggie, thank you for your expertise

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      Isn’t their issue more hosting costs and not production costs? Unless they start telling people they can’t upload videos (exception being copyright of course) Youtube greatly outpaces the storage costs of other social media sites.

      They probably still store more than other video-hosting sites too.

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        their problem is probably paying $2 billion a year or some crazy number for nfl football.

    • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      A part of your YT Premium payment goes directly to creators that you watch based on your watch time. That is their content expenses just like HBO for making new shows.