When you have a billion viewers a month and climbing you want to be open to all possibilities.
The Pre-rolls ads are one way to do it. Traditional media companies are creating content specific for YouTube audiences. Outside players are buying and financially supporting some of the upper level content providers.
I like HipHughes History and education video bloggers in general. I would seriously think about supporting the content that I like. There would be no cat videos but plenty of what I consider to be good stuff. If the bulk of the subscription money goes to the content providers and a chunk to YouTube for administrative and service costs I'm okay with that.
Except I can't get it confirmed. What has got some folks itchy is that (without confirmation from Google is a rumor that content creators will be able to have paid subscribers view there content.
Mashable says that the Financial Times says that it there are Beta subscription trails. I can't view the Financial Times site because they have a pay wall and you have to subscribe to have access to limited content.
Erf.
The Huffington Post story is actually from Reuters the video subscriptions but cites no sources; just
Slashdot say yeah, there gonna do it starting citing a post from IT World who cites the Financial Times.
Which is behind a pay way.
There is not, as of this date and time of this post, an official statement from Google or YouTube blogs. It is doesn't mean that it isn't true or there is a valid reason to question having subcriptions.
But where is the beef in the news stores about the topic?
Cuz I have questions? Like it it gonna be like cable? Of which I do not have or want? Can I pay one time per espisode or is it a monthly subscription? Do I have to buy a set number of channels not to have advertising. How about a better job of allowing me to discover videos that I want to know about.?
Is is going to be reconstituted crap from broadcast channels? What about the corporate content providers? Will they get to set their own price?
Questions without answers at this time.
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