Would You Pay For Ad-Free YouTube?

This is a very interesting subject, especially to RT. Many people, including myself, have been willing to pay for sponsorship and have seen the benefits it has. I know for me personally, I do not mind paying due to spending a large amount of time watching content on this site and not wishing to wait for ads.

Surprised there isn't as big a backlash as there could be regarding this news. Generally there seems to be a trend, such as in Destiny, where people who are not getting all content available believe they are being ripped off.

By the sounds of it there seems to be a focus on YouTube's behalf to help the producers of the content. Is strange in some cases with content but if YouTube can really get this up and going then they might be bigger in the market that Netflix, Hulu and Crunchyroll operate in and could potentially takeover.

Going to be interesting few months ahead with this. Thanks for reporting on it :D

I feel like anybody who is annoyed enough by the ads to pay to get rid of them, is probably already using a free ad-blocker. I think most people who subscribe to this will do it for the exclusive content and/or the offline viewing.

So is this the big content partnership yall have been talking about? I would be annoyed at this, but I've been an RT sponsor for 9 years now haha

I don't watch a lot on youtube so it may be a while before I would think about paying for it mainly because I am a sponsor on the Rooster Teeth website and watch everything here not on youtube.

roosterteeth sponsor > YouTube re

Or as I call it, ad block plus for free

Honestly, I use an adblock plus on youtube because when you're trying to watch a playlist of minute-long videos, with headphones where your ears get blasted due to volume shenanigans during or after a video has even ended, not to mention BEFORE, minute long ads are absolutely unacceptable. However, on the same token, if the advertisements were non-intrusive on the videos, I would be fine with it. Also for the same reason why I brought sponsorship to RT, if it was something more along the lines of 20-15$ for 6 months and perhaps 7-5$ for a month, i'd at least... consider it. 10$ is a bit much for a poor college student, and I don't even watch anything on youtube anymore that would be important to that service, save for Lazer Team. It's a matter of perspective I suppose.

While it does in theory seem a lot like Netflix or Hulu (more like Hulu, since there's still a free Hulu), like it was said in the video, they're two different things. And, this for some reason does seem a bit like the antithesis of Net Neutrality, though it kinda isn't. All in all, it's not an evil thing for them to do.

In the end, early-2015, no-job me would have said "Fuck this." Recent me says "Who the fuck cares, it's 10 bucks." That said, roosterteeth.com accounts for just under half my daily videos, with the other half being YouTube, so I'm not sure if it'd be worth it.

So does this mean Lazer Team won't be available to watch by sponsors on the RT website?

I probably wouldn't pay any $$$$$ for this option i watch most of your content on your sites i do however watch certain youtubers ( i will see what happens in years to come)

Ehh, I likely won't buy into this myself. I only really watch RT content on YouTube, if I don't watch it here first, plus I'm already a sponsor here. If the few other creators I watch on YouTube went down this path I doubt I'd follow them, because I believe it wouldn't be that hard to find a replacement in the wide pool that is YouTube.

That said, it is reasonable decision by YouTube, and hopefully it pays off for creators and viewers who enjoy it, but I'll likely pass on it myself

Hmm.

As someone that doesn't run an ad block program - because I'm just not asshole enough to hurt content creators doing so it seems - I could be tempted by an ad free YouTube. Most anything I watch tends to be one off videos or music videos or playlist such as the Lets Play Worms playlist I've got open in a different tab right now though, so the exclusive content side of it has no meaning for me. So 10 bucks for just the ad free/offline part is way more than I'd pay.

Be interesting to see where they go with it though.