I'll agree that it looks like it'll be a rocky road at best. Youtube's wanted to step into a TV-like situation for a long time. The whole "shows" system was the start of that, in my opinion.
If the Youtube we know today stays the same, and you have actual TV shows going into the premium stuff, then huzzah! The internet is just directly competing with cable as it's done for a while now. If the Youtube we know today splits in a weird cash grab of people trying to jump on the premium train (which is somewhat what happened with Skyrim)... then we're in for a shitstorm.
For the positive, at least Google/Youtube's done a decent job of listening when things go badly and are willing to scrap ideas. So if it's as awful as possible, we can move on
I agree that TV shows would be great. Also, good reporting and news stuff, or name comedians coming online to do videos. I mean, now that more money is coming in with subscriptions, they can totally afford to have huge production costs, ergo elevating the amount of things they can do with their videos.
I'll agree that it looks like it'll be a rocky road at best. Youtube's wanted to step into a TV-like situation for a long time. The whole "shows" system was the start of that, in my opinion.
If the Youtube we know today stays the same, and you have actual TV shows going into the premium stuff, then huzzah! The internet is just directly competing with cable as it's done for a while now. If the Youtube we know today splits in a weird cash grab of people trying to jump on the premium train (which is somewhat what happened with Skyrim)... then we're in for a shitstorm.
For the positive, at least Google/Youtube's done a decent job of listening when things go badly and are willing to scrap ideas. So if it's as awful as possible, we can move on
I agree that TV shows would be great. Also, good reporting and news stuff, or name comedians coming online to do videos. I mean, now that more money is coming in with subscriptions, they can totally afford to have huge production costs, ergo elevating the amount of things they can do with their videos.
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