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YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing (variety.com)
YouTube is removing the paywall for its original programming. Starting next year, the company will move to make all of its new original programming available for free for anyone to watch. "With the change, YouTube is moving toward more mainstream celebrity-driven and creator-based reality fare, while it will continue to greenlight scripted productions," reports Variety. From the report: Until now, YouTube Originals have mainly been available on its YouTube Premium subscription service, although YouTube also has expanded the shows and movies it makes available on an ad-supported basis. The company calls the new YouTube Originals strategy its "Single Slate," which will combine ad-supported and subscription VOD programming initiatives that by 2020 will provide free windows for all YouTube users. Some original productions will remain behind the paywall, including season 2 of "Cobra Kai," an offshoot of the "Karate Kid" movies. Moving forward, YouTube Premium will include early access to original, exclusive content as a reason to pay for the service. YouTube has faced stiff competition in trying to lure paying customers with original content against the likes of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, which spend far more on content. "As we look to 2019, we will continue to invest in scripted programming and shift to make our YouTube Originals ad supported to meet the growing demand of a more global fanbase," a YouTube rep said in a statement. "This next phase of our originals strategy will expand the audience of our YouTube Original creators, and provide advertisers with incredible content that reaches the YouTube generation."
If you're a potential screenwriter or aspiring actor, there has never been a better time to get your stuff produced. If you like watching niche stuff, now is also your time. Enjoy.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I got curious about the new YouTube originals and I got a trial subscription. There is an amazing video editing tool that allows you to take two different films and the AI automatically detects the characters in the films and allows you to make a new story out the combined characters. It uses and advanced type of interpolation, NLP, and sentiment analysis to pick out all the possible attitudes and positions of the characters. You can then supply your own script which it will automatically apply to the extracted characters and create an entirely new movie. I loaded up a few films and ultimately I decided to create a quest-like movie using the script of the princess bride using the animated characters Gru and Godzilla
It's paid for with the money they take from lobbying groups for banning and shadow banning conservatives online:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/08/18/2021220/google-explains-why-it-banned-the-app-for-gab-a-right-wing-twitter-rival
They are not required to carry Nazi propaganda.
There's good money in shadow banning conservatives? Well... shit, we should be doing more of it! Isn't that what a conservative would say? You know, free markets and all that...
You only needed to post this troll comment once.
It's unlikely there's money in banning conservatives. They can bring in ad revenue from those videos and views, so there's no good business reason to drive them off. Can you prove your allegation?
That Youtube favors it's content over theirs to a chorus of UNFAIR.
Youtube inserts commercials right in the middle of a person talking and it always pisses me the hell off... The commercials are short, but it's still effing annoying.
If they can't find a decent place to put their commercials, and they insist on monetizing it, then they should reject the video, and ask the uploader to insert blackouts where commercials can be put before reuploading it before it will be allowed to remain up.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
This should be a good change. One good show from YouTube is a SciFi called Origin. On any other network or Netflix is would probably be reasonably popular but no know even knows it exists because its on YouTube Premium.
REEEEEE KNOT-SEES
Killing Nazis is a proud American tradition. Tissue?
Hang on, you can get paid for punching nazis? Talk about mixing business and pleasure!
How is advertising-supported TV going in the US?
In Australia, the TV networks are circling the plug hole (anticlockwise, of course).
Quality has gone through the floor - lots of "reality TV" and re-runs of imports.
15 minutes of advertising per hour, not including the product placement and travel, home improvement, etc shows that look more like infomercials.
Cable was super-expensive here (and still has adverts), so we were mostly moving to piracy and a bit of TIVO-ing until Netflix and the like arrived.
So you-tube heading in that direction does not sound like a good thing.
Glad to see the internet turned out to be so much more substantive and intellectual than television. Truly revolutionary times we live in.
So, it's not so much about users uploading content, it's about YouTube suddenly acting like they're a content producer and they're going to make 'original' drivel? So we'll call it UsTube instead?
Wow, are these companies running out of a way to be what they started as? Seems like Facebook, YouTube, and everyone else are suddenly having delusions of producing video content.
And more garbage reality TV will be produced, and nobody will actually give a fuck.
I have created plenty of content...for a demonized youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If I only had 200 more subscribers. Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
The good news is that with all the streaming services creating "Original" content, we'll soon be at peak actor employment. Hopefully the new "studios" will actually create something of value, I'm not holding my breath though.
The bad news: Your time at restaurants will go up significantly as no more wait staff will be available in NYC and LA.
It's not free if it's ad supported. Time is money. Where do people come up with these headlines. Nothing Alphabet does is free. Shun them.
Dear Microlimp: I give you 2 valid product keys for win7 and you reject both of them. Piss off you wankers!!!
If your platform requires advertisements it is dead to me. The internet revolution has provided communication that is cheap, universal, and most significantly, two way. The best content is produced by individuals who either share their work freely or use a patronage model for revenue. These people have genuinely diverse opinions and most importantly are not trying to sell you anything.
We are no longer captive to commercial entities. Do not accept ads.
You've been watching too much fake news. The Nazis were leftists just like Democrats, not far-right. They weren't even "nationalists" as fake news keeps claiming. It was the National SOCIALIST Party.
Political violence against the Nazi Party was wrong.
The More You Know (TM)
Less than 5% of the world can view it to start with. Waste of time.
That will make a change. Usually, they just make things free for anyone IN THE USA to watch.
It will just be a lot of "this content not available in your region" for most people anyway
They keep forgetting the "inter" part of "internet"
No - That's what you assume a conservative would say based out your bias
Pushing ads in faces is not free. It comes at the cost of wasting time and pissing people off. It may be their website but luring people in with enticing videos only to shove ads in their faces is rude as hell. Having to pay off every individual website you use to avoid this is epidemic.. a disease..This is the reason many of us left cable television. In the 1980's, it was ads between and at intermission of a show. Now its more ads than show... brain damage inducing.
The Internet was designed for information and resource sharing -- a cooperative endeavor. The web enhanced this. However now instead of cooperative sharing, we have others taking control of our computers and, using our computation resources for their own desires, and shoving things we don't want in our faces. And we have to pay them off, each individually, to get them to stop.... and that often only partially works.
We need something to replace the web. We need a decentralized mesh network into which we can share files, videos, programs, etc. without the need for some big company's servers. As it is, they are using our computers in order to get money -- with absolutely no regard for what they do to us.
Or have I just imagined one?
It looks like the subscription model has failed and YouTube is reverting.
That's interesting because I see the TV and magazine revenue structure returning whereby we subscribe AND view ads.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The Nazi's called themselves socialists for marketing reasons.
No one wants socialism beyond a few hundred goofballs.
Some of us do want things we all need to be socialized, like roads and bridges and courts and national defense and oh wait those things already are.
Socialism, the BIG SCARY WORD fake conservatives use when they want to pretend they know things.
Posting AC to preserve moderation.
You're a fucking retard.
"Available for free" is acceptable.
"Available free" is not acceptable.
"Available freely" is acceptable.
Learn what an adverb is before you fucking spout off. I'm sick of you clowns chopping off the "ly" or "ily" from adverbs and just pretending adjectives are adverbs.
Calling the people who killed the Nazis is not.
Or do you think the men sent to die held the same progressive lgbtq agenda as the modern left does?
Either way it was a disingenuous remark I was replying to and you know it.