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View Poll Results: Would you pay for access to a high quality YouTube channel? | |||
I would not pay for anything on YouTube. | 44 | 70.97% | |
I would pay less than $4/mo for quality video journalism. | 5 | 8.06% | |
I would pay more than $4/mo for quality video journalism. | 2 | 3.23% | |
I refuse to pay for any content. | 11 | 17.74% | |
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-17-2014, 10:47 PM | #1 |
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/Drive+ a YouTube Automotive Show (subscription req.)
/Drive is now going to be showing only 3-4min teasers of their car reviews and features that will show on /Drive+, their subscription channel. The channel will be $4/month or $40/year for a subscription. If you don't subscribe to /Drive (they just hit 1M subscribers last month, btw), or just aren't familiar with the name, you've probably at least seen a few /Chris Harris on cars videos being posted all over automotive sites. They also have a few other shows that you may or may not have seen such as: /Tuned (Matt Farah) They've had some interesting series features such as: There are interview/talk shows that will remain free: They're claiming that if not enough people subscribe they'll have to close up shop, but that if this is successful they should be able to do more than they are currently. Many of us say that we'd be happy to only pay for the content we like when asked about cable TV and movies. Does that apply to YouTube content as well, even if it's produced at a TV-level quality and provided without commercials?
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08-17-2014, 10:55 PM | #2 |
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I paid for the annual membership for $40, which they then scrapped. I'm still willing to pay $4/mo because I watch the **** out of their videos and I know how much of a grinning idiot Chris Harris' videos make me.
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08-17-2014, 10:56 PM | #3 |
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Doh, I missed where they dropped the $40/year.
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08-17-2014, 10:57 PM | #4 |
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I'm on the trial now.
I'm not sure I believe their crybaby financial troubles. YouTube partners make bank, and and the majority of vehicles and trips are provided to automotive journalists by manufacturers. |
08-17-2014, 11:01 PM | #5 |
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Love /tuned but find Chris Harris a serious bore, everything is compared to a 911 zzzzzz.
I would not be able to justify $4 a month on drive, thats half the cost of a netflix account. |
08-17-2014, 11:03 PM | #6 | |
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I don't pay for cable because I don't want 50 channels of garbage I have no interest in. As someone who has always wanted to select and pay for individual channels or content, I see this as right up my alley.
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I do agree that when you compare it to Netflix, it's a ripoff. Then when I remember it's $1/week for a channel, I forget to give a ****. People pay over $100 on Comcast and don't think twice about it. And don't tell me how much more content you get when you're using 1/100th of it. |
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08-17-2014, 11:04 PM | #7 |
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How long is the trial, sky?
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08-17-2014, 11:16 PM | #8 |
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14 days.
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08-17-2014, 11:46 PM | #9 |
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I have no idea what this even is.
Eurojax for president. |
08-18-2014, 12:30 AM | #10 |
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I love the /Chris Harris on cars videos. Matt Farrah is a little too sensational for me. I especially enjoyed Chris Harris' review of the Morgan Three Wheeler.
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08-18-2014, 12:32 AM | #11 |
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Matt Farrah is an idiot. His vocabulary consists of about 20 words.
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08-18-2014, 02:22 AM | #12 |
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I pay more for cigarettes in a month, but $4/month for YouTube content is not agreeable by principle. I only really like Chris Harris - maybe if I liked some of the other 'shows' I'd consider paying for it.
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08-18-2014, 02:26 AM | #13 |
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$4/month over a million subscribers, that serious dollar bucks. Something they didn't have before and still produced the shows.
Since they are monetizing the show, they might as well take on advertisers and offset the cost, which IMO isn't worth it as is. The yearly actually makes better financial sense to me. How many people will keep a full years subscription, vs a one time $40 bucks in the bank up front? Sent from my Nexus 7 using NASIOC mobile app |
08-18-2014, 02:33 AM | #14 |
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I don't think the million subscribers was for the 4 dollar a month Drive plus. I think it is for the free version of drive.
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08-18-2014, 02:59 AM | #15 | |
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08-18-2014, 04:32 AM | #16 |
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if you want to kill some time
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...+Blog#topicTop and no, I´m not paying a ****ing dime. If they succeed in a year everything will cost a dollar, or ten. |
08-18-2014, 08:36 AM | #17 | ||
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An article by Chris Harris on why they're doing this:
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08-18-2014, 10:37 AM | #18 |
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The lower speed classes are boring, yes, but I don't know why he says it takes 5 years to go faster, you can switch to a higher class the very next time you go provided you aren't a douchebag and get DQed for going too fast (or too slow), and have a car prepped for it.
I did the 110 class the very first time and ever since then I have been in higher classes (usually no faster than the 120 class because Evos and Subarus aren't very happy above 140mph). |
08-18-2014, 10:49 AM | #19 |
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I will pay for web content but there is a fine line. I do have a hard time paying for a singular YouTube channel that I only, at best, infrequently watched...
Now if they were ofering a overall premium YouTube package that had other content for the 4 dollarbucks a month then we'd be talking. [You'd think that someone would have thought of this already] |
08-18-2014, 11:33 AM | #20 |
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I am a paying subscriber for Drive+ but I will say that the 1+ million subscribers to Drive are absolutely getting screwed. Now they just upload 2 min teasers to the channel with so many subs is now worthless.
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08-18-2014, 12:25 PM | #21 |
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This is the groupon effect. One a retailer marks a product down to get people to try it, people will associate the product only being worthwhile at that price point. You were free for two years, not you want people to pay for the same content. That is just a hard sell, especially when the host are not unique to that platform. What are you really paying for then? Remember when HULU went from completely free to premium? People were pissed, viewership plummeted. They had to still supply good content for free to get people to subscribe down the line. You can't just do this overnight.
I have a feeling they will get a nice bump in subscribers about 4-5 months from now, but that content isn't even completely shot yet, so the value of + just isn't there. In my worthless opinion, they jumped the gun on launching the pay channel without fully understanding what the premium content is. They scrambled with what they had in the can and that just isn't the way to convince people the premium is worth it. They will survive, if they are smart enough with the pitches they have |
08-18-2014, 01:10 PM | #22 | |
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Oh BTW, i'd pay for it just because I support the cool stuff they do. Not really because of getting to see the full show. |
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08-18-2014, 01:32 PM | #23 |
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I've been watching their shows for a while now and they are really well done, good quality and some pretty great content. But I can't justify paying $4/month for one single show when a service like Netflix is $8/month and you get hundreds of thousands shows.
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