The only way that's ever happened in history is to turn a free-to-view service funded by advertising into a subscription one with advertising as a supplementary funding mechanism. It's what satellite and cable television did and I suspect YouTube is slowing moving toward by making the free service so frustrating that their viewers will beg to pay.
Every company has three books. The actual numbers, the ones shown to investors, and the public numbers. This is why money laundering can be done so easily
When YouTube had all the keys and Advertisers had to play by their game was when they had all the advantages. Then Mama Susan played the short game giving advertisers more control and fucked up everything. Now they've been chasing revenue uphill instead of having the advertisers coming to them to use their platform under their control.
Become dominant within the domain by offering an excellent product: host video forever, fast bandwidth, algorithmic boosting and suggestions, automatic captions, revenue sharing.
Gain monopoly levels of market share. Competition runs out of money.
Turn the screws. Take away what people were used to getting for free and charge for it.
Each different way to make things worse is a potential revenue stream.
Did I say new business model? This doesn't look too different from Standard Oil style predatory pricing to force competitors into bankruptcy.
They really are obsessed with making the viewing experience as annoying and disruptive as possible
CIA-ESG moneys running out?
More like they've reached the size of their market, but need to expand or show they are expanding to get investors or big advertising.
The only way that's ever happened in history is to turn a free-to-view service funded by advertising into a subscription one with advertising as a supplementary funding mechanism. It's what satellite and cable television did and I suspect YouTube is slowing moving toward by making the free service so frustrating that their viewers will beg to pay.
Since they deliberately hid basic bitch features like background play on their app behind the pay wall, I tend to agree.
I'm confused what hasn't happened in history.
I still want someone to explain to me why a company the size and magnitude of Google requires investors.
Every company has three books. The actual numbers, the ones shown to investors, and the public numbers. This is why money laundering can be done so easily
It delights (them) to have someone else to pay for making their goy slop propagandas
When YouTube had all the keys and Advertisers had to play by their game was when they had all the advantages. Then Mama Susan played the short game giving advertisers more control and fucked up everything. Now they've been chasing revenue uphill instead of having the advertisers coming to them to use their platform under their control.
It's the new business model.
Did I say new business model? This doesn't look too different from Standard Oil style predatory pricing to force competitors into bankruptcy.