YouTube to start offering a subscription service - YouTube Red

YouTube has announced a new monthly subscription service called "YouTube Red". The first thing they should probably spend that subscription money on is a new marketing department who can offer up a name that doesn't draw parallels to another sort of entertainment website

The service is intended to offer ad-free content as well as exclusive videos from the likes of *insert 'just shut up and take my money' image here* CollegeHumor, Rooster Teeth and Pewdiepie.

What does everyone think about this? Personally, unless the content is stellar (and judging by the people mentioned in the press releases, I doubt it), this doesn't seem like it will catch on, especially since ad-block plus is still a thing. But, hey, I might be wrong, there's probably loads of Pewdiepie fans who will offer up some money to get extra content.

I'm suprised they decided to name it that. There is an adult video site already called RedTube. I suspect there will be alot of people that accidentally stumble onto the other.

I'm totally not in the target market for this, but even if I was I have a hard time seeing it as worthwhile for a small amount of "premium" videos and a removal of ads.

I do have a bad feeling that they're going to greatly increase the amount of advertisements on the free side in order to make the subscription seem more valuable.

YouTube made $4 billion in revenue last year and...broke even.

Still, not sure this is the way to go. As a brand it is powerful and even if it doesn't make money for Google right now it is THE video site everyone goes to.

I am not interested in yet ANOTHER monthly subscription fee. A lot of what I view on YouTube is not anything that couldn't be hosted elsewhere. A lot of movie trailers are hosted elsewhere but I often find YouTube convenient. Not sure that convenience is worth money. I was watching similar content before YouTube existed and paid zero dollars for it as well.

I get why their doing it, I just don't think asking millennials to pay for content they're used to getting for free is going to work.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos, but I'd never pay for the short-form content I consume. Now, if this is the beginning of quality original content, they'd I'd consider it down the road.

This monthly subscription trend with everything is reaching critical mass....

I think most people probably use ad blockers anyway. Will video creators get a cut of the subscriptions?

Currently I watch youtube daily but there isn't anything on there worth paying for.

I pay a subscription to Hulu and still have to put up with commercials but I'm getting actual TV shows a day or two after they air, not web videos that guys do from their garage of them screaming at a game or cute animal videos taken on an iphone. I can't see the value for me, here but if someone like Markiplier or Ssundee were put behind a pay wall my son would pull a knife on me until I agreed to pay whatever fee they charged.

They gave me this basically for free because I was already a subscriber to Google Play Music.

It's a nice bonus as an add to a service I was already paying for. Now there's no ads on mobile instead of just where I have adblocker installed.

Also, downloading videos from within the official Youtube app is nice, though I'm not honestly sure if that's Red specific or if I just noticed it at the same time as the Red service started.