as a household we struggled to move from Spotify to YouTube Premium\u2019s<\/a> included music subscription, which means we do still pay two separate subscriptions because Spotify is just a nice UI. Let\u2019s talk about why YouTube Premium, I still think, is worth it.<\/p>\nIs YouTube Premium worth \u20ac29.99 per month?<\/p>\n
Honestly I have to open by saying no. I don\u2019t think any tech platform is worth \u20ac29.99 per month. However I do have a value on my time and what YouTube Premium does is remove ads, which is giving me some of my time back.<\/p>\n
However this is absolutely massive. Increasingly creators are finding new ways to inject ads into the content that you watch. Just like Spotify Premium is supposed to be ad-free when listening to a podcast, the creators will typically have sponsors that they need to mention. When watching YouTube creators those videos are often peppered with product placement and native ads to the content the creator makes. Now YouTube Premium does include the Jump Ahead feature, which I use on nearly every single ad, but it still feels like I\u2019m paying for ad-free while getting ads.<\/p>\n
The one saving grace is that they\u2019re skippable.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how this ends<\/p>\n
For years I\u2019ve coined the phrase \u201cdeath by a thousand cuts\u201d and I\u2019m increasingly confused as to where this all ends. Perhaps it started with everybody having a Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and Disney Plus subscription and now you have to choose between two of those. Maybe next year you\u2019re choosing between one of them but eventually surely this becomes a discussion about not having digital subscriptions at all.<\/p>\n
Piracy is almost certainly on the increase again as people learn how to create their own home-hosted services, with those services becoming easier than ever to build in your own home. I find the all likelihood will be that Spotify once thrived because they created a middle ground between piracy and legitimacy. Once again the market is rife for a disruptor to make that middle ground again.<\/p>\n
I will say I\u2019m fuming that ever increase passes me by with my not cancelling. And that day surely will come sooner rather than later where I\u2019ve had enough. Perhaps I\u2019m just at the point where I admit, you should quit. Don\u2019t do as I do, do as I say. Save your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a YouTube Premium customer. It\u2019s one of those subscriptions I regularly tell myself, and anyone that will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-599778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}