Would you say that Google admitted that not enough people will pay for Youtube premium to be a profitable business so they had to get into ads?

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kgwgk 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I doubt anyone would say that given that they got into ads years before giving people the option to pay.

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aurareturn 15 hours ago | parent [-]

But the same logic applies. Youtube is not profitable without ads and would shut down.

	▲	array_key_first 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, probably, but then again YouTube is entertainment and Google never claimed to be fixing the world and whatever. Also they're not sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars.

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varenc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My personal theory: Youtube ads exist as just a punishment to beat you into paying for premium. As in, while the ads make some money, their primary purpose is to motivate you to pay. And that a subscriber generates meaningful more revenue than the ads sales of a non-subscriber.

It seems plausible to me, since I get so many low quality poorly targeted ads on repeat. I can't imagine those ads are generating much revenue, but it makes sense if their primary purpose is just to beat me into paying for a subscription.

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landedgentry 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Youtube premium is not claiming AGI to justify a certain valuation.

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aurareturn 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t think OpenAI has claimed they have AGI?

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kgwgk 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe not having it but being really close to that and knowing how to build it. "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies."

	▲	aurareturn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hasn't the happened? Plenty of companies are working and experimenting with agents.