I’m not surprised. YouTube has a constant stream of new material, curated to each user’s exact interests. And more back catalogue than you could watch in a thousand lifetimes. It’s definitely the service I use the most.
If you curate your Youtube experience decently by subbing to worthwhile creators only it’s damn high quality content.
Never paying Youtube a single cent though. I’ll consider donating to the creators directly (or buying from their store) if their efforts are sufficient.
This is the way. The key is to ignore the clickbait, politics, low-effort content, and sensational bullshit, and just go after stuff you really like.
There’s even videos for every schedule. We seem to be back to 30-50 minute videos these days, but there are still some micro channels around. Like “Sandwiches of History”, where every video is at most two minutes.
most of thier income comes from sources outside of youtube: brand promotion, promotions, patreon. all because youtube wants more share of ad revenue. also alot of youtubers eventually turns out to be pos in the end, or they become to preachy and political.
also alot of youtubers eventually turns out to be pos in the end
Massive generalisation there. I bet you could give me a list of five YouTubers who’s that’s happened to and I will guarantee it that I never subscribe to their content in the first place.
That’s when you stop supporting them
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads. Many of the competitors have paid options that still include ads.
Whether or not Premium is worth it is another debate entirely, but the fact of the matter is that it is simply a better deal compared to other streaming services.
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads
I like that I get music too. I honestly don’t mind my Premium subscription, I get decent value out of it for the amount of content I view. I just wish creators saw more of that money.
Am i wrong to think a premium view is worth a thousand non premium in revenue?
I think YouTube has said that Premium, formally Red, viewers do count more for ad revenue and other things like that for creators than free viewers. A streamer I follow I think said they were worth 5x for him
I need all these premium users to listen to my music lol
And a portion of your money goes to the creators you watch, and you get YouTube music included. I always say if you’re gonna pay for one service, the one that makes the most sense is YouTube.
There’s a lot to shit on yt for. But they do actually pay people real money for their work. It’s still surprising to me after all these years.
not neccesarily, not as much as you think, otherwise they wont be relying on brand deal, promotions and patreon. most of thier income comes from them.
Seemingly every video still includes sponsor segments. I use ublock origin with sponsorblock and actually see zero ads.
Correctly configure ad blockers will also get you an ad free experience and without that pesky monthly payment.
You’re not wrong, but that is not the point I was making.
Adblocking YouTube is 100% the best option. I agree there. But if someone does want to pay for membership then YouTube is, by far, the best deal. Their competitors are absolutely horrendous.
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads
Oh hey, me too, except I would never pay for premium. I just don’t use the official front-end.
you can use adblock, instead of paying. ALso the ADs are so intrusive you have no choice to use ublock origin.
Don’t sleep on the free movies.
As someone who is constantly on YouTube and has been since the pre-Google era, their algorithm is
shitnow. It keeps giving me the same crap over and over and even though I click Not Interested, I continue to get things I don’t want to see. WTFThe only new things it recommends is alt right stuff or closely related alt right. I’m good with getting the same recommendations…
Yup. I’ve built a system where I tell it every video “not interested” after searching 1 topic. It literally doesn’t give two shits about all the subs I have with content I’m actually interested in. It’s like “oh shit you watched that one popular video, time to fill your entire feed with ADHD shorts and slop bullshit. We’re just going to ignore your historical data completely”
I’ve definitely noticed this, you watch one or two videos that are from a popular genre, and all of a sudden that’s half your recommendations. I’ve found the “not interested” option does work though.
They do have a lot of viewing history to work with though.
That happens when you are subscribed too, it seems to heavily prefer showing you content (even from channels you are subscribed to) that matches the last few videos you watched.
YouTube has a subscriptions feed that shows videos only from channels you follow.
I’ve found that turning the watch history off results in more accurate and relevant recommended videos from videos you watch from your subscribed channels.
When the recommended videos suddenly go off kilter, it’s telling that the video you’re watching is somehow related to the weird side of YouTube.
I’m just gonna not pay for anything, pirate everything and use an ablocker and clients to get Youtube for free.
I don’t really care about being morally right. I’m just going to steal as much content as possible without giving any kind of a shit forever, unironically.
For your phone there is revanced manager for yt, yt music and Spotify and many other tinkered apps for your entertainment.
Disney also owned April’s top streaming title, Grey’s Anatomy, which notched 3.9 billion viewing minutes and benefited from its multichannel and multiplatform availability.
WTF how are so many people still watching this show agter 20+ years? I honestly find this pretty shocking.
Because merideth Grey is HER. Girl can deliver 20 ccs of hopes and dreams directly to our hearts and souls.
Rip my fantasies for Cristina yang comeback tho.
well, even if every person on earth watched it, theres hundreds of thousands of new people being born every day who havent. thats not even counting rewatchers
arnt they still ongoing, they hard a large number of season.
Nielsen = king of guessamation
It’s an educated wish.
What are people even watching on Disney all day? I assume it’s just a constant stream of cartoons for toddlers?
And sports:
Disney’s 0.2 point gain over March was partly driven by cross-network coverage of the NFL Draft, the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship and the first round of the NBA Playoffs.
The chart isn’t about streaming services, but companies. So this is covering everything that is owned by Disney, which includes broadcast and cable channels in addition to Disney+, and probably Hulu and maybe even other things that I’m not even aware of.
Conversely what is there to watch on YouTube? I mean I obviously have seen video on you tube of one kind or another, but it’s never been a place to go to watch a TV show or movie.
YouTube is basically where all the science and engineering content has moved to. How it’s made, megafactories, air crash investigation, if you enjoyed that type of content, it’s now on YouTube.
Pretty much all travel content that is not people cosplaying as rich people is also on there. And for those who prefer something more varied than the traditional sports and don’t have the patience for live streams on Twitch pretty much all the edited gaming related content is on Youtube too. And of course the other documentary/educational topics besides science and engineering like mathematics, geography, history,…
I watch a ton of automotive centric channels, hobbyist electronics/PC/home automation/3D printing channels and a few weird niche ones like drain cleaning and dashcams, stuff you would never see (or has never been viable) on TV at least without a bunch of product placement and manufactured drama.
For TV and movies I have my own media server and I just download the stuff I, or friends and family, want to watch but I think the experience, content, and presentation is quite different than what you find on Youtube. They fill different roles for me personally as one is pure entertainment while the other is a mix of educational and entertainment in typically shorter formats.
I am not sure why I got downvoted: your use case is exactly what I was thinking. And the other person who responded to me as well: you tube is watched a lot, but the content is largely like apples to oranges compared to say HBO or even Tubi.
Perhaps your comment wasn’t clear. People probably saw your first sentence and clicked the down-arrow. There are tons of great videos to watch on YT obviously, in nearly any facet of life you can think of. I watch many things that would bore others, but that’s part of the deep. rich sea of content that YT has.
Do I go there to watch network-style shows and movies. Hell no. But I don’t frequent Disney, either.
It may be the phrasing in your original comment. It sounds like you’re questioning why anyone would watch videos on YouTube rather than questioning why YouTube is lumped in with traditional streaming service rankings.
Almost anything you could want to watch is on yt in some form or another. Or listen to, it seems like every song ever made is on it too.
Most of what I would want to watch is definitely not on youtube. Although most of what I want to watch that is on YouTube is not on a pay channel. They seem apples to oranges to me, which is what I was driving at.
I wonder if they count listening to music with still image as “watching”.
I find it hard to believe most of what you watch can’t be found on yt in some way. Unless it’s non english rare tv shows or something.
I assume any .mp4 is something watched, so music videos would count.
Really? Does it have the latest episodes of Doctor who, the rehearsal, or last of us? How about old shows like star trek Voyager?
Probably yeah
No. None of those things are on YouTube.
I mostly watch true crime and arts and crafts. I’m learning how to paint using yt.
How much attention is paid? I frequently throw on YouTube for background noise. I only hit up Netflix or Disney if I actually want to watch something. I bet I’m not alone.
Totally makes sense. I either watch YouTube or shows/movies I own on my Emby server.
Interesting chart. Note that this is eyeballs, not profits or subscriber numbers. YouTube is free. Most all of the other services are paid, even when subscribing with ads.
Also there’s no WBD channel, so this is lumping all channels by conglomerate ownership. It would be interesting to see this by channel. Hulu viewership is being lumped in with Disney, I assume. Tubi and Pluto bolstering Fox? and Paramount numbers.
There is a paid version, and it’s good value for money in my view.
I would probably pay for Youtube if they stopped sabotaging their own platform and making it worse (e.g. adding shorts, releasing those horrible Rewind videos, preventing playlists with “content made for kids” (e.g. every music video of a song from some Disney movie), mixing in unrelated content into the search results,…).
While I agree, in terms of actual streaming performance and the player, YouTube hasn’t made that worse yet and I hope they never do.
YouTube is very impressive from a technical perspective, regardless of the user experience.
I haven’t seen one of those Rewind videos in years, are they still a thing?
A free user viewing an ad is profitable though, so I would say that’s what the other streaming services get wrong, there is no free option even though their lowest option usually has ads.
youtubes also a place for people to binge on right wing content, that youtube love to push, when your not logging in, it can get people hooked easily.
I have never understood people who just watch whatever is served up to them. It’s like they go out of their way not to have a preference.
If you actually curate your content it’s actually a pretty nice experience and it’s been consistently a nice experience for well over a decade. All the crap YouTube pull mostly affects people who use it not logged in. Also install sponsor blocker.
Where VLC ?
I do wonder where Twitch would appear on this chart. Is it wayyyyyy under? Or does it not count as “TV”?
I don’t view YouTube as competing with Disney or Netflix. It does compete in a “only so much time in the day” sense, but then there are a lot of things to look at.
. . . So?
