Comment by usefulcat
3 days ago
No one if forcing them to use ads for revenue; they could choose to start charging directly for the content. Seems to be working ok for Netflix.
3 days ago
No one if forcing them to use ads for revenue; they could choose to start charging directly for the content. Seems to be working ok for Netflix.
The same Netflix that started offering an ad-supported tier that's climbed to 190M global users?
Yes, the same Netflix that gets ~90% of it's income from subscriptions.
I never claimed that ads can't be profitable; I was responding to a commenter who implied that ads are necessary in order to have a viable streaming business, which is very obviously not the case.
And you're comparing YouTube and Netflix here, as similar (enough) streaming services that could use the same business model?