praveensudhakaran
TF Premier
Tried paying for Youtube Premium using Amex card and it is not an option. So Amex is not accepted for Google services?
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amex not accepted for youtube premium
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Gaara
TF Ace
Accepted payment methods on YouTube: Asia Pacific - India - YouTube Help
BHIM UPI Discover Google Play Balance MasterCard Visa Note: You must use a form of paym
support.google.com
the_collector
TF Premier
Buy Amazon GV via amex gyftr and then buy Google play vouchers via Amazon pay.
You'll get max benefit out of this for your transaction
Or maybe use youtube vanced 👀
Don't give money to leechers.
Don't give money to leechers.
praveensudhakaran
TF Premier
Why angry reactions?
Did I ask anything wrong?
praveensudhakaran
TF Premier
Thank you, @Gaara
Accepted payment methods on YouTube: Asia Pacific - India - YouTube Help
BHIM UPI Discover Google Play Balance MasterCard Visa Note: You must use a form of paymsupport.google.com
I didn't see this
0x5f3759df
TF Select
> YouTube takes a fixed 45% cut from the initial subscription amount and distributes 55% to content owners
If anything, watching content for free makes you the leecher, no?
That's peanuts for them compared to the advertising revenue that they get.
Youtube, netflix their origin promise was to be better and cheaper than cable tv, but they've gone down the same path with inflated prices.
the_collector
TF Premier
I find YT premium at 100/month , well worth it. I watch YouTube extensively and now come to think of it , I can't watch it with ads.
Plus I use YT music as my main music streaming service too. So it's plus all around.
To add to that, I've taken the family plan, where I can share the subscription with 5 members which makes it absolutely worth it.
Plus the peace of mind of not having a modded app installed from a 3rd party site is well worth the price paid for premium
Ps - I realise I used worth it a lot, but you get the emotion
0x5f3759df
TF Select
> Creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) are eligible to earn money from ads displayed on their videos. The revenue generated from YPP ads is split between YouTube and the creator. YouTube typically keeps 45% of the revenue, and the remaining 55% goes to the creator.
The annual pricing for YT Premium is 1,299. You consider supporting creators + YouTube Music for Rs. 100/mo inflated?
No content creater starts content creation for the sake of generating revenue from premium memberships.
That 45:55 model you just explained is set by youtube to justify the premium membership only.
Basically youtube is the only gainer here, where they charge users for content which never costed them a single dime. 💀
That 45:55 model you just explained is set by youtube to justify the premium membership only.
Basically youtube is the only gainer here, where they charge users for content which never costed them a single dime. 💀
0x5f3759df
TF Select
Video delivery and hosting is notoriously expensive, which is why YouTube has no competitors. Around 3.7M new videos are uploaded to YouTube every day, plus 1 billion hours of video served to users each day.
Again as I said premium is not there major source of revenue, that would be ads and sponsorships.
Think about the tv model, you would've been charged for subscription from cable provider for channels you want to watch. Content creators were channel which involved production and distribution.
Now you are charged for the internet, for the youtube service, for xyz service. And constantly being harrased to support your creators by the company which putted this rigged system in place. 💀
Still peanuts for them.
So tomorrow facebook/instagram asks for premium subscription you're gonna buy it as well?
Next what, premium subscription for gmail?
And competitor is not around due to expensive services, it's not around due to predatory practices of google/youtube for killing the competition.
No wonder even the likes of bing have not been able to challenge google. It's straight forward sherlock
the_collector
TF Premier
I get where you're coming from.
But I don't think yt premium was ever sold as a way to support creators. They created the "join" button where you can support the creators directly.
Yt premium was targetted to remove ads. They're not making money of viewership( since the viewer won't get any ads) but instead charging for it the other way.
For occasional yt viewers and Spotify/apple music users, the fee may not be justified.
But then again, for a viewer who spends a lot of time on the platform and uses YT music, it's a no brainer.
It's a business at the end of the day, just because a service was completely free once doesn't mean it'll be free forever.
Jio started out by giving free sims for early adoption. They can't continue that can they? But they got users hooked enough to make them switch to the paid service.
I don't have a problem with the business, I understand it's business and they're providing convience.
I just have a problem of how they pretend to be initially, like disruptive free for all, messiah service.
Like jio is considered messiah for bringing affordable prices.
But all these are predatory practices which eventually kills the competition. Telecom sector which had many players now only have 3.
And coming to the original post, youtube is not accepting amex.
Like common they want to leech out 30% from third party developers on their play store. But don't want to pay for a payment provider(amex) which charges higher than visa/mastercard.
Like the audacity 💀
Like common they want to leech out 30% from third party developers on their play store. But don't want to pay for a payment provider(amex) which charges higher than visa/mastercard.
Like the audacity 💀
You could buy AGV/ASV using Amex Gyftr, and then recharge your google pay balance or buy a google play gift card and add it to your account and use that as a payment method. You need to add a debit card, but then you can set primary method as google play balance if it has enough balance in the account.
