YouTube To Give Us What We Want…..For A Price

I actually posed the following question on the Q92.3 Facebook page: how much would you pay a month for an internet that did not give you those ads?

You know, those ads everybody hates.

Well, YouTube has planned this out perfectly. Get us watching all kinds of different things, put a freaking ad on every video, wait for us to get sick of watching a 30-second ad just to watch a 30-second video (not every ad has the "Skip" link on it), and then announce their "premium" service.

YouTube as it stands is free. But starting tomorrow you can throw YouTube some coin and say goodbye to those ads forever. It is similar to what Hulu recently did, where for $7.99 a month I can watch all the shows I want with a few ads sprinkled in, or for $4 more a month I can get commercial-free Hulu.

Well, I am not paying $11.99 a month for Hulu to take away my bathroom and jack-and-Coke breaks from my favorite shows.

$10 a month for YouTube with no ads? That may be a little pricey. They are dangling "original content" as part of what you're paying for. This could mean new content, but it will probably mean taking things that are currently free and taking it away from you.

So enjoy those cat videos now for free while you can (sorry for any ads).

Q92.3's YouTube content will always be free, by the way.