YouTube Premium thread SEE OP

antimatterx

They're wise to us

5starpool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324569#Comment_123324569

Same. That's a ridiculous % increase. Nearly 60%.

Ush1

Price harmonization

_John C

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324656#Comment_123324656

No chance of them dropping the Irish price though

Grab All Association

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123307252#Comment_123307252

My girlfriend pays for my YouTube premium, Disney, Spotify, Netflix etc

Before anyone says i should share the burden, I'm more a Sky Q, Bluray/VHS type of guy. There's enough blurays, VHS tapes and 2TB HDD on my Sky box to entertain me. I rarely use these services.

I was listening to music a few months ago on the phone. Didn't I hear then "feels like a dream feels like magic" Temu advert.

I queried her about it and she said yeah sometimes she sees adverts.

For a couple of weeks it was fine again. Then Tuesday there was a 90+ second row of ads that weren't skip-able.

If you Google "YouTube premium showing ads" it will show you a load of reddit and Google forum complaints about this. I reckon they are selling ad space at a premium and targeting paid subscribers intentionally. When you complain to them they claim logging in and out will solve the issue, but i bet they don't compensate those who have seen ads.

I can't complain personally as I'm getting it free.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324761#Comment_123324761

I'd say Google targeting subscribers deliberately is just nonsense. I've been on YouTube premium for years now, it happens super rarely that ads appear. Maybe once a year, if even.

I've had similar happen for games that I have subscription for too, very rarely an ad will sneak in. Just shows their default is show ads, and premium removes it.

Simi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324569#Comment_123324569

Wow that's a huge increase, almost 2x the Polish rise in percentage terms

TheDriver

Utter greed. I wonder where it'll just be too expensive, like disney and netflix.

The only thing making it okish is that youtube music is included and not far off spotify.

muloc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324381#Comment_123324381

Has Turkey price gone up?

54and56

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123325191#Comment_123325191

Well that's one way to look at it. Pricing is a tricky issue to navigate. All businesses want to maximise revenue and ultimately profitability but there's always a trade off between having a high volume of users at a low price and fewer users at a higher price as some users get priced away from the service. Happened to me with Sky a few years ago. They pushed another €10 monthly increase and I just decided it wasn't worth it at all so terminated my account, installed free to air satelite and haven't regretted it.

I recall an Economics lecturer simplifying the pricing decision as follows:

"Never charge less than someone is prepared to pay"

Netflix are finding out how much people are actually prepared to pay. They will keep pushing pricing up until the marginal increase in revenue from price increases is less than the lost revenue from subscribers ceasing to use the service. Then and only then they'll have found the optimum price.

ECookie13

This has turned into whack a mole with pricing, every cheap country rises every few months. Not worth the hassle nearly I think.

Fabio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324569#Comment_123324569

Not far off Poland prices.

Nigzcurran

Getting to the point where I think I'll have to dump the family plan and just go for the individual one to keep the brat happy as he lives on you tube so definitely needs it. The rest of the family members are just bumming along for free for the last few years so they'll have to figure something else out

Romero

Got the Poland increase this morning going hold off pressing the accept button until the April charge goes through next Friday

Del007

Romanis is €11, got charged yesterday

thos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123319187#Comment_123319187

I signed up for Poland but then got “Your YouTube Premium membership was canceled because we believe the signup country of Poland was inaccurate.”

Where did I go wrong?

I had been using Peru or somewhere before that