I can personally stomach the occasional ad to save $10 a month.:) Granted, I don't use YT for much except for game trailers, the occasional game help video, and listening to music. The official trailers don't have ads, the game help ones do if they come from big sites, and the music I listen to tends to be compilations that are 1-4 hours long so 15 second ads aren't that big a deal, and I never see the pop up ones because I minimize the window.:)

@BlackPanther. The idea of paying for YouTube, a website I have used for years for free, does sound very alien to me. However I appreciate the fact that you intelligently explained your points.

For me, I don't watch enoughh YT to use the Red service, I don't mind the odd ad. But for some (mostly younger?) gamers who consume most of their content through it, it makes sense. If I decide to pay for a music streaming service then Google Music being included does add value.

In short, whilst YouTube Red is not for me right now, as long as ads are not being increased for the free service, then I think it's good to offer different business models. This is the world of tech and gaming and possibly the future of TV - things are going to change!

LMAO

Hey, how working in Google corporation is like?

Hmmm...I have to work about 12 minutes to make $10. The number of ads I see on YT in a month amount to less time than that. Personally, I don't see how stomaching the occasional 15-30 second ad is so bad that it's worth spending $10 a month to remove. If content creators want to throw in lots of crappy pop up ads on their videos to take away from their own work, and try to make some money on that, then they probably aren't something I'd want to watch anyways. I personally don't subscribe to videos that have more than one initial ad at the beginning.

The music aspect is all good and fine, but since all the music I would want to listen to is available on YT for the low price of free or with the occasional ad, I'm set. The rest of my music consumption comes from buying CD's so the artist makes money from that. OTOH, how many freaking music services do I need to subscribe to to get my music content? One is enough IMO, and I don't even do that, because again, I buy my music, and listen to the free stuff already available around the web....and no, I don't mean I pirate music.

I can already download YT videos. Been doing it for years through various different apps. I like doing it for some of the fan made trailers or AMV's out there, and you know what, not a single one of them has ads on their content. I also stream them to my TV or even my mobile device using my PC as a server, or simply copy the file over since I can convert it to any media type I like.

The unique content isn't all that compelling, and I find it hard to use that as justification for the price. Just because it has some unique content doesn't mean it's worth paying for.

If you find it a great deal, more power to you. If you use Google Play, then it's probably worth getting. But for the most part, it's not really all that it's cracked up to be. I'll be happy to revisit it and ignore it in the future, because I"m tired of the plethora of services that keep popping up which don't offer any kind of ownership to the end user.