David Pierce

I sort of understand the pricing dynamics of YouTube TV.

Sure.

Right, there's a bunch of big companies that spend a bunch of money on content and YouTube has to pay them just like a cable system has to pay them.

YouTube premium is just turning off the ads on YouTube.

And the ads on YouTube make YouTube a lot of money.

They do not make the creators a lot of money.

And YouTube does not pay creators high enough rates to subsist.

They all have to do brand deals.

I keep ranting about this like almost every weekend.

Like the YouTube economy, the cost structures are so upside down that all these creators basically have to run little ad agencies.

And more power to them.

Go do it.

It's a hard business to run and a lot of them are real successful at it.

But YouTube raising the rates to turn off the ads only benefits YouTube.

Like, straightforwardly, the creators are not going to get more money.

And that sucks.

Like at least when YouTube TV raises the rates, I'm like, yeah, like some Hollywood masters of the universe smoke cigars in a room and they demanded more money and they got it.

YouTube's in a fight with Disney.

It's like, that's what normally happens.

And it's like, I hope you all kill each other.