For $10 a month, you can have
ad free YouTube and watch YouTube videos off line (but perhaps only on mobile
devices ?) And listen to programs in the background (think streaming music). I think you can do all of this free now, if
you know the correct add-on programs to download or add to your browser.
A good reason to join might
be access to Google Music, 30 million songs that you can listen to for free (with subscription). If
you are already a Google Music member, you will be ‘rolled free” into the new
YouTube Red.
I figured this would
eventually come, offering unlimited free space to upload your videos couldn’t last
forever, Google was forced to find a strong reason to continue adding storage space, and
subscription revenue from subscribers would be just that. And YouTube would need some sort
of location for new and original content to compete with the likes of NetFlix, and others are
slowly choking the reasons to have so-called “cable TV" in one's home.
In some future age, I predict
a super high speed Wi-Fi, perhaps broadcast from existing cell towers, will be
supplied to households for $20 a month and thus end most people’s need for cable at all. They
will be able to use this super-speed Wi-Fi for everything (with some
sub-subscriptions like YouTube Red and NetFlix, and sports channels). Progressive nations, like Great Britain
and others, will probably offer this new high speed Wi-Fi for free, buying it
in bulk for all 60 million of their citizens at a much lower price than selling
it one person (or household) at a time. Free Wi-Fi is already cropping up in some American
city centers, maybe someday all will have to have to be competitive in
attracting new industries (i.e. jobs). The question is which government or commercial business will end up paying for it.
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